British man with family in pakistan

Mohammad,

There are two options you could work on:

a) Under the current Home Office Nationality regulations, you qualify for a dual nationality, the easiest option is for you get your work visa stamped on your Pakistani passport and your wife and children will be issued a family visa later without any problems.

b) In case you have filed your wife's application for UK Residence as an accompanied spouse ( which after 4/5 years automatically qualify her for UK passport) , The Saudi High Commission in London should work out a method that your wife and kids join you in Saudi Arabia, but this option is workable only if you wife and family are already living with you in the UK.

thank you for you response and insight, unfortunately the first option is highly unlikely due to the limited time i have to travel to pakistan, apply for the pakistani passport and return to the UK in time for visa processing. The second option is not available to me as you have quite correctly stated my wife needs to be living with me, in the UK.

Mohammad Assalamo alakum,

This will confuse you, please concentrate on the next message.

Saudi work visa formalities take months in the UK so I suggest you do have some time to work out different options .Wish you good luck.