Dependants

A dependant's residency expires independently of the sponsor's, and nobody is reminded by the dependant themselves — so these are the expiries that get missed. Each is judged on their own nationality and their own documents.

• A visa waiver is time-limited. An exemption usually runs a fixed period from entry and resets on re-entry. Treating every exemption as open-ended means somebody stops being lawfully present with no warning at all.
• A pending application is tracked separately from current status. Both are true at once whenever somebody is covered today by one thing while an application for another is in flight — and the application is the part somebody has to chase.
• An appeal keeps a family resident. That is answered before any date arithmetic.
• Not required needs evidence, not inference. Where nationality is unrecorded the answer is *unknown*, never the comfortable guess.