can i get a solicitor to help my case of not leaving the UK?

Original post:

I received a letter from the home office to leave the UK and I do not want as I have stayed in the UK for 4 years. So I went to see a solicitor to help me and I was being told to give reasons to stay in the UK. So the question is what reasons I should write or give to the home office that would help me stay in the country?

{Mod note} Editing your post is against out rules, the original post made sense. the edited post did not.

If you left you would miss Queen E's 140th year reign celebration?

Wimbledon?

Bangers and mash?

I received a letter from the home office to leave the UK and I do not want as I have stayed in the UK for 4 years. So I went to see a solicitor to help me and I was being told to give reasons to stay in the UK. So the question is what reasons I should write or give to the home office that would help me stay in the country?

How would we know this. It is your life.

Tell them you developed a taste for Jellied eel, warm beer and mushy peas.

Tell them you developed a taste for warm beer and mushy peas. And Jellied Eel.

Devonshire cream

Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding with mashed potatoes

Bangers and mash

First what type of visa are you on. Why would they ask you to leave, did they give a reason, and have you talked to them.

Your legal adviser should know, if they are experienced in immigration to the reasons that the immigration want to hear. So what reasons did they say.

You explain your family relationships (if any) spouse, friends. You explain your work and how you are a productive member of society.
Show how you have purchased property (if you have) and so on.

Apparently we have another NooB that thinks is acceptable to change their posts... look at Tickles post #3 where they were quoted earlier saying something different.

Apparently we have another NooB that thinks is acceptable to change their posts... look at Tickles post #3 where they were quoted earlier saying something different.

And it thus appears that OP first wrote "can i get a solicitor to help ...". But now it reads that OP went to see a solicitor. In any case, OP should be aware that this site is not the right place to find a lawyer (i.e. a solicitor, in the UK) to retain. As a matter of fact, I believe we are prohibited from making personal contacts with potential clients on this site.

As well as those conditions and stipulations, as I read in their ORIGINAL post... "I received a letter from the home office to leave the UK and I do not want as I have stayed in the UK for 4 years." Tells me its their employer whom sent them to the UK temporarily to work for them wants them to return. Making it a very different situation. Not at all familiar with the UK on this, but it sounds strikingly similar to a H1B VISA holder in the USA that decides they want to stay... where that is not transferrable.

Their current situation and status could have a significant impact on what options are available to them.

It is a very good reason to stay in UK.. always something you can do.. besides drinking English Tea with Biscuit.

For my American friends.
The Home Office is the equivalent to your State Department.
This sounds more like a visa over stay situation or failure to obtain leave to remain, as the Home Office doesn't simply ask someone to leave without just cause.
Deportation is normally the next step, unless there are concrete and compelling reasons to remain.

For my American friends.
The Home Office is the equivalent to your State Department.
This sounds more like a visa over stay situation or failure to obtain leave to remain, as the Home Office doesn't simply ask someone to leave without just cause.
Deportation is normally the next step, unless there are concrete and compelling reasons to remain.

I am so glad CB you clarified. Now onward...

For my American friends.
The Home Office is the equivalent to your State Department.


I thought that the Foreign Office was equivalent to State and that the Home Office dealt with internal issues. But yes, I assumed this was an Immigration issue (which is why I moved it from Family Law).

Yes, you are indeed correct there Scott.
I wasn't too sure of the US version, I guess Homeland Security, maybe...