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Subject: Re: restrictions for 'registered addicts' Posted on: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:14:17 +0000


> Yea but she didnt have a conviction, that shouldnt count right?
>
> --
> TAI FU
> "conisby" wrote in message
> news:34$439175$4591817$1175511096@britishexpats.com...
> >
> >> I just found this on Google.
> >>
> >> "The myth of the 'registered addict'
> >> In the past, doctors were required to notify the Chief Medical
> >> Officer
> >> at the Home Office if they saw people addicted to certain
> >> controlled
> >> drugs, including heroin and methadone. The Chief Medical Officer
> >> kept
> >> details of those people who had been notified on what was known as
> >> the
> >> Addicts Index. People who had been notified to the Addicts Index
> >> often
> >> called themselves �¢?¬��registered
> >> addicts.�¢?¬â�¢
> >>
> >> The Addicts Index now no longer exists. It was a victim of
> >> government
> >> spending cuts in 1997.
> >>
> >> The Addicts Index was confidential and no information from it was
> >> ever
> >> given to the police, other countries, employers or anyone else. Now
> >> that the Addicts Index has gone, the information has been stored
> >> securely.
> >>
> >> Information about how many people are asking for help with drug
> >> problems is now collected regionally. This information is held in
> >> strict confidence too. Usually the only personal information that
> >> is
> >> put on the forms that go from your GP or drug service to the
> >> �¢?¬��regional database�¢?¬â�¢ is your
> >> initials, date of birth and
> >> general area where you live."
> >>
> >> From what I can see, this is good news for us.
> >>
> >> J
> >
> > The biggest problem you have, not including the visa issue, is your
> > spouses criminal record, especially the drugs part of it. Drug
> > offences
> > are a big no no, the only drug offence which is waiverable is a
> > single
> > offence of possession of cannabis under 30 grams. All other drug
> > offences = no admittance
> >
> > --

Tai Fu Tea, or what ever ya name is, If you had read correctly, you
would have read that the op's spouse, has had cautions. Which are an
admittance of guilt, and that is as good as a conviction, in the eyes
of USCIS...

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