The United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland
is a country in western
Europe, a Commonwealth Realm,
and a member of NATO. It left the European Union on 31 January 2020. Usually known
simply as the United Kingdom,
the UK, or (inaccurately) as
Great Britain, Britain or
England (the most populous of
the home nations), the UK has
four constituent parts. Three
of these — the ancient
nations of England, Wales and
Scotland — are located on the
island of Great Britain. The
fourth part is Northern
Ireland, which is located on
the island of Ireland. Politically, the term Great Britain refers collectively to the nations of England, Wales and Scotland (i.e., the United Kingdom except for Northern Ireland).
The UK is situated off the
north-western coast of
continental Europe, and has a
land border with the Republic
of Ireland, but is otherwise
surrounded by the North Sea,
the English Channel, the
Celtic Sea, the Irish Sea,
and the Atlantic Ocean.
Major cities of England include
London, Birmingham,
Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield,
Liverpool, Bristol,
Nottingham, Leicester, and
Newcastle upon Tyne. Near
Dover, the Channel Tunnel
links the United Kingdom with
France. There is no peak in
England that is 1000m or
greater.
Wales is mostly mountainous,
the highest peak being
Snowdon, at 1,085 m above sea
level. North of the mainland
is the island of Anglesey.
The largest and capital city
is Cardiff, located in the
south of Wales. The other
metropolitan areas include
Swansea, Newport, and
Wrexham.
Scotland's geography is
varied, with lowlands in the
south and east and highlands
in the north and west,
including Ben Nevis, the UK's
highest mountain (1343 m).
There are many long and
deep-sea arms, firths, and
lochs. A multitude of islands
west and north of Scotland
are also included, notably
the Hebrides, Orkney Islands
and Shetland Islands, as is
the uninhabited islet of
Rockall, although this claim
is disputed. Main cities are
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen,
and Dundee.
Northern Ireland, making up
the north-eastern part of
Ireland, is mostly hilly. The
main cities are Belfast and
Londonderry.
The United Kingdom is a
member of the Commonwealth of
Nations (successor
organization to the former
British Empire) and NATO. It
is also a permanent member of
the UN Security Council and
holds a veto power. It is one
of the few (no more than ten)
nuclear powers on the planet.
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, with executive power exercised by a government headed by the Prime Minister and the other Ministers of State who form the Cabinet. The current monarch is Queen Elizabeth II who acceded to the throne in 1952 and was crowned in 1953.
The United Kingdom is
described as being
traditionally a centralized,
or unitary, state, with
Parliament at Westminster
holding responsibility for
most of the UK's political
power.
The British Armed Forces are
charged with protecting the
United Kingdom and its
overseas territories,
promoting Britain's wider
security interests, and
supporting international
peacekeeping efforts. They
are active and regular
participants in NATO and
other coalition operations.
The United Kingdom, a leading
trading power and financial
centre, has an essentially
capitalist economy.
Agriculture is intensive,
highly mechanized, and
efficient by European
standards, producing about
60% of food needs with only
1% of the labor force. The UK
has large coal, natural gas,
and oil reserves; primary
energy production accounts
for 10% of GDP, one of the
highest shares of any
industrial state.
Services, particularly banking, insurance and business services, account for by far the largest proportion of GDP. Industry continues to decline in importance, although the UK is still Europe's prominent manufacturer of cars, armaments, petroleum products, personal computers, televisions, and mobile telephones. Tourism is also important with the UK ranking as the
sixth major tourist
destination in the world.
The primary language spoken
is English.
Recent immigrants, especially
from the Commonwealth, speak
many other languages,
including Cantonese, Punjabi,
Gujarati, Hindi, Urdu and
Jamaican Creole.
The United Kingdom contains
two of the world's most
famous universities, the
University of Cambridge, and
the University of Oxford, and
has produced many great
scientists and engineers
including Sir Isaac Newton,
Charles Darwin, Michael
Faraday, Paul Dirac and
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
amongst others; the nation is
credited with the invention
of the steam engine,
locomotive, 3-piece suit,
vaccination, lead crystal,
television, radio, the
telephone, submarine,
hovercraft, and both the
internal combustion and jet
engines.
The UK was, with the US, one of the two main contributors in the development of rock and roll, and the UK has provided some of the most famous bands, including the Beatles, Cliff Richard, Queen, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple and many others. The UK has also been at
the forefront of electronica,
with British artists such as
Aphex Twin, Talvin Singh,
Nitin Sawhney and Lamb at the
cutting edge.
A great number of major
sports originated in the
United Kingdom, including
association football
(soccer), golf, cricket,
boxing, rugby, billiards, and
rounders, the forerunner of baseball. The
Wimbledon Championships are
an international tennis event
held in Wimbledon in south
London every summer and are
seen as the most prestigious
of the tennis calendar.
VISA, ADMINISTRATIVE
REVIEW AND APPEAL
SYSTEM IN THE UNITED
KINGDOM
UK offers visas to enable
people to work and to do business, to
study, for short stays and tourism, to
join family members who are already in the
UK, to transit through the UK to another
country, to live permanently in the UK, as
a refugee or as someone who needs
humanitarian protection, as a stateless
person, as someone who needs permission to
stay.
UK also has
an Administrative Review as
well as Appeal process in
place for certain visa categories so that the applicants
who feel that they have been
unfairly denied a visa may
have their application
reviewed. Appeal
process takes place in UK
before the Tribunal.
We have substantial
expertise and experience in preparing
documentation for
Administrative Reviews as
well as Appeals. Our
past clients who went in Appeal
before the Tribunal in UK on
the basis of our
documentation, have won the
Appeals without having to
engage a local attorney to
represent them before the
Tribunal in UK. This is a
testament to our detailed and
flawless documentation.
If you have been denied a
Visa, send to us for our free
evaluation of your case a
copy of the Letter of Refusal
issued to you by the UK High
Commission.
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