If you can't visit the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in person, there's still some interesting stuff on their blog, including this link to NYPD historical crime scene photos from the pre-WWI era, which the Museum used as reference for one of the homes they refurbished (since crime scene photos show homes that haven't been tidied up for visitors ( Read more... )

Setting: Modern day United States. California, if it needs to be that specific, which it most likely will ( Read more... )

Setting: Poland/Israel, 1980s ( Read more... )

Modern Day, NZ and UK ( Read more... )

Two things to be considered here, people.

( Scenario 1: Mid 1990s UK, couple disappear, house burns. Are they dead? )

Hello! This is my first time posting to this (extremely helpful) community. Anyway, I'm writing a book, and one of the characters is Turkish. Due to many an issue (you can imagine your own, it's never made clear what happened), he's ended up in London, England. He's twenty years old, and has been living there for two years, working part-time as a ( Read more... )

Setting: Canada, present
Search terms used: Canadian immigration laws, permanent residency in Canada, who can become a permanent resident in Canada, applying for permanent residency while already in Canada
Soren and Tobias were both adopted by the same family after they each lost their parents at age 8. Tobias lost his family in an accident. Soren's ( Read more... )

Hi all,

Many thanks for previous help, but now I have a question in regards to visas and what type my character might be eligible for.

( Background/questions under cut, as usual. )

When: Now

Where: United Kingdom

Places Wot I Have Already Looked At: UK Border Agency website (I'm not sure which bit of information applies here...so many different kinds of visas!)

Situation: A citizen of a Commonwealth country applies for a visa to live/work in the UK. He's working for/enlisted in the British Army, if that makes a difference ( Read more... )

Hey all,

More questions on the NaNo front and a scenario that will likely need ironing out before I do anything, mostly concerning citizenship.

( Details and research under here. )