Can a commonwealth citizen join the british army ?
He can join as a commonwealth citizen but you need to be in the country legally, he’d need to sort his visa out first them apply. Gurkhas are a different matter, Nepal was never part of the Empire and is not a part of the commonwealth, they were recruited into the Indian Army and later direct into the British Army by royal agreement with the Nepalese King. There is a petition ongoing to allow them to stay in the UK once they have competed their Service in the British Army http://www.gurkhajustice.org.
