At Last

[Admin]

After 16 months, my wife's niece and her English fiancee managed to get their heads out of their asses, and she was granted her visa in Manilla today.

It now seems that all successful applicants have to attend a seminar before they leave for the UK!!! Guess it's to inform them of the crap weather, terrible crime, high taxes..... ::)

Then when she's here she has to do the new thing, and get permission of the Home Office to marry...more money. The UK is getting as bad at the Philippines, charge for everything except breathing!!

[peterdavid]

The seminar thing has been around for a while - it's all rather pointless as it's so out of date and run by filipinos who themselves have probably never travelled further than 5 miles from the place they were born, let alone to a foreign country. It's full of out of date stuff and anti-foreigner nonsense such as "most foreigners, when they get you to their own country, turn into raging sex monsters who will keep you trapped indoors and beat you if you don't do as you're told". Possibly relevant for a filipina off to be an "entertainer" in Japan, but just cos the japanese are renowned for that, no need to tar us all with the same brush.

The British charges are so extortionate!!

[Admin]

Not forgetting the embarrasment of the Town Hall meeting for new citizens 8) What a load of 'ollocks that is.

[peterdavid]

Yes, that's equally appalling. What are these people thinking? It's so cheesy and embarrassing. It's like we're going backwards sometimes.