jimps1973
1st August 2013, 10:36
Hi Everyone,
I am glad to be a part of your community, it looks like you are a friendly bunch and hopefully you can provide a little advice to me.
My Filipina girlfriend and I have been together for 2 months and are madly in love. I have never married and always waited for the right girl and she is certainly the person I wish to spend the rest of my life with and the feeling is mutual.
I am 40, living in Cardiff and my Filipina girlfriend is 27 and lives in Weston Super Mare. About 3 miles across the water, (but no ferry available haha) 50 miles by car.
I have a house and business in Cardiff and my girlfriend is working in nursing care in Weston. She came to the UK 2 1/2 years ago to study and then as part of that a health care role. Her visa expires early February 2014.
Her work have said they would love her to stay and would continue her employment. However, for them to sponsor her, apparently she needs to pass one more exam, but this will mean enrolling for a further 6 months course, (perhaps Bristol University). However, if she enrols in a new course to complete the extra qualification required, it will take her past the February visa expiration date.
My girlfriend is worried and seems to think, that because she had an extension already, the UK immigration will not grant another. I am not quite sure where she has got this information from, probably confused and mixed messages read online etc.
Even though at present we live in different places, we do very much want to live together. It's just a bit tricky at the moment with her work being in Weston and my business being in Cardiff.
Also I would love to marry her and will be getting engaged in the near future, but I don't want to do this just for 'paper work'. Marriage really should be at the right time. However, I guess if we get married here in the UK, it could help our situation? If that then meant she could move into my house and look for similar work in Cardiff, then that would be amazing, but I am guessing nothing is as straight forward as that?
So I am wondering what might be the best thing to do. Should she try and get an extension on her Visa focused on her work wanting to keep her position going and leave me out of the application / type of visa or should we be getting married and doing things jointly as a couple?
To be honest, I will do whatever it takes for us to continue our relationship and hopefully it will be long lasting and forever. Even in the worse case where my girlfriend is not granted an extension or cannot stay, then I will sell my shares in the business and move to Manila with her in February. Luckily I have another business interest which I can manage from my laptop anywhere in the world.
Sorry for the length of my post, but I guess the more information I can provide the better.
All the best, Jim :-)
I am glad to be a part of your community, it looks like you are a friendly bunch and hopefully you can provide a little advice to me.
My Filipina girlfriend and I have been together for 2 months and are madly in love. I have never married and always waited for the right girl and she is certainly the person I wish to spend the rest of my life with and the feeling is mutual.
I am 40, living in Cardiff and my Filipina girlfriend is 27 and lives in Weston Super Mare. About 3 miles across the water, (but no ferry available haha) 50 miles by car.
I have a house and business in Cardiff and my girlfriend is working in nursing care in Weston. She came to the UK 2 1/2 years ago to study and then as part of that a health care role. Her visa expires early February 2014.
Her work have said they would love her to stay and would continue her employment. However, for them to sponsor her, apparently she needs to pass one more exam, but this will mean enrolling for a further 6 months course, (perhaps Bristol University). However, if she enrols in a new course to complete the extra qualification required, it will take her past the February visa expiration date.
My girlfriend is worried and seems to think, that because she had an extension already, the UK immigration will not grant another. I am not quite sure where she has got this information from, probably confused and mixed messages read online etc.
Even though at present we live in different places, we do very much want to live together. It's just a bit tricky at the moment with her work being in Weston and my business being in Cardiff.
Also I would love to marry her and will be getting engaged in the near future, but I don't want to do this just for 'paper work'. Marriage really should be at the right time. However, I guess if we get married here in the UK, it could help our situation? If that then meant she could move into my house and look for similar work in Cardiff, then that would be amazing, but I am guessing nothing is as straight forward as that?
So I am wondering what might be the best thing to do. Should she try and get an extension on her Visa focused on her work wanting to keep her position going and leave me out of the application / type of visa or should we be getting married and doing things jointly as a couple?
To be honest, I will do whatever it takes for us to continue our relationship and hopefully it will be long lasting and forever. Even in the worse case where my girlfriend is not granted an extension or cannot stay, then I will sell my shares in the business and move to Manila with her in February. Luckily I have another business interest which I can manage from my laptop anywhere in the world.
Sorry for the length of my post, but I guess the more information I can provide the better.
All the best, Jim :-)