Everyday in the news its all bad news, thousands of people lost their jobs or thousands more are about to loose theirs. In some newspapers some of the headlines are immigrants stealing Brits jobs etc

I know that UK's economy is one of the badly hit of worldwide recessesion right now. I hope that your partners are prepared to this bad news when they arrive here in UK and can't find a job and their families back home expecting a pound soon At our place where I work I can't believe that we got loads of applicant for only two vacancies open. My manager is really surprised as well as before it takes us alteast 2 months to have an interested applicant but now my manager is having a hard time selecting among those loads of applicants.

I would say lucky to those filipinas that they don't need to work as their husband can provide for them without going to work and their partner can spare a few pounds to send for their families in the Phils. I must admit right now I am having a hard time as the pounds is so weak to peso. I have a mortage in the Phils, Im sending monthly to my parents and I have personal loans here in UK. I am just glad that I can still work 60 hours/week atleast.

I am happy for those who gets their visas and start a new life here in UK. After all the long wait, stressed and emotional outburst. As they said, all's well that ends well. Good luck to all of us for 2009.

I do believe that there's always a light at the end of the tunnel.