The final stages

[joebloggs]

i know what you mean, my misses is free now to go where she wants, without having to worry about visa's and their conditions any more.

the cost to me for visa's for her and the kids, more than £4k over 4 yrs , but its the end of the road. no more


freedom

[KeithD]

freedom

Especially if she dumps you and runs off with a scouser

[Ana_may365]

congrats!to ur wife and also to u,no worrying aboutwish that someday i'll be the same like her

[joebloggs]

Especially if she dumps you and runs off with a scouser

if I was so lucky and that happened , I would be the one running away

[Arthur Little]

On the 22nd July my wife will have her British citizenship ceremony. Then we'll apply for her British passport and then re-apply for her Filipino citizenship so she has dual nationality.

Then after 5 years of paying out for visas etc, the process is over, no more expenses and she can settle down to her new life as a British/Filipino citizen.
I, like many British husbands have paid for the whole process and it's cost a lot of money. When you consider it all, it makes you realise that you've paid out all that money just because you fell in love with someone from another country. You've encountered officials trying to trip you up and prove that your wife is a scammer and that your relationship is a sham. No doubt they're just trying to keep the freeloaders out of our country but it a hard process when your relationship is totally genuine.

Once my wife gets her British passport she can enjoy the unhindered freedom of world travel that we Brits take for granted.
She will maintain her dual nationality so she can continue to own a little bit of her birth country which we and our kids can enjoy.

As soon as our beautiful 3 year old goes to school, my wife can start working and reap the benefits of this country. (assuming the recession is over by then and there are jobs about!).

I'm sure she doesn't regret the move to the UK although she does look forward to the trips back to see her family which I hope we can do once a year. It's been 2 years since she last went although I went without her last year. This November we'll have 3 weeks there with her as a fully fledged Brit.

Yep, 5 expensive, anxiety-filled years ... and all because you happened to have fallen in love with a Filipina! Call me naive if you will, but never in my wildest dreams would I ever have expected all the paraphernalia involved simply to be able to bring MY chosen partner to the country where I was born and, moreover, had lived for upwards of six decades ... nearly five of them as a taxpayer.

But such is life! To be honest, even as recently as last January when MY wife applied for her spousal visa, I'd deludedly imagined that THAT would be the process complete. How mistaken I was! And, as she only came here in March, we've still to face the additional hurdles you've successfully crossed.

Congratulations. May the three of you enjoy all the benefits of your newly-found sense of "freedom" before your child is due to start school.

[Arthur Little]

... the cost to me for visa's for her and the kids, more than £4k over 4 yrs , but its the end of the road. no more

Thankfully, WE didn't ... and WON'T have quite that much to fork out ... not on visa expenses for children, anyway! But, as I've mentioned here before, MY missus taught in the Phils for twenty-two years. And, if she wanted to resume her career here, she'd apparently need to undertake a prescribed course of study to bring her qualifications into line with those required by the General Teaching Council for Scotland! What a load of baloney!

Well YOU'LL be only too well-aware of this already, vis-a-vis your wife's medical training!

[somebody]

Thankfully, WE didn't ... and WON'T have quite that much to fork out ... not on visa expenses for children, anyway! But, as I've mentioned here before, MY missus taught in the Phils for twenty-two years. And, if she wanted to resume her career here, she'd apparently need to undertake a prescribed course of study to bring her qualifications into line with those required by the General Teaching Council for Scotland! What a load of baloney!

Well YOU'LL be only too well-aware of this already, vis-a-vis your wife's medical training!

gotta keep all those people working in the quangos and wot not. If we got rid of all the red tape the dole queue would double at least


The Wife has her meet the mayor thingy soon then we got a trip up london once we have paid 72 quid. Then we have to pop into the phill embassy so she can be a pinay again


Then when we have sprogs we have to worry about what paperwork we need to ensure they are citzens of both countries or what options we do have at the time.

It never ends, but hey at least it keeps penpushers in jobs

[joebloggs]

But, as I've mentioned here before, MY missus taught in the Phils for twenty-two years. And, if she wanted to resume her career here, she'd apparently need to undertake a prescribed course of study to bring her qualifications into line with those required by the General Teaching Council for Scotland! What a load of baloney!

Well YOU'LL be only too well-aware of this already, vis-a-vis your wife's medical training!

yes ,its cost about £2,600 upto now for exams here in the UK, rip off Britain