Quote Originally Posted by Leo View Post
Hello to every one here my name is leo im 56 devorced got a 15 year old daughter living with me.I am not from the philippines born and bred in the UK why am I on here well I have built up a friendship with a lady from Digos city and I am trying to find more out about filipino cultur.I have invited her to come to the UK for a holiday to see if she likes it here more to the point that she likes me and would want to come and live here and who knows spend the rest of her life with me.So at the moment she is getting the paper work together to get a pass port then a holiday visa I wil be back to ask questions should we need help bye for now
Welcome, Leo. I'm really sorry to "stall" your plans, mate. But, as my friends have already pointed out, it's extremely difficult these days for a Filipino - or indeed ANYONE of a foreign nationality - to acquire a Tourist Visa in order to visit the United Kingdom. I too, made the mistake of thinking my [THEN] Filipina girlfriend (now my wife) could come across here to sample the 'Great' British lifestyle, on the strength of it SEEMING the logical thing for her to do at the *time *[last year].

In the circumstances, therefore, I would ALSO suggest doing what I did in the end: Meet her in her homeland, spend as much time together as you possibly can and take things from there ...! (see my earlier response to Ladybug_sim's post).

May I wish the two of you the same happiness as my wife and I found.