Quote Originally Posted by joebloggs View Post
nope disagree, applying for FLR is still a pain in the nearly the same as applying for ILR.

i would rather spend £500 on an airticket to the phils than give it the HO for your FLR

so what if he needs 2wks in the phils (why 2wks ?? ) , with his wife in the uk, he probably not be leaving the uk again this year anyway.

avergae cost of a uk wedding is £20k , now tell me what you could get for that in the phils , my wedding in the phils didn't even come to £2k (yes that was 7yrs ago thou)

as for work, i think money is a bit of a problem for him, so the sooner his wife starts work the better. at least she will not have to wait up to 9 months b4 she can start work.
FLR is hardly complex and the big difference is you may only have to collect an extra month or so paperwork over what you needed for the fiancee visa.

I might be wrong but I didn't think you could land in the Philippines and get married the following day - you had to be there for a while.

You totally missed by point about the cost of a wedding. You don't have to spend £20K, and it is possible to have a very cheap wedding in the UK, probably less than £200. I bet very few 'foreigners' have got away with a wedding that cheap in the Philippines...

And it terms of timescales yes it could take up to 9 months with a fiancee visa to get FLR, but then again she could get married in the UK and have FLR within 3 weeks of getting the fiancee visa if you really wanted.