Quote Originally Posted by joebloggs View Post
what i did was to ask the misses to go to a travel agents in the phils, ask about one way tickets to the uk, we picked a airline and flight, paid a deposit, i sent her the money to buy the ticket, she told me what airline and the flight number, i then looked around getting the cheapest return flight returning on the same flight as the misses, and phone the airline to reserve a seat next to hers . no problems - thou you would probably need to book early as there might not be many seats left on earlier flights. probably not an ideal way, possibility i couldn't get a ticket to return on same flight as hers.

thou i think it could be possible for you to buy a return ticket and then a oneway ticket to the uk on-line, one after another, but maybe others have done that on here ?
When we did it (Jan 05) I had my return ticket booked, and after my wife (then my fiancee) got her visa (different procedure back then..) we booked her one way ticket on the same flight as me through a local travel agency in Manila. We only booked her ticket about 10 days in advance of the flight.

No reason why you couldn't book it all from the UK - I would have done if I had know for certain my wife's visa would be granted