Great post justchecking but this bit is not accurate marriage is not a requirement and providing DNA matches if required its a rightOriginally Posted by justchecking
Great post justchecking but this bit is not accurate marriage is not a requirement and providing DNA matches if required its a right
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marriage is not required in all cases, depends on when the child was born, also you may well be asked for a dna tested to be done if your not married.Great post justchecking but this bit is not accurate marriage is not a requirement and providing DNA matches if required its a right
also citizenship is not a right in all cases, it can be at the discretion of the Home Secretary
Interesting Joe My reading is that Home seretary Discretion only applies where the claim comes from a parent with British nationality through descentmarriage is not required in all cases, depends on when the child was born, also you may well be asked for a dna tested to be done if your not married.
also citizenship is not a right in all cases, it can be at the discretion of the Home Secretary
A child born outside the UK on or after 1 January 1983 will automatically acquire British citizenship by descent if either parent is a British citizen otherwise than by descent at the time of the birth.
- Only one parent needs to be British otherwise than by descent - either the father or the mother.
- As a general rule, an unmarried father cannot pass on British citizenship automatically in the case of children born before 1 July 2006. Although, if the parents marry subsequent to the birth, the child normally will become a British citizen at that point if legitimated by the marriage and the father was eligible to pass on British citizenship. Further, if the unmarried British father was domiciled in a country that treated (at the date of birth of the child born before 1 July 2006) a child born to unmarried parents in the same way as a child born to married parents, then the father passed on British citizenship automatically to his child, even though the child was born before 1 July 2006 to unmarried parents.[1] Such countries include Jamaica and New Zealand [2],Brazil[3] and Hungary[4].
- Failing the above, the child can be registered as British if it would have been British if parents were married and application is made before the child is 18.
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Hi justchecking,
If we go to live in the Phils one day in the future, can my children who are born to my Filipina wife (married in Phils) in the UK get Filipino citizenship also?
My kids all have dual citizenship..They got it after the mrs visited the Phil embassy to reacquire her Filipino citizenship..Easy peasy.
Thanks Fred
that's true, but what i meant by cases, was other types of visa, spouse visa, those on work permits and even those on family permits etc , citizenship is at the discretion of the home secretary.
Naturalisation is not an entitlement. It is a matter of law as set out in the
British Nationality Act 1981. The Home Secretary may exercise his discretion to naturalise
you only if you satisfy a number of statutory requirements. He may disregard the extent to
which you are unable to fully satisfy certain requirements but he cannot do this in all cases
http://www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/sit...y/guide_an.pdf
also Euro law doesn't cover citizenship. so the gov can do what they want without any bother from the boys in brussels
As some may know I am planning to partly live in the Philippines, and should have been there now, but need to get my treatment concluded first. Much better to do that in the UK as there is no NHS in the Phil and having already supported one family member through radiotherapy I can tell you, it's costly.
We have bought a house in Cebu, 15 kgs south of the city. It is right on the beach facing Bohol, which is where Connie's family live so they are close enough to be easy to visit, but far enough not to doorstep. I loath Manila and don't want to be anywhere close to the place. Having already spent around 12 months in total there I have enough experience to make a judgement. We plan winters there and summers here. I love the English summer, real ale in pub gardens, watching cricket, long evenings and walks on cliff tops. I also appreciate good food and the BBC. I find the TV in the Phil to be just terrible and you have to spend time finding good food. However I don't enjoy the English winter and so we will spend our time there, in our lovely new home, going fishing, diving and island hoping on the boat I will buy and generally relaxing. I am already semi-retired and may shortly be fully retired. My rule has been to make my money in the UK and then spend it in the Phil as earning an income there is pretty near impossible, unless you are contracted by an international employer. The costs in living in the Phil is like anywhere else.........it depends. You can live very, very simply on not very much but your comfort levels will not be great. We rented a nice house on a sub division last year, from a fellow Brit, and paid 27,000 pesos per month. We did whatever we fancied, eat out a lot etc and it cost less than 100,000 pesos per month on top of the rental but we really did not attempt to economise.
Another really important reason for splitting our time is to maintain our position with the NHS. In my case this is vital but as everyone gets older it becomes more and more important. My enquiries have established, via conversations with the Dept of Health and my PCT, that provided you maintain a permanent UK home and register with your GP on your return here that you will become a permanent resisdent again, that NHS treatment will continue. A permanent resident is someone who has resided, or intends to reside, in the UK for 6 months or more.
As our new home will not be used by ourselves in the summer months we will be offering to rent it and would much prefer to do so to folk we know and trust. So if any of you have the need for such a deal please get in touch and I will gladly send some details. It is not yet furnished, as that is our next task, which will happen just as soon as my treatment is finished.
One thing which may be of interest to anyone who is planning to move to the Philippines and live on their pension:
You should be able to claim Double Taxation Relief on your pension, ie pay no tax on it in the UK but just pay tax in the Philippines, which for you is 0%. The following link may help:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/nonresidents/...taxation.shtml
And secondly; if your wife is an active member of Philhealth then she can include her spouse as a dependent. Therefore if you need medical treatment there you will be able to reclaim a proportion of the cost from Philhealth.
Paul
Thats true Paul but you can also add the kids too.. Theres 5 of us on our Philhealth policy..I think it cost about 1,500 a year.
We've already bought a hectre of land in Dipolog , next step is to build our house (i'm going to be doing a Petchachelli and building it bit by bit). ETA for the house is 3 years finances allowing then we will gradually start to spend longer and longer there. I'm hoping to retire at 50 and live there , as has been said before, the pace of life, quality of life and lack of stress are superior to uk. Sad to say but true inmy experience.
Petchachelli ?? Damn your going back a bit! Even Im too young to remember that show..(i'm going to be doing a Petchachelli and building it bit by bit)
The only set back to doing it that way is that its gonna cost you much more as prices here are going up and up and up..2 years ago sand was 700P per cubic meter.. Now its 1200.. Cement was 90.00 a bag and now its 120,00..
Petrocelli???? He never got his house built did he.
its a nice topic
we loved to live in the Phils specially my husband but not staying there for good may be like some people here spending winter there and summer here. Living here for 6 years now I would say I enjoy every bits of it and last year I had my naturalization.
just recently, i decided to have our own child (my husband got a daugther from previous married she's 25 yrs old now) at my age of 36 and my husband at 53 it is a big decision for me, so, if i get pregnant this year it is a life changing for us.
we don't have much savings nor own a property here in UK and Phils so, probably we're stuck here in UK specially having a kid at our age. all the plans we have in the future will definitely on hold or may not happen anymore.
as some people says UK is not a great country to live so as Phils but if we can afford living both ways would be great. Lucky for some but not for us I think unless we win the lottery.
I've been building mine bit by bit over 5 years, most of its built,just wants ceiling, tiling, plumbing, basically internal work. like Fred said materials are going up all the time. I was lucky £ vs peso was good
Some good advice from people on Pensions and Health care but I would advise anyone to keep a close eye on policy making for the next few years as I can see quite a few changes being made in the name of cost cutting and revenue making. I think whoever gets in there will be a mixture of cost saving, taxes hikes, kneejerking and headline grabbing.
Ie be warned if those who retire abroad get little sympathy in the media and with the "general Public" who could be thought to be tax dodging/health tourists (not my thoughts or words).
I know the majority on here have paid their share and some of tax to UK PLC. But I think its plain to see taxes are going to go though the roof over the next few years and most likely beyond.
So if the goverment decide to change rules i cant see many uk based tax payers backing moves to make life easier for those living abroad.
So maybe more of the millions of ex pats abroad should register to vote in national elections...
Oh lord why did you make so many clothes and shoe shops
You make some good points there and Im absolutely certain that what you say will come to pass eventually..
I would like to thank everybody who has contributed to this thread so far
It is so interesting to see that so many people here are either living in the Philippines or are planning to.
The feedback is very helpful and I look forward to reading the posts of peoples' adventures about life in the Philippines in the future.
Visiting there to see our Mahals is great but living there is way of life.
Does the UK pension get annual cost of living updates?
yes , UK pensioners living in the Philippines get their pension indexed annually
http://www.pensionsadvisoryservice.o...iving-overseas
UK State Pension annual increases
If you are living abroad on a permanent basis you may be entitled to the annual increase to your State Pension rates if you live in an EEA country*, Switzerland, or a country that has a reciprocal social security agreement with the UK**.
If you live abroad in any other country you will not receive an annual increase.
* The EEA countries are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. The UK is also part of the EEA. UK means England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Gibraltar is treated as another EEA country by the UK. Other EEA countries treat Gibraltar as part of the UK.
** Countries with reciprocal agreements are Barbados, Bermuda, Israel (the agreement with Israel applies to the territory administered by the Government of Israel on 19 July 1956), Jamaica, Jersey and Guernsey, Isle of Man, Mauritius, Philippines, Turkey, USA and the separate republics of the former Yugoslavia that are not EU Member States (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, the Republic of Macedonia and Serbia). Increases are also payable in Sark under the UK domestic legislation.
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