home at last

[dave65]

hi everyone
Jasmine and i have just got home to england hope to catch up with you all soon
dave

[tiger@tigress]

WOW im happy for you that your together.... its hard to be apart from the one your love....

[Chrisirene]

Welcome both !

Bet u r so glad to be away from all that sun, white sand, warmth, palms, blah, blah & blah !!!

[andypaul]

Welcome and welcome back respectively to the UK

Glad you had a safe journey, im sure your take some time to rest and adjust.

Then like all the rest of us who have been so lucky to be unite in the UK you will now be entering stage two sorting out all the paperworks for Jasmine. It seems complicated and frustraing at times, but with the help of this site you should have no problems

[fontain]

Welcome back to blighty, my fiancee got her visa on Friday so we are just trying to arrange flights now, but shes gotta go to this bloody seminar first

Even though she spent 10 years in Singapore and has visited here already

[dave65]

Thanks guys
Jasmine is coping well, the cold was a bit of a shock but she is still keen to see snow and if we do have some, i think her enthusiasm will last all of 30 seconds
we took a couple of days looking around the local towns trying to find stuff familiar to her the only thing on the list we havent found is sour mango
next thing to sort out is a national insurance number as min would like to work i suspect this will involve more red tape than the visa
we did come across one problem at immigration when leaving manila because jasmine put teacher in the occupation part of the immigration card the officer wanted to see a form from her employer to say they gave her permission to leave and insisted that if she did not have it we would have to return to leyte to get it (i guess this like confirmation she is released from any work contract)
fortunatly the supervisor allowed us to fill out a new card and leave the occupation bit blank
good luck to any of you about to go through the same phase
dave and jasmine

[joebloggs]

wow, need permission off your employer
crazy, just crazy....
why are things never simple
when you get married your wife should just be able to come here, no visa, no permisson no red tape, just show immmigration your marriage cert..
but iam dreaming lol.

[IainBusby]

next thing to sort out is a national insurance number as min would like to work i suspect this will involve more red tape than the visa

Getting a National Insurance Number is not just a formality, they want to see actual proof that she has been seeking employment such as "rejection letters". The easiest thing to do is wait till she finds a job and then apply.

Iain.

[joebloggs]

or in my case, my wife had to get a NI number so i could claim tax creds for our daughter, and months later when she was offered a job, my wife already had a NI number

[gingging]

WELCOME AND WELCOME BACK!

[KeithD]

Or you can buy a NI off a few mates down the Dock Road in Liverpool