hi mary and drew ,,,i met karen here in belfast she was on a work permit and has been here just over 5 years,,although karen entitled to apply for a spouse visa we forgot the law changed last november and she was refuse a spouse visa because she did not submit the english test the ukba stated she needed ,,as we were heading back to the philippines for our hoildays we submit karens ILR papers and she got that in the same day ,,,,simply because we where running out of time and we knew we would not have our passports back in time for traveling
