Hello everyone,

I am new to this forum, so guess the best place to start is here!!I have come here for some serious advice. I have been talking to my love Diana on the internet for over 2 years, and went to Cebu to meet her in February/March this year. Whilst there, we got engaged and confirmed our love for one another.

My problem is, I want to bring her to UK to live together, but as things stand I am NOT working at the moment. I have read the guidelines saying that I must produce 6 months payslips, 6 months bank statments and either own my own home or live in rented accomodation with tenancy agreement etc. At the moment therefore, I cannot bring her here, but intend to get back into work, so that I CAN start the process. Working on the guidelines that I have to prove I can support her without the use of government funds etc, I need help....

Advice I need is as follows..........

1) How much MINIMUM would I need to earn to show that I can readily support her.? I obviously have rent and bills to pay, but assuming I can keep these expenses to a minimum, and not "waste" any money, what amount would they consider acceptable to bring her here?
2) Would it be of benefit for me to go back to Philippines to marry her there? What would be the advantages/disadvantages?
3) I sent Diana some money to pay for her visa application etc, plus another £3000 on top. I have asked her to look after this to support the application as and when the time comes, because I don't want to fritter the money away here, which I might do if it was in MY account. Would this be enough money to suppoprt the application

I am thinking that as i am not really skilled in any particular field of work, that the average amount of money I am likely to earn is going to be approx £240-260 after tax, although I am looking for work that involves looooooooooong hours, such as security, where I might earn more. With rent, electric, phone, food and other minimal bills totalling about £200, I could "on paper" show that I have £40 per week to support Diana. Bearing in mind, all other costs will be the same other than food, and her clothing etc, I feel this COULD be enough to support her. What are your views on this please??

As I said, we met in Feb for first time and have 500 pics and movies of our meeting. We also talk on skype and watch one another sleep every day for 16 hours or more, and have plenty of chat history. We call one another too if we're ever apart, so there is no doubting our love. We do intend to marry, but don't know whether UK or Philippines would be best..... Thanx in advance for anyone's help. Please feel free to email me on [EMAIL REMOVED: PLEASE DONT POST YOUR PERSONAL EMAIL ADDRESS ON FORUM] Thanx again

Bye and nice meeting you all