minimum earnings?

[Admin]

which can seem intimidating to applicants who are not used to the aggressive questioning techniques used by Entry Clearance Officers.

You wouldn't happen to mean those nice friendly English people at the British Embassy would you? :o :o :o :o

[Philip]

Originally posted by admin@Aug 30 2005, 07:57 AM
You wouldn't happen to mean those nice friendly English people at the British Embassy would you? :o :o :o :o

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Oh, it's actually english people who do the interview?

I will be visiting twice, it's the right thing to do for so many reasons, the most important of all is for our relationship.

We'll be hoarding as much evidence as possible, I've been informing myself(heh) and my gf on what we need to do, know and what paperwork we need etc. Nice sturdy folders have been bought for this hoarding purpose with sections marked

Proof of relationship, Proof we have met, Proof of support, Accomodation, Identification(birth cert, singleness, etc). I think those sections should cover everything?

My only blind spot is about parental accomodation, not so sure whats needed to show that or what is acceptable for the application/embassy interview.

This site has informed me greatly already though!

The general feeling I get is that 'preperation, preperation, preperation' is the key to a succsesful application, know your enemy so to speak.

[Pauldo]

Originally posted by manila bound@Aug 30 2005, 10:21 AM

We'll be hoarding as much evidence as possible, I've been informing myself(heh) and my gf on what we need to do, know and what paperwork we need etc. Nice sturdy folders have been bought for this hoarding purpose with sections marked

Proof of relationship, Proof we have met, Proof of support, Accomodation, Identification(birth cert, singleness, etc). I think those sections should cover everything?

My only blind spot is about parental accomodation, not so sure whats needed to show that or what is acceptable for the application/embassy interview.

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You're on the right track there, get as much paperwork as you can. When my wife and I applied for her settlement visa we had a stack of papers 3" thick, all neatly labelled as copies, originals, passports phtos etc.

Strange, but after the nice English lady finished reading the application form all she seemed interested in was why my passport only had a single stamp in it. One solitary stamp, but it was for the for the Philippines.

Aha, forwarned is forearmed, and I pulled out my other five old passports, with about a gazillion stamps in. (I'm a seaman) That was it, no problem, and she never even glanced at the huge mountain of letters, photgraphs, bank statements, receipts, etc etc.

She told us to wait until they'd done the NSO check, to see if my wife was a thrice married axe murderer, then they'd let us know when she could collect her visa.

That was three and a half years ago, but we are now about to embark on the same drama to bring my mother in law over :( :huh: :mellow:

Oh yes. And when we first moved over we were staying at my mum and dads house, while we found a rental joint, where we planned to stay until we bought our own place. They had no qualms about that, never even asked about it.

[Philip]

Dont know if anyone has/had this same problem, but keeping ym chat logs is all fine and well, however, what gets talked about is sometimes rather personal. We're not so sure we'd like some immigration person reading some of the things we talk about.

:blink:

[walesrob]

Originally posted by manila bound@Sep 7 2005, 03:02 PM
Dont know if anyone has/had this same problem, but keeping ym chat logs is all fine and well, however, what gets talked about is sometimes rather personal. We're not so sure we'd like some immigration person reading some of the things we talk about.

:blink:

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You could copy paste then edit these logs. To be honest, I considered using our chat logs until I realised they were a bit um, well, private. Luckily we had plenty of emails so I printed those instead - I think 50 should be enough, even though we had 1000's. Whats moe important is consistency, so what I did was print out an email so many days/weeks apart.

[Philip]

Originally posted by walesrob@Sep 7 2005, 03:26 PM
You could copy paste then edit these logs. To be honest, I considered using our chat logs until I realised they were a bit um, well, private. Luckily we had plenty of emails so I printed those instead - I think 50 should be enough, even though we had 1000's. Whats moe important is consistency, so what I did was print out an email so many days/weeks apart.

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My gf only comes online when I'm off work, which is sunday and an alternating week day(a saturday every 6 weeks), so emails are kinda redundant for us.

I thought about editing, but maybe the blocks of cut out time would raise suspicion?

Ym chat logs and letters should be ok you think?

:unsure:

[stretch33]

Originally posted by Pauldo@Sep 4 2005, 07:42 PM
You're on the right track there, get as much paperwork as you can. When my wife and I applied for her settlement visa we had a stack of papers 3" thick, all neatly labelled as copies, originals, passports phtos etc.

Strange, but after the nice English lady finished reading the application form all she seemed interested in was why my passport only had a single stamp in it. One solitary stamp, but it was for the for the Philippines.

Aha, forwarned is forearmed, and I pulled out my other five old passports, with about a gazillion stamps in. (I'm a seaman) That was it, no problem, and she never even glanced at the huge mountain of letters, photgraphs, bank statements, receipts, etc etc.

She told us to wait until they'd done the NSO check, to see if my wife was a thrice married axe murderer, then they'd let us know when she could collect her visa.

That was three and a half years ago, but we are now about to embark on the same drama to bring my mother in law over :( :huh: :mellow:

Oh yes. And when we first moved over we were staying at my mum and dads house, while we found a rental joint, where we planned to stay until we bought our own place. They had no qualms about that, never even asked about it.

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