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.
