Hi everyone, how are you all?

New guy here, with the "Traditional" Anglo-Filipina wedding complications question!

I've been browsing the glorious interweb for a while now, and have been on this forum a few times, and believe me when I say how grateful I am for all the help that it has given me. But yes, there are issues I have that I haven't seen the answers to anywhere, and have no friends, English or Filipino here to be able to give me first hand help on it.

Basically, my fiancee is Filipina, and we met here in the UK while she was here as a student. The relationship is very strong, we would do everything together, I even got her obsessed with Rugby too! I still need to work on the Football front though :P Anyway, in April this year her Visa expired and she returned home to the Philippines. I went with her for 3 weeks so that I could get to know her more, her culture, her family, and to test ultimately if we truly were meant to be together. Obviously, we both believe we are, and we got engaged out there too. So anyway, wedding plans begin, and I have been having huge issues getting my head around these legal issues, but I think I'm getting there now! Date is set for 24th November 2012, holiday is booked (fly 1st Nov, return 1st Dec), Venue booked, even my parents and sister are booked to attend too!

Anyway, I think the Wedding and legal side of that is now understood by my small mind, it's the visa part that's causing the headaches now! It's so long winded, and so many links on the UKBA website!

So anyway, the questions. Firstly, are there any members on here that have had the same experience in meeting in the UK as a student? Does this affect the Visa application process in any possitive/negative way? Thanks to the facebook age we have a million pictures of us together doing stuff all the time in various places around here and the Philippines, so I think we pass the criteria of "have we met".

With the fact she studied in the UK for 3 years, obtained an NVQ level 3, which was taught in English, will she still need to take her English speaking test. She took one before she studied here, but that's now expired so I know she can't use that anymore.

Also, I haven't looked this up yet, but may aswell ask it now. Once her Visa is granted, how soon can she start working here? Part of her course here was work experienced based, and I have told her to stay in good touch with her old boss, and see if she can get a job back there again when she returns. If she can start working straight away then this would come in handy for us topping up our joint savings account again, as they have been attacked alot from the remittance for the wedding payments.

Anyway, that's all for now, my mind has gone completely blank but no doubt I'll ask a million more questions soon!

Thanks for your help

Adrian