Thank you, Hawk for your post.

My wife's UK visa was one of the ones put on hold last year under the income threshold rules, therefore I decided to take your advice. So in June we applied in Manila for an Irish visa.

It's been nearly seven weeks now, but we should receive the visa soon and we will then be leaving Manila for Dublin. We plan on working there and have no plans to move back to the UK.

I will start another thread when we receive the visa. CFO certificate was done in Cebu a few weeks ago so we just need passport stamped here in Manila after we receive the visa.

Robert86, it was interesting to read about your story too, and thanks for that.