Thanks again Pete, I may need to work the six months in the UK and show the reugular income, as a consultant I get paid irregularly and am treated as a contractor rather than an employee although I do have an employment contract with a nominal salary for work visa purposes in Hong Kong. If Ligaya just wants to come over in April so we can be in the same place she would need to return to Manila after we have all our ducks in a row and then apply form there, wait 8 weeks or so and then re -enter on entry clearance - provided it was issued, am I right? This may not be an issue for us as we intended to spend at least one month at our home in Palawan in the summer anyway and then should would have about another 4 weeks if all goes well.
As you mentioned our relationship goes back to 2003 so maybe the officials will go down the route you suggested. Either way I am not sure I can show nice income patterns from my HK accounts as I just keep maintaining balances there and have most of my payments made to our filipino accounts as we try to live there in Palawan as much as possible so I guess I might need to do the six months. As I suspected this is more complex than one might think.
Hello to Anilyn and Paul, Ligaya will be pleased to hear that.
