Filipina wife visiting visa to UK. Help please.

[JonHig]

Hi Joe!!!

Thank you for that info, but having read through it all it does seem that the immigration gang will still do their darndest to keep us out. Living in France and trying to be employed is well nigh impossible for me at my age. I was working there before i left for the Middle East but to try and take it up again will not be easy in the extreme.

Yes i could easily live there without my family, but it would be hard to try and make ends meet until my wife was fluent enough in French to work there.
I WAS a resident of France with all the full entitlements, but that may have lapsed. I will look into it however.

At the end of the day it is probably easier to go to England as i said in my post above, as work in my particular profession would be much easier to obtain there. Also the pay i would get is high enough to be ablew to work part time and still earn enough to satisfy big brother, maybe!

My eldest son, wife and an 11 yr old boy live comfortably enough in Kent on 600 pounds a month plus his mortgage. Now if i could earn that for about 8 hours per week, surely that would be enough taking my pension of about 600 pm into account on top of that. That is not obviously not including her own possibilities of work in which she is well qualified too!

Regards
John

[joebloggs]

Hi Joe!!!

Thank you for that info, but having read through it all it does seem that the immigration gang will still do their darndest to keep us out. Living in France and trying to be employed is well nigh impossible for me at my age. I was working there before i left for the Middle East but to try and take it up again will not be easy in the extreme.

it's your right as a EU citizen to bring your wife and family, unlike the British immigration system. I think the only way they can really refuse your wife a family permit is on the grounds of being a marriage of convenience, but in your case that's impossible.

Yes i could easily live there without my family, but it would be hard to try and make ends meet until my wife was fluent enough in French to work there.
I WAS a resident of France with all the full entitlements, but that may have lapsed. I will look into it however.

your wife work there? your'e wife would only need to be in France for 6 months max, and then bring your wife to the uk.

It seems strange, but it is true that a British citizen has more rights to enjoy family life in any one of the seventeen other member countries of EEA than they do in the country of their own citizenship!

http://www.ncadc.org.uk/archives/fil...ews17/don.html

At the end of the day it is probably easier to go to England as i said in my post above, as work in my particular profession would be much easier to obtain there. Also the pay i would get is high enough to be ablew to work part time and still earn enough to satisfy big brother, maybe!

My eldest son, wife and an 11 yr old boy live comfortably enough in Kent on 600 pounds a month plus his mortgage. Now if i could earn that for about 8 hours per week, surely that would be enough taking my pension of about 600 pm into account on top of that. That is not obviously not including her own possibilities of work in which she is well qualified too!

Regards
John

maybe easier to apply for spouse visa, any chance you can go and live with your son for a while? while you find a job, save up a bit of money, collect some bank statements and payslips ?..

even better, it might be possible for your son to sponsors your wife accommodation? as long as the home wouldn't be overcrowded. could save you alot in rent, once your wife gets here, go and live where you want..

the bare minimum you need to support your wife for a visa, is about £100 a week after paying rent/mortgage and council tax. but the more the better, but if you have children it be more.

[JonHig]

No chance Joe. They live in a two bed apartment and seem to think it would be a hardship to put me up let alone my wife and child! I will sleep on all this tho. So much food for thought. Re France, i thought i read that i had to work in France. I will look at it again tomorrow.

Thanks a lot. I am so grateful to all for the help.

John

[joebloggs]

No chance Joe. They live in a two bed apartment and seem to think it would be a hardship to put me up let alone my wife and child! I will sleep on all this tho. So much food for thought. Re France, i thought i read that i had to work in France. I will look at it again tomorrow.

Thanks a lot. I am so grateful to all for the help.

John

An EEA national can exercise Treaty rights in another Member State by being an employed / self-employed person, or a student.

Only if the EEA national doesn't not fall in to one of the above categories, must he or she have sufficient funds to support himself / herself.

[keithAngel]

John I dont know where you want to be geographicaly in the UK but a thought occured that if you could get for example your son/friend to look for a property rental that can be offered you but which only becomes available around the time of the result of your application (but with an aggreement)that way you wouldnt be paying rent whilst not using the propety .

It may be you could retire to France based on your previous residency depends on the rent implication I guess

[JonHig]

Good morning Keith!

I plan to live in the North West. Lancashire to be exact. I look forward to walking in the Peninnes and Lake District once again and letting my two loved ones experience real fresh air. I assume it still exists up there! Better than Manila at any rate.

We can discount my son i am afraid. We get on perfectly well but they have enough of their own affairs to take care of without taking on any of mine.

If we can be near enough to Manchester (not a bad city by any means) it will be easier for my wife to get work, and it is a convenient location to be able to go to the seaside for our little one to enjoy. We don't want much except to give Chloe a chance of betterment as she grows older. We certainly do not intend to sponge off the State, but we shall take what we are entitled too nonetheless!

Have a nice Sunday all, and thanks once more for your interest and help.

John

[JonHig]

Another query please if i may.

It seems fairly easy to get around 100 pounds pw That is only about 18 hours work. So in essence it is no problem on that front. However if i am getting housing benefits, and i have had it confirmed that i shall, will that be a black mark against me even if i am earning sufficient to keep the family? I am talking of the pension plus the minimum of earnings as above. I find it hard to believe that it would, although if anything can happen, it will!

I do not mind doing a part time job but full time would be difficult as it would reduce the time i have to try and build up my true profession once more.

I cannot understand the logic or reasoning as to why they can't take into account benefits which they know we shall be entitled to once she is actually here. Maybe my intelligence doesn't stretch far enough to understand!

TTFN
John