Reason for cost increase

[joebloggs]

But then, thinking about it, why would someone leave the UK only to come back a few years later...thats crazy.

"Oh yes I miss the rain, the cold, the high taxes, the incompetent government..."

well, if your going out of the uk for a long period of time better save yourself a lot of trouble by getting british citizenship first.

my stepson is going back to the phils in april to go to uni, he's got ILR after only being in the uk less than 6 months, but to get citizenship he needs to be in the uk i think it was 5 years ...

i'm wondering if your on a workpermit, you get ilr , but go back to the phils for 2 years, then you've lost your ilr, and have to try to get a workpermit again, which maybe more difficult now to get than ever..

it's amazes me, that some people don't bother or know anything about visa's or immigration law even thou it effects them.. ignorance is not a defense. some people don't even realise that a spouse visa is for only 2 years, once it's expired your an overstayer and in many cases you will have to go back to your own country, apply for a spouse visa again , or they don't know you need to take the life in the uk test to.

[andypaul]

it's amazes me, that some people don't bother or know anything about visa's or immigration law even thou it effects them.. ignorance is not a defense. some people don't even realise that a spouse visa is for only 2 years, once it's expired your an overstayer and in many cases you will have to go back to your own country, apply for a spouse visa again , or they don't know you need to take the life in the uk test to.

Very true but with out sites like this its very hard to keep track on all the latest rules. Thats why i think we have all learned that you need to keep abreast of all the regulations.

For example when the wife and i married there was one procedure for applying fo the visa then it changed. When the wife was granted her visa only ten items were required by the time we got there it was twenty

The prices had changed the rules on the exam had changed.

Those that only think about the next step as it approaches are playing a risky game me thinks.

[joebloggs]

well your right,. and some people just don't care or are not aware, like one of the libyan guys i use to work with, well his wife has been in the uk more than 2 years now, and i'm pretty sure shes not took a the life in the uk test or any esol english course, or applied and paid £750 for ILR. well shes an overstayer now, and well i would have told him, but it's not my job to , and oh, i don't speak to who laugh at british soldiers getting blown up