Quote Originally Posted by fred View Post
I agree that the 13a visa works out by far the cheapest option long term but if Steve wants to just road test his new life here then perhaps the BB route would be best at first..
To be honest I'm not up-to-date on the 13a documents, but when I applied I needed to be careful that my documentations were less than 6 months old. Especially the Police Clearance.
I guess, if as in Steve's case, he has family still living at his UK address then all those needed docs could be secured at any time and then just DHL'd over to Phils.
I didn't need to make personal appearance for any of them.

Us Brits are still lucky in that we can still do all this 'remotely'.
I seemed to remember some folks (maybe Australian or Canadian) need to return home to get their docs.