Sent the wenches application off mid December, robbing coonts charge £900 now, was just wondering if anyone has any recent experience of how long i am likely to wait before i hear the outcome.
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Sent the wenches application off mid December, robbing coonts charge £900 now, was just wondering if anyone has any recent experience of how long i am likely to wait before i hear the outcome.
Absolute liberty free when I done it in 2002 didn't even take the wife queued up with a load of Nigerians at Lunar House in Croydon was all sorted out on the day.Quote:
Originally Posted by buriramboy
You can still get it done on the day but think they charge about £1400 for that, was free up until 2007 i believe.
I can understand you have to pay if your a immigrant but the wife of a British Citizen just seems wrong.
Providing she gets it, think it is another £1000+ to apply for citizenship in another year when she's been here 3 years although i haven't looked too much into that, just hope she doesn't have to do another dumb 'life in the uk' test for that, although she did pass third time!!!!!
I was lucky with that managed to get a notary to certify that hear English was good enough to apply which you could do then, went to Harringey Council office where you get it fast tracked for a fee of £37 six weeks later we attended a ceremony where she was given her citizenship by the Pakistani Mayor of Greenwich.
used to work just past Lunar house in Croydon ,walking past it seeing all the delightful people entering Britain , never made for a good start to the day.
Few years ago, I think the turn around time, was about six weeks.
I thought I was robbed back then. Oh well, I suppose you've gotta help pay for Abdul`s younger third wife to get here.
The queue was massive at 6:00am the doors didn't open till 9 every day was the same.
Only reason i'm interested in time as need to get her a driving licence (provisional) and the twats want her passport for that, the haste being down to my local pub closing down last week, so now need a chauffer to go for a beer.
I like your thinking :)Quote:
Originally Posted by buriramboy
Have posted on another thread about this - my Taiwanese Ex- live in partner ( still very good friends)married to a Brit and now living in UK - spent about 1000 pounds getting her UK residence permit -valid for a year.
renewed it last year - no problem - tried to get another year ( working up towards citizen status) Speaks English better than me -also Japanese,Korean and about 6 Chinese dialects - works as an 'on call' interpreter for the regional police
Now been told ( by a Paki man at the Border agency) that she has to pay 34 pounds to take an Englisness exam
What the f*ck is happening i the UK ??
Quite a lot of ethnics working in the UKBA. It is part of the Home Office and therefore under the NuLabour stalinists it was in the frontline as a vehicle for upping the ratio between non whites and whites employed across the civil service. Siting the HQ for the old IND, now the UKBA, in Croydon was quite prescient in the 70's now that it is a largely a sinkhole for immigrants and white trash and therefore the perfect catchment area for Labour's social experiments.
Problem is, trying to understand what they are saying on the telephone is almost an impossible task. Quite ironic really but probably largely irrelevant since most of the time the person dealing hasn't a clue about what it is he or she is paid to do.
All in all, a useful metaphor for modern Britain.
and yours?Quote:
Originally Posted by daveboy
It is a bureaucratic nonsense, all the hoops and problems they make trying to get citizenship etc, and they make you pay through the nose
so anyone trying to stay in the country legally gets robbed and stuffed
meanwhile, 3 million illegal immigrants are pouring into the country daily
It doesn't just seem wrong Dave it is wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by daveboy
The government is under a lot of pressure to do something about immigration and come up with statistics that prove they are tackling the problem . However, its not so easy to get the sort of statistic they want since there is little they can do to stem the new tide of economic migrants coming in from the European Union. Then there are people from the Indian sub continent who have family in the U.K. and have the inside track getting help from their relatives.
This leaves the government looking for soft targets to fill up its quota. And Thais are in the soft target zone.
My nephew met a girl from Slovakia whilst working on a contract in Ireland. She has come to live with him and has brought her two children along. They were immediatley given housing benefit coming to nearly 700 a month and child benefit for the two children. In addition, she is claiming unemployment benefit.
Does that sound fair considering what those with a Thai wife have to put up with ?
IT makes my head burst, phut hua.
Friend of mine moved back to the UK with his Thai Missus 5 years ago. Two months ago she got her citizenship. Last week, I find out she's kicked him out and filed for divorce. :(
I guess there's always the option to go back and get another one. Maybe a younger model!?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gerbil
Absolutely not.Quote:
Originally Posted by BangyaiIt doesn't just seem wrong Dave it is wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by daveboy
The government is under a lot of pressure to do something about immigration and come up with statistics that prove they are tackling the problem . However, its not so easy to get the sort of statistic they want since there is little they can do to stem the new tide of economic migrants coming in from the European Union. Then there are people from the Indian sub continent who have family in the U.K. and have the inside track getting help from their relatives.
This leaves the government looking for soft targets to fill up its quota. And Thais are in the soft target zone.
My nephew met a girl from Slovakia whilst working on a contract in Ireland. She has come to live with him and has brought her two children along. They were immediatley given housing benefit coming to nearly 700 a month and child benefit for the two children. In addition, she is claiming unemployment benefit.
Does that sound fair considering what those with a Thai wife have to put up with ?
Mines terrible :).Quote:
Originally Posted by DrAndy
That's his plan! :) Moving back next month - I believe he intends extended test drives of a few models rather than a long term purchase this time. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by hopskimoetI guess there's always the option to go back and get another one. Maybe a younger model!?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gerbil
missus got hers last november took 6 weeksQuote:
Originally Posted by buriramboy
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Originally Posted by Gerbil
it must have been awful for her having to wait so long before she could get rid of him!! that is not uncommon, I have heard it being discussed by the Thai mafia (wifes friends) in the UK several times
Speak head? Indeed.Quote:
Originally Posted by nevets
Strange why they all wait so long if that is their intention when all they have to do is claim a bit of domestic abuse and hey presto British passport.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrAndy