Want to move but cannot afford to move back any suggestions?
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Since 2004 foreign same-sex marriages can be registered in the UK as civil partnerships, which confer the exact same rights & priviledges on British soil as civil marriage between heterosexuals.
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Remember that one of the candidates for post of the year 2012 was someone who said he left the UK for the US after seeing the price of washing up liquid (or something similar) in the supermarket.
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My heart goes out to you...I want to go back to Britain after 31 yrs in US. The only way I can do it is to just get on the plane and go. I never did get my citizenship here, and I am quite glad I didn't now. Good luck with your plans. Keep us posted!
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My British Passport is the most valuable thing I own.
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LOL I was just home and thought most things in Tesco were much cheaper than anything in Walmart. Especially fruit and veggies a whole bag of kiwi fruits for a pound bargain You can definitely eat better for cheaper back home than you can here in NY.
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Thanks Im probably going to go home in the Summer and hopefully get a job back in my old work place while my hubby stays here and saves til he can apply for his visa.
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No, you don't face any financial requirements if you and your wife move to another EU country and follow the Surinder Singh route to settlement in the UK.
You (as the UK/EU citizen) move to an EU country with your non-EEA spouse and find work there--it's called exercising your EU treaty rights. The work you find doesn't need to have any specific salary amount. It can be any job, paying anything, but it must be documented and contribute taxes to the host country. No under-the-table, cash-only payment--you must have a documented, proveable job for around 6 months (to be safe).
Then you have your wife apply for an EU Family Permit, which is free, and which requires only that the EU citizen (you) has worked legally in that EU country. When she receives the EU FP, you can both move to the UK.
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/eu...family-permit/
Do a search on Surinder Singh route to family reunification in the UK. Here's a good thread to start with:
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=776431
You (as the UK/EU citizen) move to an EU country with your non-EEA spouse and find work there--it's called exercising your EU treaty rights. The work you find doesn't need to have any specific salary amount. It can be any job, paying anything, but it must be documented and contribute taxes to the host country. No under-the-table, cash-only payment--you must have a documented, proveable job for around 6 months (to be safe).
Then you have your wife apply for an EU Family Permit, which is free, and which requires only that the EU citizen (you) has worked legally in that EU country. When she receives the EU FP, you can both move to the UK.
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/eu...family-permit/
Do a search on Surinder Singh route to family reunification in the UK. Here's a good thread to start with:
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=776431
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Ditto! and it is REAL food not the over processed crap the supermarkets around here sell! I was amazed at the prices when we were there in Dec. I thought clothes were a tad more expensive but I did not really do a lot of shopping as I caught that nasty Norwalk virus and was out of commission for 5 days.
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Re: Want to move but cannot afford to move back any suggestions?
Hello fellow expats here is the deal my husband (American) and I were all set to move back to Scotland where I am from. Only after ready the new change in the law of me now needing 18,600 pounds in savings or a job we cannot afford it. I am deeply homesick and have never really settled in here and we finally had made the decision to go back only to run into this. I have read that some other people have gotten loans for the visa application im not sure how viable that is or if you are even allowed to do it?? I only work part time my husband is the full time earner in our house. I just wondered if there are other people in the same boat and if there are any other ways of doing this apart from me having to go home first and getting a job before he can apply for his visa. Tanks for any info you can give me
I wish you both luck and hope we both (and anyone else in the same boat)can find a way. I do understand as we have family and friends in the UK and the things we enjoy doing are there.
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Re: Want to move but cannot afford to move back any suggestions?
Hello fellow expats here is the deal my husband (American) and I were all set to move back to Scotland where I am from. Only after ready the new change in the law of me now needing 18,600 pounds in savings or a job we cannot afford it. I am deeply homesick and have never really settled in here and we finally had made the decision to go back only to run into this. I have read that some other people have gotten loans for the visa application im not sure how viable that is or if you are even allowed to do it?? I only work part time my husband is the full time earner in our house. I just wondered if there are other people in the same boat and if there are any other ways of doing this apart from me having to go home first and getting a job before he can apply for his visa. Tanks for any info you can give me
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Am I correct in assuming that the need to have SO much money to move back to the UK is a UK law and not an EU law? I have been away a long time so I am a bit out of touch with who is making what law over there these days.
If this law does not apply to other countries in the EU, so long as it is possible to get a job and surpass the language difficulties, it is the way to go, I think.
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You cannot get a loan for this, when you apply you have to show where the money came from via your bank statements, i'm sure there are ways around this like having the money go into a friends account then into yours, but then you need to hold onto it for 6 maybe 12 months, cant remember the time and you need to have the same amount of money in 2.5 years as well, unless you in that time have a job equal or above 18600.
To be honest, considering (assuming here) you have no kids, if i was you, i'd just go back get a job (i think 18600 is pretty attainable, hope i'm not wrong), stay for 6 months. Then apply for your husband to come over.
To be honest, considering (assuming here) you have no kids, if i was you, i'd just go back get a job (i think 18600 is pretty attainable, hope i'm not wrong), stay for 6 months. Then apply for your husband to come over.
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I hope it is before 2015
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I agree but the apparent utter incompetence of how the law was thought out means that it has had the unintended or intended effect, depending on your viewpoint of disadvantaging British citizens worldwide who have foreign born spouses. This may well have been considered when drafting the law, if so the incompetence or deliberate disregard for British citizens, where ever they may originally hail from is scandalous.
The more I look at this the more I see a bright future for UK immigration lawyers challenging this one through the European courts. But that does not help the OP or others like them.
BTW I don't have a foreign born spouse (anymore ) but I still find it objectionable that expats seem to be targeted or fall into the cracks once again.
The more I look at this the more I see a bright future for UK immigration lawyers challenging this one through the European courts. But that does not help the OP or others like them.
BTW I don't have a foreign born spouse (anymore ) but I still find it objectionable that expats seem to be targeted or fall into the cracks once again.