Filipino maid visa for UK visit
#16
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Her contract (that would prove she has been with you over a year)
Salary slips to prove she has an income and you provide it
Your last 6 months bank statements
Plus all the documents they ask for in the application (photo etc...)
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Get a ****ing grip and deal with your own kids.
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I've taken my maid/ nanny back to the UK loads, you do need to have children travelling with you (in fact with the Schengen visa for Europe you are not allowed to apply for one without children). It does help that our lady lived in Birmingham for a couple of years with her previous employer. She still gets her annual leave too, that's entirely separate, that's when she is not working.
You can't apply until you've had her for one year, and the turn around time at summer is a bit longer (up to two weeks). Fill out the form online and then book an appointment. They make it difficult to find, fill in so that it easier to reject you as there are so many abscondees.
As your helper will be an ODW (overseas domestic worker), you must pay her at least UK minimum wage and subscribe to UK employment law. That is very important, it is the law and you shouldn't take advantage. Last year, the law changed to the visa being connected to you as a family (as in only allowed to work with you) as before the visa was granted to them to work for anyone they wanted.
Just to note, that I've done as much as I can to help maids here and there, even introducing the Visa department to http://www.kalayaan.org.uk/ to help them sort out genuine abuse cases.
You can't apply until you've had her for one year, and the turn around time at summer is a bit longer (up to two weeks). Fill out the form online and then book an appointment. They make it difficult to find, fill in so that it easier to reject you as there are so many abscondees.
As your helper will be an ODW (overseas domestic worker), you must pay her at least UK minimum wage and subscribe to UK employment law. That is very important, it is the law and you shouldn't take advantage. Last year, the law changed to the visa being connected to you as a family (as in only allowed to work with you) as before the visa was granted to them to work for anyone they wanted.
Just to note, that I've done as much as I can to help maids here and there, even introducing the Visa department to http://www.kalayaan.org.uk/ to help them sort out genuine abuse cases.
#19
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I do hope that you all fly business and leave the kids and maid in economy.
#20
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I reckon she'll look ok pushing the trolley around Aldi and stocking up for knickers and socks in Primark .
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Ha! I wish. Only fly in the swankier cabins when travelling by myself. Don't want the sprogs all knowing about the luxury and bankrupting us over the years. The mortgage isn't paying itself off!
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several Qatari families who had gone to the United Kingdom for the summer holidays this year had to abruptly cut short their stay and return home because of the disappearance of their housemaids whom they had taken with them.
They also complained that the British police do not co-operate fully whenever a complaint is registered about an absconding maid.
several Qatari families who had gone to the United Kingdom for the summer holidays this year had to abruptly cut short their stay and return home because of the disappearance of their housemaids whom they had taken with them.
They also complained that the British police do not co-operate fully whenever a complaint is registered about an absconding maid.
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http://dohanews.co/post/31260188390/...s-as-number-of
several Qatari families who had gone to the United Kingdom for the summer holidays this year had to abruptly cut short their stay and return home because of the disappearance of their housemaids whom they had taken with them.
They also complained that the British police do not co-operate fully whenever a complaint is registered about an absconding maid.
several Qatari families who had gone to the United Kingdom for the summer holidays this year had to abruptly cut short their stay and return home because of the disappearance of their housemaids whom they had taken with them.
They also complained that the British police do not co-operate fully whenever a complaint is registered about an absconding maid.
Many Qatari ladies expressed shock and disgust at the manner in which some employment agencies in the UK lure housemaids with the promise of salaries as high as £2,000 (QR13,000) a month and eight hours of work, the Arrayah Arabic daily reported…
“As soon as I landed in London and checked into a well-known hotel, I was shocked to find that my housemaid vanished in spite of the fact that her passport was in my custody. She later sent me a message confessing to her act and expressing her gratitude to me and her love for my children! She said she has given up service with me for better employment terms,” Umm Mohamed said in a statement to the daily.
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http://dohanews.co/post/31260188390/...s-as-number-of
several Qatari families who had gone to the United Kingdom for the summer holidays this year had to abruptly cut short their stay and return home because of the disappearance of their housemaids whom they had taken with them.
They also complained that the British police do not co-operate fully whenever a complaint is registered about an absconding maid.
several Qatari families who had gone to the United Kingdom for the summer holidays this year had to abruptly cut short their stay and return home because of the disappearance of their housemaids whom they had taken with them.
They also complained that the British police do not co-operate fully whenever a complaint is registered about an absconding maid.
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Re: Filipino maid visa for UK visit
People who tell me off for having a maid are the same people that would abuse me for not spending time with them doing homework, taking them to after school activities, etc whilst holding down a fulltime job.
That said - family holidays are for family only, and our maid is not family. If we need a babysitter, we use family to help us, or we pay for a babysitter. With both of us working, holidays are for spending time with the kids, not away from them.
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The rest is a massive argument which, again, I'll be told that my opinion is worth less because I haven't got kids.
Still, I guess no kids in the UK have both parents working and no maid...
#28
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Taking your maid home with you should be maid a criminal offence.....
Mandatory 4 years should suffice , ive never heard so much shite !
Mandatory 4 years should suffice , ive never heard so much shite !
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