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Hi Rodney!!! It's nice to hear from you :) Yes, you are probably right about the green cards. I hadn't heard of such a thing until I arrived here. That was a long time ago and I am still praying I can go home at some point. It is a long time in coming.

Are you still enjoying life in Britain? :)

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Yes Windsong I am still absolutely loving life in England, this is my favorite time of the year, its been raining heavy all day here in the south, I love the rain, always will :D
Coming home for good isn't possible for a lot of people on here, but thats alright too, life is very short and it dont matter where we are really as long as we can get some enjoyment out of life, and to try and be happy,
Cheers is coming home for a month soon, that will be good for him, he will love it!!!
Trotty is coming home for a holiday soon too, and I cant think of anyone that deserves a nice break over here then that lady,
So if a visit to UK is all some people can do right now ---- well me thinks thats fine,
I am just so grateful that I was able to come back home a couple of years ago to spend some time with my Mum, she's 94 in June, me 68 in June,
Take care,
Rodney.

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You might find out that the US passport is about half the price of a US issued UK passport.
US passport is issued by the US State Department.

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Ohh, so you were referring to the US passport ;) I didn't even think of that. I always think of the British passport lol. I thought it odd that the State Dept in the USA would have anything to do with issuing British passports.

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I am so glad you are enjoying it, Rodney :thumbsup:

I will get back there eventually, hopefully within the next couple of years :) Until then, it remains my dream ;)

If your mum is 94, then you must be doing a lot of good for her - and she for you :)))

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Checked my credit card today and Washington has taken the money for Dd's UK passport :thumbsup: I also balanced my check book to find the cheque for my US passport has been cashed, so :thumbsup::thumbsup: new passports winging their way to us I hope.
:fingerscrossed: That our next ones needing renewal are done from UK.

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Sprog.

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Cheers, pity you hadn't come last year before we left Kent, we were minutes away from Ashford, we could have met up for a pint. Did you say you were going to be visiting Downton Abbey?

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Good to see you back windsong. Hope the dream can begin to shift into reality.

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I suspect the rumours about Communist sympathies & involvement had something to do with his difficulties with the US govt.

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True - and it was also felt if he had appealed against the revoking of his re-entry permit then he could gained entry back to the US if he had wished. He chose not to and moved to Switzerland after sending his wife back to claim his fortune.

I think he was ready to move away and did not like the way the US goverment and the McCarthy investigations were blackballing artists using the threat of communist sympathies - which in many cases were unfounded - to blacken their names.

So really using Chaplin as an example of a man being denied entry back to the US after 40 years of legal and gainful employment is really a misleading one :sneaky:

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Lorac Long time no see! How's life back home treating you? Good to see you on the forum again!:starsmile:

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I have just posted a six month update in the "Back Home" section. Thought I would let my over 50 pals know as I don't think I am allowed to copy it into this thread.:)

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IF1 could you copy it into a link and post it on here, I would love to read it, its just that I dont know how to get into the back home section, yes you ARE able to post a link on this thread,

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Here you go, pal.

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Thanks Dunroving.

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Can you confirm the cost of the UK passport?

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Strictly speaking I'm only allowed to drink water but thanks for the thought. (Who follows strick rules:D)?

Yes we have tickets for Downton Abbey.

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There are few others who need to be checking in. Salt Spring Island, where are you?

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True but how many millionaires have sympathy for the commies?

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Rhyl? :eek: Poor you. :lol:

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It was a childs one and cost about $167 off the top of my head. could have been slightly more or less.

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I said Rhyl but I should have said Snowdonia. Is that better?

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Just looked it up and it is $211. Do you agree?

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$134 for a child.

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Much better


Hmmm I just went and checked my Credit card and they charged $167 maybe that includes the posting back to me? Or they've gone up yet again!

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Cheers, is this the cost of renewing a U.S. passport for an adult?

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SPROG? Whats it mean? :confused:

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No thats the cost of an Adult UK passport.
The US passport for an adult costs $110

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Army twang Roders.
Young. ********

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I am getting a bit concerned about matters in the UK. I have been doing a lot of reading on different sites. What is going on with the immigration over there? I have been reading about complaints from the UK citizens because some of the animals killed for meat are not stunned before they are killed (halal meat!) - and they should indeed be outraged at this! I never thought I would see the day when Britain would do such a thing.

Are there really so many immigrants over there that "our" British laws are being changed to accommodate them to the extent that it is destroying the British way of life? In my opinion, this is just not right! What other laws have changed because of all these immigrants?

I have also read about immigrants sapping the welfare benefits dry over and above UK-born citizens.

I went to university in Scotland with students from many other countries. They were my friends and I accepted them gladly. But if they want to stay in "my" country, then they adhere to UK laws. UK laws should not change to accommodate immigrants." If it destroys the British way of life, our culture, then surely some measures to prevent immigration, or at least so much of it, should be put in place. In other words, if they don't like the UK and living a British way of life, then they should perhaps consider leaving.

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Thanks dunroving,

Good post IF1, I love reading peoples updates on moving home, Ive written many posts on my moving home in the past 2 years, I think it really does help the folk that have not yet made the leap over the pond.

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Ohhhhhhhhhhh thanks bluenose ----- didn't know ----- never been in the Army, never liked taking orders, ------ I was more like the rebel James Dean type when I was young ;)

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Trust me young Rodney, you would have learnt, either the hard way or any other. :):)

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No. It is the cost to renew a British passport here in the UK.

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Thank you, Cheers :)

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Oh ho!

This is a touchy subject with some people. Look at the mess here in the US.
I forget how long you have been away from the UK but it is my impression that some cities in the UK you would be the foreigner.
I'm sure you would find the so called foreigners very nice as you mentioned the students you met in school in Scotland. They are hard working and law abiding with a few exceptions. It is the ones who are British and haven't had a good up bringing that you have to watch out for. For example just look at the number of policemen who have lost their lives while on duty and off duty recently. Shocking.
Windsong, I'm sure we are on the same page in our views but in the US and UK and in the rest of the world the makeup of the population is changing.
Think of the Carabbean and the South Pacific and how things have changed for them with the yuppies moving in from Germany, the UK and the US and Canada.

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I looked it up on Google and I'm still not sure I know what the meaning is.

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Yes, I understand what you are saying, Cheers. This animal/meat issue made me see red.

You are right. I was thinking about the USA after I wrote my post. Heaven forbid the UK should become the same, although I see many areas where it is moving in that direction - and many other countries, too. Here comes the global, multinational economies. :eek: :(

In one post I read, someone suggested the UK become what Switzerland is or used to be. Not a bad idea. It has also made me question what Scotland would do about immigration if Scotland ever became a separate country (although that is not my personal choice).

I didn't think about the problem being with the children/young adults of the immigrants but, of course, they are the ones who would be the problem because many of them were probably born in the UK and so it is now their country, too, and they practice what they have been taught by their parents and in their own "religious venues". I wish I could think of a good solution for this mess. Ohh, how I wish the people who pass these laws had thought out all of this much more clearly beforehand!!

Maybe, too, it is time the UK reverted to being an independent country, separate from the EU. I am darned if we should lose control over the laws of our own country.

Of course, no matter what is happening over there, it won't change my decision to return. It is always going to be better than the USA and, above all, it's home.

It would grieve me greatly to see the British culture disappear.

PS: I forgot to mention, per your comment, Cheers, that I have been away 30 years. I never wanted to come to the USA and always regretted it. At the time I had little choice in the matter.

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Sprog is a slang term for a child. :)