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Forum: France

Dec 20th 2015, 2:44 pm

Replies: 77

Regret?

Views: 10,830

Posted By melbo

Re: Regret?

FWIW I thought I'd update things a bit. We did move to the UK, been here 7 months now. Love it! So many of the things that drove us nuts in France just melted away. We're in the UK now and happy to...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Mar 30th 2015, 6:27 am

Replies: 12

Entry Clearance : where to apply?

Views: 2,066

Posted By melbo

Re: Entry Clearance : where to apply?

Well I'm happy to report that things worked out for us! On Friday I picked up my passport with the UK "EEA FP" Visa inside. Now where's that "happy dance" emoticon? :D

When we actually had the...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Mar 24th 2015, 7:15 am

Replies: 12

Entry Clearance : where to apply?

Views: 2,066

Posted By melbo

Re: Entry Clearance : where to apply?

Yes, we applied for an EEA Family Permit. Normally we'd be disqualified from this because my wife holds a UK passport but the "Surinder Singh" clause applies to us (as far as we can tell) so that's...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Mar 19th 2015, 9:31 am

Replies: 4

British passport, Canadian spouse

Views: 913

Posted By melbo

Re: British passport, Canadian spouse

Fwiw, our story continues here: Entry Clearance : where to apply? (http://britishexpats.com/forum/citizenship-passports-spouse-family-visas-uk-196/entry-clearance-where-apply-853502/)

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Mar 19th 2015, 9:29 am

Replies: 12

Entry Clearance : where to apply?

Views: 2,066

Posted By melbo

Re: Entry Clearance : where to apply?

So, our visa application is in. It was a very odd experience because the people you end up dealing with -- Teleperformance here in France -- are completely _not_ UKVI people! They're just a...

Forum: France

Mar 19th 2015, 9:23 am

Replies: 23

document translations?

Views: 2,853

Posted By melbo

Re: document translations?

We ended up using Promolang. Quite satisfactory!

Forum: France

Mar 19th 2015, 9:10 am

Replies: 77

Regret?

Views: 10,830

Posted By melbo

Re: Regret?

No offence intended but personally I'm not much of an advocate of the "move there, be there and don't compare it to where you've been" philosophy. I've been rootless my entire life and the only real...

Forum: France

Mar 9th 2015, 4:11 pm

Replies: 77

Regret?

Views: 10,830

Posted By melbo

Re: Regret?

Don't know about the "wealthy" -- not exactly the crowd I run with :) -- but I do know that most of the self-employed and small business owners I know are packing their bags just like we are. Their...

Forum: France

Mar 9th 2015, 9:24 am

Replies: 77

Regret?

Views: 10,830

Posted By melbo

Re: Regret?

Reading this over a day later I realize that I hadn't stated the obvious: we reported our full income every year and paid what they asked.

The "n - 2" thing happens over and above that. Government...

Forum: France

Mar 9th 2015, 8:58 am

Replies: 23

document translations?

Views: 2,853

Posted By melbo

Re: document translations?

Great! Thank you. :)

Forum: France

Mar 8th 2015, 9:09 pm

Replies: 77

Regret?

Views: 10,830

Posted By melbo

Re: Regret?

Thanks cyrian, good advice. We have our first meeting with UKVI in a week so fingers crossed! :)

Forum: France

Mar 8th 2015, 3:30 pm

Replies: 23

document translations?

Views: 2,853

Posted By melbo

document translations?

Wondering if anyone can recommend an agency in Paris that will do certified translations of French documents into English. We're applying to UK Immigration and want to get things like Carte de...

Forum: France

Mar 8th 2015, 2:35 pm

Replies: 77

Regret?

Views: 10,830

Posted By melbo

Re: Regret?

My wife and I are from Canada, we were able to move to France in 2002 because she has UK citizenship. Our story looks something like this:

2002-2004 : in France (Paris) as tourists, great fun!
...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Feb 27th 2015, 5:14 pm

Replies: 12

Entry Clearance : where to apply?

Views: 2,066

Posted By melbo

Re: Entry Clearance : where to apply?

No worries! It's live and learn for us all. We've been stumbling down disheartening and dead-end paths on this for months now, it's such a BIG relief to finally get some good news.

Later: read all...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Feb 27th 2015, 4:16 pm

Replies: 12

Entry Clearance : where to apply?

Views: 2,066

Posted By melbo

Re: Entry Clearance : where to apply?

Many thanks all, this is great news!

We've been in France -- me with residency papers -- since 2004. A quick browse would indicate that we qualify on all necessary counts so this is looking really...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Feb 27th 2015, 11:12 am

Replies: 12

Entry Clearance : where to apply?

Views: 2,066

Posted By melbo

Entry Clearance : where to apply?

My wife holds a UK passport (by descent). I'm Canadian. We've been married for 14 years. We currently live in France (legally, tax-paying, etc) but want to move to the UK permanently. We are both...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Sep 29th 2014, 3:53 am

Replies: 4

British passport, Canadian spouse

Views: 913

Posted By melbo

Re: British passport, Canadian spouse

Not in the short term. Local citizenship would require language skills that I simply don't have. If it was necessary as part of a longer term strategy then possibly yes. Certainly not the way we...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Sep 28th 2014, 10:22 pm

Replies: 4

British passport, Canadian spouse

Views: 913

Posted By melbo

British passport, Canadian spouse

Hi, my wife and I would like to move to the UK but what with all the changes in the immigration laws etc we're rather lost. Before we head off to an Embassy to get the official word we'd like to get...

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