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Search: Posts Made By: choccydog
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Forum: New Zealand
Jan 2nd 2008, 7:42 pm
Replies: 68
Views: 5,850
Posted By choccydog

Re: Urgent Homeless Teenager help needed

A bit unfair IMV to be over-judgmental about the parents in this situation.

We don't know all the facts.

Devil's advocate: son could be absolutely terrible and nearly impossible to live with....
Forum: New Zealand
Jan 2nd 2008, 6:22 pm
Replies: 68
Views: 5,850
Posted By choccydog

Re: Urgent Homeless Teenager help needed

I am not exactly with Birkinshaw on this one but unless you understand the circumstances you can't do more than give general and possibly wrong advice.

For instance my elder bro who got kicked out...
Forum: New Zealand
Jan 1st 2008, 4:48 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 892
Posted By choccydog

Re: Money conversion query?

Oh and National Bank allowed us to open an account before we'd arrived in NZ. Gave us a mortgage before we'd got jobs, too - branch mgrs have (or used to have) reasonable discretion.
Forum: New Zealand
Jan 1st 2008, 4:43 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 892
Posted By choccydog

Re: Money conversion query?

It is generally best to use a specialist: get a couple such as Moneycorp, HIFX and why not NZforex (since I see it advertises here) to quote you at a specific time for a dummy conversion. You will...
Forum: New Zealand
Jan 1st 2008, 8:11 am
Replies: 68
Views: 5,850
Posted By choccydog

Re: Urgent Homeless Teenager help needed

My elder brother was kicked out by my parents at nearly 17 after a 'last straw' series of incidents (very bad behaviour had gone on a couple of years).

Unfortunately he turned out much worse in...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Dec 29th 2007, 3:20 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 7,258
Posted By choccydog

Re: Entry Clearance

Thanks for that. Noted.

Inheritance: I read that if I die first, wife (Hungarian) can only inherit £80k tax free then has to pay tax @ 40% currently on the remainder.
Forum: New Zealand
Dec 29th 2007, 3:14 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 591
Posted By choccydog

Re: New Dilemma

In that case your wife can cope fine on the plane, not as if they are 6 months, 2 and 4 (with autism) like the last time we travelled there! LOL

Go there 3 weeks early and enjoy the space.
...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Dec 29th 2007, 3:11 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 6,248
Posted By choccydog

Re: Moving to England as Hungarian Citizen

As long as you've got a Hungarian passport it's all automatic, a few minutes to register and you can work away LOL
Forum: China/Hong Kong
Dec 29th 2007, 3:07 pm
Replies: 13
Views: 1,877
Posted By choccydog

Re: language in Hong Kong

impossible ;-)
Forum: New Zealand
Dec 29th 2007, 2:57 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 591
Posted By choccydog

Re: New Dilemma

How old and how many are your kids?
Forum: New Zealand
Dec 29th 2007, 2:52 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 561
Posted By choccydog

Re: Invercargill chronicle - chronic

That's true and one of the best things about NZ. When some ditz went into the back of my truck in Dunedin and I got the repairs authorised at the insurance office then jokingly added 'and my neck's a...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Dec 29th 2007, 2:45 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 7,258
Posted By choccydog

Re: Entry Clearance

I guess you know your stuff better than ever, Jeremy, as times goes by. Congrats ;-). Trouble is all those options cost serious money so we'll be waiting the 5 years.

Main reasons we are doing it...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Dec 29th 2007, 5:09 am
Replies: 19
Views: 7,258
Posted By choccydog

Re: Entry Clearance

JAJ - how about this one: it's impossible for EU spouses of UK nationals to get UK citizenship in the same 3 years. They have to wait the full 5 years. Why should they be disadvantaged in this way?
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Dec 28th 2007, 7:07 am
Replies: 4
Views: 768
Posted By choccydog

Re: Another question on descent...

You are a born in UK British citizen. Therefore you can pass on UK citizenship to your children wherever they are born in the world. One UK citizen as parent is sufficient.

However your children...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Dec 28th 2007, 5:56 am
Replies: 48
Views: 4,758
Posted By choccydog

Re: Obtaining Dual Citizenship and moving abroad in the EU

Once you can demonstrate UK citizenship, you can freely travel/ work/ study pretty much everywhere in the EU plus usually in Switzerland, too. Norway also has various reciprocal agreements.
...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Dec 28th 2007, 5:44 am
Replies: 15
Views: 4,322
Posted By choccydog

Re: shipping car back to uk

SVA test might be more strict than MOT!

I also was suckered into buying a mph/km converter (magnetic disc that sticks on top of the original dial) by reading the import literature, too. Complete...
Forum: New Zealand
Dec 27th 2007, 7:55 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 561
Posted By choccydog

Re: Invercargill chronicle - chronic

Last time I pulled a Christmas cracker I was young free and single and we all had far too much to drink LOL
Forum: New Zealand
Dec 27th 2007, 7:32 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 561
Posted By choccydog

Re: Invercargill chronicle - chronic

Yeah but we normally pull our crackers AFTER the food so how did it spoil her appetite?
Forum: New Zealand
Dec 27th 2007, 6:32 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 561
Posted By choccydog

Invercargill chronicle - chronic

A GRAN got more than she bargained for when she pulled a Christmas cracker - and a rotting mouse popped out.

Betty Lawrence, a grandmother from New Zealand's South Island, sat down to Christmas...
Forum: Middle East
Dec 27th 2007, 4:37 pm
Replies: 13
Views: 788
Posted By choccydog

Re: Benazir Bhutto has been killed

She can't say she wasn't warned, silly moo, RIP.

Should have heeded advice and kept her head down a bit more.

Would have done more good.
Forum: New Zealand
Dec 27th 2007, 4:31 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 571
Posted By choccydog

Re: What is the weather like in March?

Autumn in Italy
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Dec 27th 2007, 11:13 am
Replies: 10
Views: 4,143
Posted By choccydog

Re: british citizen by birth or decent?

The real issue here is the next generation.

My kids are all British by descent having been born outside UK - but with me as a true born in UK Brit father they automatically got UK passports and...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Dec 27th 2007, 11:06 am
Replies: 15
Views: 4,322
Posted By choccydog

Re: shipping car back to uk

Shipped my car back (see NZ thread) no hassle at all but was over 10 years old so no import duty, VAT, SVA test just rear fog lamp (not necessary these days to change kms odometer to miles BTW) and...
Forum: New Zealand
Dec 27th 2007, 9:17 am
Replies: 15
Views: 1,118
Posted By choccydog

Re: baby

Congrats Lizard. You're not so different in age/kids to us if you see what I mean - I'm 44 with wife a few years younger and kids just 7, nearly 5, nearly 3. Sure takes it out of us 'older' parents!...
Forum: New Zealand
Dec 27th 2007, 8:00 am
Replies: 2
Views: 459
Posted By choccydog

Re: Exporting car from NZ

Forgot to say that we could have got about NZD14000-16000 for the Surf at the time, we were running pretty close to GBP1 = NZD3 at the time so call it £5-5500. Maybe more from private sale.
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