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Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 4th 2013, 5:43 am
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

Your employment abroad does count. If you can prove income over the last six months at the required rate, you just need an offer of a job in the UK. No need to work six months first.
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 3rd 2013, 5:33 am
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

I don't quite understand why you consider yourself in such a mess Blackpudlian. You've got property, savings, income and shares. You are plenty wealthy enough to take your family home.

Lets be...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 2nd 2013, 5:29 am
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

Hi Blackpudlian. I am in a similar position. As a returning expat wishing to sponsor a spouse for a UK settlement visa, you will have to show 1. proof that you are returning to a job in the UK paying...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Nov 2nd 2012, 7:11 am
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

This is all fantastic news for UK citizens living abroad who wish to dump the non-European spouse and resettle in the UK with a British child of dual nationality. Instead of seeking permission from...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 31st 2012, 4:55 pm
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

You can bypass the financial and job requirements if you can show untouched savings of 62,000 pounds in the bank for six months before the application.

It's all about the money.
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 30th 2012, 9:08 am
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

I was thinking of writing a Blog about my family's predicament. It would help to explain the situation to friends and family and it might help others in the same situation.

What do you think...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 30th 2012, 8:57 am
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

From the BBC:

Immigration Minister Mark Harper says new laws will ensure tax payers aren't footing the bill for immigrants who bring their families to the UK.

I am not an immigrant and neither...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 29th 2012, 4:27 pm
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

A great many are in the same boat. I think we are going to need a bigger boat. :blink:
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 29th 2012, 7:23 am
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

I have lived and worked in Thailand for over 16 years. It would be advantageous to do the Tesol, but I would still earn no more than 40,000 to 60,000 per month.



Private teaching is always cash...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 28th 2012, 5:11 pm
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

The most I could possibly earn in Bangkok is around 60,000 baht salary per month (also at the British council). I can easily bump up my income by an extra 20,000 per month on privates though, even in...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 28th 2012, 3:46 pm
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

Yeah! Easy peasey! All I have to do to live in the Uk with my family is quit the job I have had for 10 years. Move my home and family to the capital for a year. Settle in the most expensive place in...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 28th 2012, 7:31 am
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

What is really galling about all this is the hypocrisy of the talk of "importance of the family" in British politics and society. In order for myself and my son to live in our own country we have to...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 28th 2012, 7:16 am
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

Mate, you deserve a medal for how you are taking your own terrible situation. I wish I could be as calm and accepting as you. What has happened to you is criminal and in the case of your wife being...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 27th 2012, 8:07 pm
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

I don't have any lawyer friends. I wish I did. I wish I had 62000 quid in the bank. I wish I didn't have to divide my family to have my son spend time with he aging grandparents and get an education....
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 27th 2012, 7:48 pm
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

This writer is saying the same thing.

http://www.freemovement.org.uk/2012/08/30/family-life-as-a-parent-the-new-rules/

If the child is British/settled with ILR in the UK

Under this strand,...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 27th 2012, 6:55 pm
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

The point is if I quit my job in Thailand and go back to the UK to find work I will have to abandon my wife and 3 year old child for a minimum of 9 months, but possibly a lot longer. In fact the plan...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 27th 2012, 6:10 pm
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

I be returning to the UK with my wife after a long period working overseas.

The guidance in the SOI states:

83. j . Where the sponsor has been working overseas and is returning to work in the...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 27th 2012, 6:09 pm
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

I be returning to the UK with my wife after a long period working overseas.

The guidance in the SOI states:

83. j . Where the sponsor has been working overseas and is returning to work in the...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 27th 2012, 5:26 pm
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

Hang on a mo! From the website previously posted here on the new immigration rules in regard to "Family life as a parent"
...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 27th 2012, 5:04 pm
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

Re- The relationship requirement for Entry clearance for "Family life as a Parent" on the UKBA website.

Can it not be interpreted like this:

E-ECPT.2.3. Either -

(a) the applicant must have...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 27th 2012, 4:31 pm
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

I am considering the Surinder Singh route. However I have some trepidation about stepping off a plane in a strange European city with a slightly scared wife and a whining toddler only to find myself...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 27th 2012, 3:59 pm
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

If we had applied four months ago it would have been a doddle. Not so now.

I would have to secure employment paying a salary of 18,600 pounds, with a contract. The job would have to start six...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 27th 2012, 6:39 am
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

I have been living in Thailand for the past ten years and working (officially) at a provincial University as an English teacher. My salary is modest and in line with similar government teaching jobs...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Oct 27th 2012, 6:08 am
Replies: 1,381
Views: 254,048
Posted By Sarus

Re: British citizen living abroad? Non-EEA spouse? This may affect you!

I have been reading through this whole thread with horror and a sense of doom. I am in a similar situation as others on this thread and would like to thank you all for your input over the previous...
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