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Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Mar 3rd 2013, 4:02 pm
Replies: 239
Views: 13,153
Posted By dunroving

Re: American again, requesting relo ideas

It's not just employment - lack of a credit record or references (US references may not count) can also lead to needing big money up front.
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 26th 2013, 1:20 pm
Replies: 239
Views: 13,153
Posted By dunroving

Re: American again, requesting relo ideas

That's where my ignorance of the process comes in - so would this (NHS ineligibility of a spouse) apply to a spouse who enters as a tourist, while they are waiting for a spouse visa to be approved?...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 26th 2013, 12:50 pm
Replies: 239
Views: 13,153
Posted By dunroving

Re: American again, requesting relo ideas

Some text from the link to the archived document:

"If you do not have an automatic right to take up permanent residence but have applied to the Home Office for leave to enter/remain on a settled...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 26th 2013, 8:34 am
Replies: 239
Views: 13,153
Posted By dunroving

Re: American again, requesting relo ideas

It looks to me like "intend" is the key word here - in which case a spousal visa could be regarded as a step towards permanent residence (via ILR) and therefore one indicator of "intent" to reside...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 23rd 2013, 10:25 pm
Replies: 239
Views: 13,153
Posted By dunroving

Re: American again, requesting relo ideas

It wasn't disingenuous at all. I was merely illustrating that one shouldn't assume benefits are for citizens only. Most residents of the UK get free full NHS cover - to single out the few exceptions...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 23rd 2013, 8:46 pm
Replies: 239
Views: 13,153
Posted By dunroving

Re: American again, requesting relo ideas

NHS is government funded too, but it's based on residence not citizenship ...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 23rd 2013, 5:37 pm
Replies: 239
Views: 13,153
Posted By dunroving

Re: American again, requesting relo ideas

Strange, I expected Glasgow to be purple (or black). ;)
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Feb 23rd 2013, 10:41 am
Replies: 239
Views: 13,153
Posted By dunroving

Re: American again, requesting relo ideas

I think I mentioned this on another thread where Eastbourne came up, but my soon-to-be-former PhD student is from there and she and her boyfriend (or life-partner, or whatever is the "in" term these...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Jan 28th 2013, 4:26 am
Replies: 239
Views: 13,153
Posted By dunroving

Re: American again, requesting relo ideas

Even though the cost of implementing means testing would essentially balance out the money saved? I think the problem with that is it would be perceived as pure spite. There has to be a financial...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Jan 27th 2013, 4:25 pm
Replies: 239
Views: 13,153
Posted By dunroving

Re: American again, requesting relo ideas

I think this thread has been derailed for a while (if you consider how/why it started). :lol:

But regards my rant, I think it's somewhat analogous to the off-hand mixing up of "real" scroungers...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Jan 27th 2013, 3:55 pm
Replies: 239
Views: 13,153
Posted By dunroving

Re: American again, requesting relo ideas

Alternatively, why shouldn't people who have saved instead of squandered get the same benefits as those who squandered instead of saved?

Or put another way, why shouldn't people who paid into the...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Jan 24th 2013, 6:28 pm
Replies: 239
Views: 13,153
Posted By dunroving

Re: American again, requesting relo ideas

The problem with means testing is that it costs so much and probably doesn't recoup enough to make it worthwhile.

The problem with removing all old age benefits is that it penalises the less...
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Jan 24th 2013, 6:12 pm
Replies: 239
Views: 13,153
Posted By dunroving

Re: American again, requesting relo ideas

There have been rumblings of means testing these and other "old age" benefits (winter fuel allowance, TV license).
Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)
Jan 17th 2013, 12:56 pm
Replies: 239
Views: 13,153
Posted By dunroving

Re: American again, requesting relo ideas

Just a separate note - in the UK, it's more difficult than the US to have a "yard dog" (i.e., leaving the dog out in the yard during parts of the day).

There are several reasons, but I found I...
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