Moving to the UK with HK wife

[shri]

Reading through this is a bit of a wake up call for me. With the son hoping to go to Uni in the UK and both him and the Mrs being British Citizens, I had assumed it would be relatively easy for me to figure out long term options for the UK, now that the EU option is not seems to be shutting down.

Thanks KS for the brticits link. Looks like good weekend reading.

[chuckster007]

Myself and the Kid have British Passports but the Mrs is a HK local, might just have to dump her and go to the UK, probably easier Waahaahaaa LOL

[kimwy66]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...eign-spouse-uk

[hullexile]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...eign-spouse-uk

Their response to me on this was that they were not stopping my right to a family life - we could always live together abroad. The fact that my job was in the UK and that was the family's only means of support didn't count.

[kimwy66]

Given the hardline on Brexit that is emerging I wonder what will happen with the foreign spouse rules. The must be a significant number of British married to Europeans and living in the EU. As it appears they will be required to have a visa to continue living in an EU state, which many retired people won't qualify for on financial or language, and the value of their pension is crashing so they can't afford to live outside the UK, what is going to happen when they try to bring their European spouses back to the UK? If the rules remain in place there could be thousands left in limbo.

[TheBrit]

I hope that exemptions for Brits living in the EU and EU citizens in the UK are one of the sensible compromises that our elected politicians will be able to stretch to.

[civil_servant]

I hope that exemptions for Brits living in the EU and EU citizens in the UK are one of the sensible compromises that our elected politicians will be able to stretch to.

Considering what has been happening so far, the odds are stacked against sensible.

[HowardCoombs]

I hope that exemptions for Brits living in the EU and EU citizens in the UK are one of the sensible compromises that our elected politicians will be able to stretch to.

Stubborn ass on one side and a bunch of stubborn goats on the other.

Sensible compromise be damned - mutual destruction of wealth is the order of the day.

[Mat]

Reading through this is a bit of a wake up call for me. With the son hoping to go to Uni in the UK and both him and the Mrs being British Citizens, I had assumed it would be relatively easy for me to figure out long term options for the UK, now that the EU option is not seems to be shutting down.

Thanks KS for the brticits link. Looks like good weekend reading.

it's OK - the UK better neighbor France will welcome you

[shri]

it's OK - the UK better neighbor France will welcome you

If EU is the way to go ... paella trumps coq au vin.