oh boy.. I thought the US in Trump era is anti-immigration.. Yet my US immigration visa is easy as a piece of cake.
oh boy.. I thought the US in Trump era is anti-immigration.. Yet my US immigration visa is easy as a piece of cake.
The first half I totally agree with. Not only did they treat us a criminals but accused us in writing in the first rejection of truly being criminals (child trafficking to be exact). Messed up my mental health but not the marriage in our case. As I have said before they truly are bastards.
The second half I don't agree with, everything was good for us in the UK and we faced no hostility, quite the opposite. Different cities, different experiences, different nationalities.
Totally see where you’re coming from.
Did the same with my SG wife recently, For is it was relatively straight forward but the fees and paperwork were a nightmare.
I’m a lot happier in the UK than I was in HK, Living in london for now as that’s where my wife can find work.
However the environment is certainly getting a lot worse since Brexit. Once she gets indefinite leave to remain we’re off.
Wow, I never knew it would cost so much. I wonder what the justification for this is? I mean the time taken to process this costs something, but surely there's no justification for this exorbitant amount. I guess the simple answer is to deter people from applying as the UK don't want foreigners (?)
Agree with you. A lot of people just don't appreciate what is going on and how difficult it is to bring your spouse or partner into the UK. Just yesterday I heard from a friend that his grandson went to China to teach English. Whilst there married a Chinese girl and they had a baby. He now realises that it is nearly impossible for him to return to the UK with his wife and baby.
So many people in this situation. I imagine that for him it's because he can't prove an adequate income (there are additional requirements if you have kids). But the number of people who have said to me 'oh, can't your husband just get a UK passport now automatically because you're married?' Erm, no. I think people are vaguely aware of the issues with immigration but if they are white/hold a UK passport they don't think it will apply to them. It very much does.
And in response to another poster asking about the exorbitant application fees: yes, it is a deterrent. On some of these applications the UKBA makes an 800% profit.
I would seriously ask the original poster whether he wants to go to a country where he and his wife are so clearly not welcome.
I too face the problems of UK government hostility towards Brits with foreign spouses/partners. It’s bad enough for the couple, but for those with children, it’s a policy that’s up there with illegal immigrants to the US being separated from their kids. Except in our cases, most of us are not doing anything illegal, we just want to live in the UK with our foreign partners/spouses.
There is a movement in the U.K. making some noise about this but not much it appears. Do we just accept that being in a multicultural relationship gives our government some kind of authority to deny us the right to family or do we try to do something about it? If so what? Any ideas out there?