Immigrating to the UK with my girlfriend

[orel100x]

Wow....will have to talk to the girlfriend over this...I knew it was bad but had no clue it was THAT bad...we just wanted to move SOMEWHERE so we could buy a reasonably priced and sized house for our future. Guess we’ll have to reconsider our options then. What can I do though? We need a permanent home if we are to get married(her parents request not hers) but getting our own place is nigh-impossible unless I become a Director/CEO in a few years...

Buy in Portugal - property is relatively cheap. You both can also get local residency and, eventually, citizenship, which will save you from Brexit's future limitations. And the weather is so much better. Win win win.

[dynamco]

Welcome to the 3rd world

https://www.bbc.com/news/education-45080539
BA boss demands action on Heathrow queues

[markranson]

The UK’s Border Force eh? The U.K. doesn’t even have a police “force” now, it’s a police service isn’t it? It’s thought the word “force” might offend someone and yet we have a supposed Border Force. Any organisation with the word FORCE in its title should be manned by personnel who can carry a 25kg pack over a mountain but the UK’s Border Force is manned by fat, wet bullies who derive pleasure from the inordinate amount of power they’ve been wrongly given. Power without responsibility and this is what do you get. Pathetic and shameful.

[dynamco]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...MCNEWEML6619I2

[hullexile]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...MCNEWEML6619I2

They are in the same position as most public sector workers (excluding MPs of course). 18% cut in real wages.

[dynamco]

yes indeed
they need the money to pay for the HKD 9 million a year rent for the British Consul apartment here when there are two empty floors in the Consulate building since they did away of providing convenient passport services to British citizens here in HKG