[Nottingham] Warning: non-Linux post
Denny
dennis.furr at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 18:01:00 UTC 2016
Well clearly that's what you get for not inviting them to the wedding.
It seems a little steep but adjusting for inflation the cost isn't that
far out of what I'd expect. The documentation requirements on the other
hand seem a bit OTT. That's more than I was (relatively) recently asked
for for my SC clearance.
It appears that the Home Office learnt a lesson when they allowed me to
immigrate and they are determined not to let that happen again. :)
On 07/09/16 17:58, Daryl via Nottingham wrote:
>
> The rules have been repeatedly tightened up. The financial and proof
> of relationship requirements are very stringent now. The Conservatives
> are to blame for a lot of this.
>
> I have to supply 12 months bank statements and payslips. In addition
> to many bills, mortgage statement, council tax bill, children's birth
> certificates, my divorce papers. In addition a letter from my
> employer. I have paid £105 for a housing report despite my owned home
> being a new 4 build that ONLY I live in full time.
>
> On top of that is flight tickets, a relationship timeline and around
> 50 photos of us. Oh, and greeting cards, telephone and IM logs.
> Yes...and proof of wedding including photos and bills.
>
> A copy of my passport and a couple of things I am sure I have forgotten.
>
> The whole thing is costing me £2500 which lasts 2.5 years and then I
> need to pay another £1800 to renew for another 2.5 years until she can
> apply to stay permanently.
>
> Who would have thought this was my right as a British citizen?
>
>
> On 7 Sep 2016 16:36, "Fluf Lagomorph via Nottingham"
> <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>>
> wrote:
>
>
> Indeed, unless the rules have changed quite substantially since we
> did the same back in 2000 (and we've also just celebrated 16 years
> of being married), then you've probably sent some serious overkill
> that will almost certainly never be fully... appreciated?
>
> We used (paper!) letters we'd sent to one another along with plane
> ticket stubs and photographs of us together, and that was
> perfectly sufficient.
>
> (That and there was no way in hell I was sending them copies of
> our ICQ logs. If they want the makings of trashy romance novels
> then they can bloody well write their own!)
>
> Best wishes from another US/UK couple,
>
> -Stef (& Andy)
>
>
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2016, Martin via Nottingham wrote:
>
> Deary deary me... That's more like a Petition!
>
> Hope your great work is suitably protected under the GPL or
> other so
> that others may learn and enhance and develop the Human race
> onwards!
>
> :-P
>
>
> More seriously... That required divulgement is rather
> seriously intrusive.
>
> Cue XKCD:
>
> https://xkcd.com/257/
>
> Hope you've run it through a Barbara Woodhouse BBC bleep-box!!
>
> (Cue all immigration coming to a standstill as the officials
> suffer a
> melee of giggles huddled around Daryl's IM memories...)
>
>
>
> Good luck for your both :-)
>
> Partying soon, yeah! ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
> (Aside: Was not the use of Facebook a clever ploy to subvert
> the USA at
> their own game? ... A sort of reverse-cyber 'probe'??... ;-) )
>
>
>
> On 07/09/16 07:40, Daryl via Nottingham wrote:
>
> It was Facebook messenger - and I appreciate that Martin
> would not
> approve! However, in some ways I am glad. The fact that FB
> store so much
> information was useful in this case. Without this history
> things would
> have been much more difficult to prove.
>
>
> On 7 Sep 2016 07:28, "Neal Ponton via Nottingham"
> <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
> <mailto:nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> <mailto:nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
> <mailto:nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>>>
> wrote:
>
> I had misread that. I see now that you already did it.
> Doh!
>
> I hope you proof-read it before sending in!
>
>
> 7. Sep 2016 07:23 by nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
> <mailto:nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> <mailto:nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
> <mailto:nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>>:
>
> Some in the group may know I spend a lot of time
> on my phone
> talking to my American girlfriend (I try at the
> socials to not
> be rude and actually put my phone down). I needed
> to create a
> PDF of my IM history for immigration reasons.
>
> 3221 pages of A4. I'm rather impressed with that!
>
> I should point out that I put it on a USB stick
> and did NOT
> print it out!
>
>
>
>
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