To keep you updated.... Demanded to speak to the branch manager this morning - after waiting 20 minutes again endured an avalanche of apologies and comments such as "i understand this must be terribly upsetting for you and your wife" and "thank you, so much for letting me know what ha...

We have spoken to a few providers, who informed us that they would be happy to accept my wife on her current visa status. However, the times they are quoting to complete an application are simply far too long - the smallest was 3 weeks and the biggest was 6 weeks. So the sad truth could be that we a...

Thanks for the help - the only problem we have now is that the property is basically now ours, and our move-in date is now supposed to be less than one month away. I'm not even sure we have time to apply somewhere else from scratch given the time it takes.... but we'll try. I am British, so my own s...

This situation is killing me.... My wife and I are looking to purchase our first property in Edinburgh. We contacted HSBC for a mortgage and this was accepted in principle. They then informed us we could go ahead and make offers, which we did (on a fixed price property). Being a fixed price property...