Hi, can anyone give a current accurate time frame for Medicals to Requests for passport? and then how long it takes for the visa to be issued from there.

Thanks

VictoriaS wrote:Many people who work on the front line in consulates do not know the rules. Worrying, but true.

Victoria

So going to chat to them face to face is unlikely to get better results?
We'll stick to net surfing for answers for now then

While we're on this topic...

Is it vital that the sponsoring partner has a job or are savings enough?

ie... enter the UK together and then look for jobs from there.

Thats what I thought... gawd stupid embassy. I spose it would be more beneficial to go speak to them face to face....

My fiance phoned up the British embassy in SA today to check up on a few things.. didn't get very far. After mentioning that he is a german citizen, the lady on the other side of the phone insisted that he would need a job offer before entering the UK. Now according to the EU stuff, he should be abl...

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(2) These Regulations shall not apply to a family member unless the family member is lawfully resident in another Member State and is..... Begs the question... what are they trying to achieve and why forget to mention it to the Irish Embassy's around the world? Well, I'll sit here on the sidelines a...

Just spoke to the Irish Embassy here, the verdict is all of you probably have other problems... The important thing, the lady says, is to aquire a spouse visa here and register within 7 days of landing in Ireland... Wonder if the Irish Govt knows this... :roll: Oh yeah, was told to visit this site: ...

He's not from Germany. Both of us were born and bred in SA, he is just lucky enough to have a German mother pass on the citizenship. While this doesn't seem like a bad idea(he has family in Germany we could stay with), there is a problem with the language. While he can speak German, its not fluent a...

ShoeApple: Thanks, Ireland is deff first choice at the mo, have a coupla months here still, going to Canada for a bit and will only be in Europe early next year... Hopefully by then they are somewhat further along in the process. If not, there are other options, but I don't want to resort to them ju...

It is a great privilige to be allowed to live in and gain citizenship of another country. Not something to be treated so lightly! :( Muwahahaha!! Let me give you a picture: 1998 - family applies to immigrate to Canada 2000 - denied on a stupid technicality, an area where we needed one point and rec...

Thanks Archigabe, I'll give the Irish Embassy here in SA a call tomorrow and ask them about all of this. Reading other posts has told me they aren't always the most clued up, but hopefully having researched first, I'll be able to get decent answers from them. Mostly reading stuff gives me more quest...

Confuzzled: Sincerest apologies, I forgot that the young always know better. oh for $#&^%** I am pissed of with forum ppl always taking everything so bloody personally... I am here looking for information, as much as possible... a simple, "give up go to UK" doesn't do it for me. I wan...

yeeeeah... The UK doesn't sound like a fun place to live :roll: Well, the Ireland thing might be permanently, it depends honestly if we like it better than Canada. Reason we not going straight to Canada is because I'm still a student and he will be able to earn much better than me, plus Canada requi...

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