Thank you Kevin. Your advice as well as John's and the others are very valuable and I really thank you for this forum and all your replies. I guess my first stop is to go with my husband when in UK to the Home Office and go from there. Enjoy your week-end, for us out here in Saudi Arabia, it's the f...

Just to clarify a bit more. We have a permanent base, we pay our taxes, we have Gas, TV, electricity bills, we have a joint account, my 3 kids are all in UK, we have all what you stated Kevin. I only pray it will work when we go and ask about it. I will keep you posted.

Thank you Kevin for your reply. I will think about that but is everything legal in what you said?

Thank you John. I will be leaving end of July and will keep you updated so someone else might benefit of the info. God bless you all...

Thank you for your replies.
My husband works for BAE systems. I pray that it counts as government contract.

After 25 years of marriage and living abroad, my 3 kids are back to UK and would like to join them My third is still at school and I am finding it difficult to cope without them. I am Lebanese married to a British citizen but we never lived in UK. I have applied recently to a 5 year family visit vis...