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Congratulation for the expecting baby. You must be over joyed.andy and ann wrote:Hi all, I am in the middle of the process for my Filipina wife. I think I may well have gone in the wrong direction up until now on misinformation. I will give the full story below. I lived in Bulgaria for 18 months, and began chatting with a Filipina in February 2008 on skype. I then moved to the Philipines in October 2008 and we were married March 15 2009. Apart from a couple of holidays I haven't been in the UK for 2.5 years. I have been living off of savings and the proceeds of my house sale. Shortly after I arrived here we began living together, and have been together ever since. I am 37 and my wife 28, neither of us have been married before. We applied 4 weeks ago for a 6 month family visit visa, and are still awaiting the decision of this, and this is where it starts getting a little bit complicated.
We went to the clinic yesterday, and it is confirmed that my wife is pregnant, which we are overjoyed about, but also very concerned about too. I have just 12,000 UK pounds left in savings, and have to head back to the UK to try and get a job in the middle of a recession. So whatever job I get I will struggle I am sure to support my family and 12k won't last forever. Anyway onto my questions.
Should I inform them that my wife is pregnant?
If we get the visa, what will be the chances of getting the temporary leave to remain, so that she can stay with me? Not high is my guess due to my financial situaion.
Will healthcare costs be met by the NHS for everything to do with the pregnancy? I read that A&E and family planning are, but not sure if childbirth is included.
If we are in the UK at the time of birth, am I right in thinking the child would automatically become a UK citizen?
If we receive the visa, does it have certain dates on it or does the 6 month clock start ticking once she enters the country?
Sorry for some quite basic questions, especially like the last one, but we received 2 completely different answers for that one from the office dealing with the application!
Also any other useful advice would be gratefully recieved. Tomorrow we are travelling to a popular destination here to see if it is possible to open a guesthouse, it is highly unlikely there is a suitable property to lease, but no harm in looking as they say, but if there is then we would be in a much better position to push forward our plans.
Many thanks in advance for any help.
See also Eu Treaty rights- if exercised in ireland is it valid in uk?Obie wrote:You could also apply for a family visa under EU law, to other countries like Bulgaria where you have lived and have roots.
Once you are there, you can apply for an EEA family permit to enter UK under a law called singh rule. It is an uncomplicated process as well.You will not need to provide evidence of resources. You only need to have lived with your wife in another EU state to qualify.
Sorry about the refusal of your wife's visa.andy and ann wrote:Thanks a lot for all the help so far. Really appreciated! As if by coincidence the visa application was returned today, with the visa being denied.
Neither of us are working. I have been living off of savings, and I asked my wife to quit her job shortly after I arrived here. This point was one of the main points of refusal. She has no assets and they couldn't see sufficient reason for her to return so suspected that she wouldn't.
Another reason was that I hadn't included any details of the place we would live. I really thought my covering letter saying I would stay with parents until we had found a home suitable for us both would be sufficient. I cannot imagine it taking more than a day to find somewhere suitable.
Maybe we were naive, but all we wanted to do was to come together to the UK. We wanted to return to the Philippines for winter and then to go back to the UK and make a fresh start together.
I think that the only option that we have is if I return to the UK find a job and a house and hope that I can then get her over to the UK before the child is born, but I really think that would be doubtful considering it takes them 3 months to process the application. Thanks for the suggestions of doing it by way of EU treaty, but really don't want to go that route as we would have to try and get her into an EU country which would be just as difficult no doubt.
It really makes me sick this. I have been paying into the system for 20 years. All I want is for my wife to come back with me, and I don't want any of the governments precious money.
Andy i am pretty confident it will succeed. You can use Bulgaria as you have established roots or even Ireland, which has common travel area with the UK (Northern Island and Main Land).andy and ann wrote:Thanks a lot Obie for your reply. I had previously looked into going this route but was under the impression that we had to live in an EU country for at least two years together before getting to the UK?
You are saying that she would be able to gain access to any EU country with me providing we could prove onward travel/have sufficient funds?
This sounds too good to be true! I will begin my research immediately!
Thankyou so much!
Hi Andy i am forwarding the two link from which the regulations we have been discussing derives.andy and ann wrote:Thanks once again Obie, I do remember looking in this direction before, I haven't found the relevant information yet but from memory it is something like...
a citizen of any other country aside from the UK, so if I was German/French etc I could do this to move to the UK with my wife.
Its a real pain, all of this information was saved into my favourites until the ship porter dropped my suitcase with laptop into the sea doh!
No worries mate, anytime.andy and ann wrote:Thankyou so much once again Obie!
This is certainly proving that I have been misled about things countless times. I will be travelling to another city over the next couple of days, we are thinking of trying to start a guesthouse there to keep all of our options open.
I will be back soon no doubt to discuss* this further.
beg for more help!
Thanks once again