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What you and many others fail to realise is, Britain is not putting any barrier on you, £18k is a perfectly acceptable amount, isn't the average salary across the UK around £26k? Well this is well below the average salary. The government is in a difficult position, it has to stop immigration without breaching basic human rights. In terms of students, you try and narrow down so the best students come in and in terms of visitors, you narrow down so only immediate family come over and in terms of spouses, you narrow down so only those who can afford a decent and healthy style of living come through.Shah12 wrote:Its not a justification to say because the costs are high that it is best not to marry from abroad, what you should be arguing is that it should be a human right to chose who to marry and that deliberate financial barriers should not be set up to prevent that and the system needs to be challenged. Every marriage has a chance of breakdown regardless of where you marry. You're right to family life is taken away when you cant choose. With regards to what someone said about family trees coming over isn't that what happening in uk from other eu countries already
What you and many others fail to realise is, Britain is not putting any barrier on you, £18k is a perfectly acceptable amount, isn't the average salary across the UK around £26k? Well this is well below the average salary. The government is in a difficult position, it has to stop immigration without breaching basic human rights. In terms of students, you try and narrow down so the best students come in and in terms of visitors, you narrow down so only immediate family come over and in terms of spouses, you narrow down so only those who can afford a decent and healthy style of living come through.
The question to be asked is, and it's a serious one, if people are so eager to marry spouses from abroad, why don't they go and live abroad if they feel they're rights are being breached. The British government might be putting a barrier in terms of finance, but the Pakistani government isn't.
Another issue in terms of the south asian community in the UK is a massive one, due to the number of men who go "back home" to marry, there are often a shortage of bachelors in the UK for British born Asian women. In many marriage events you'll find the women outnumber the men by often 3 or even 4 to 1 and the average age of the women is more than the average age of men.
You guys are viewing things with tinted glasses on and not seeing the wider picture.
king2be98 wrote:What you and many others fail to realise is, Britain is not putting any barrier on you, £18k is a perfectly acceptable amount, isn't the average salary across the UK around £26k? Well this is well below the average salary. The government is in a difficult position, it has to stop immigration without breaching basic human rights. In terms of students, you try and narrow down so the best students come in and in terms of visitors, you narrow down so only immediate family come over and in terms of spouses, you narrow down so only those who can afford a decent and healthy style of living come through.Shah12 wrote:Its not a justification to say because the costs are high that it is best not to marry from abroad, what you should be arguing is that it should be a human right to chose who to marry and that deliberate financial barriers should not be set up to prevent that and the system needs to be challenged. Every marriage has a chance of breakdown regardless of where you marry. You're right to family life is taken away when you cant choose. With regards to what someone said about family trees coming over isn't that what happening in uk from other eu countries already
The question to be asked is, and it's a serious one, if people are so eager to marry spouses from abroad, why don't they go and live abroad if they feel they're rights are being breached. The British government might be putting a barrier in terms of finance, but the Pakistani government isn't.
Another issue in terms of the south asian community in the UK is a massive one, due to the number of men who go "back home" to marry, there are often a shortage of bachelors in the UK for British born Asian women. In many marriage events you'll find the women outnumber the men by often 3 or even 4 to 1 and the average age of the women is more than the average age of men.
You guys are viewing things with tinted glasses on and not seeing the wider picture.
king2be98 wrote:ak145m,
Once again you're not seeing the bigger picture are you. British born Asian women, in the majority do not like the idea of marrying a foreigner, most prefer to marry someone British. The men mostly down to their familys don't mind this. When you have a daughter, you'll understand the massive issue Asian women have when it comes to finding a spouse.
ak145m,
Just because you pay £800 for a VISA application, doesn't mean you should get it. You need to meet the criteria of applicants. The criteria of 18k is a really fair one considering that the average salary for men across the uk is £30k and the average for women is £24k. I don't know why everyone is moaning about them breaching human rights, 18k is well below the average uk salary, so any distortion due to the high earning CEOs is negated.
Its very sad and uncomforting to see march applicant still awaiting the reply....looking at the ukba processing times i think in the next two months their service will be dead slow........June and july applicants i think it will take around 8-10 months now believe me or not i can sense it for 100% applications......I guess all we can do it to put pressure through MP's.....sabootio_786 wrote:Salaam all, the UKBA website has been updated with the statistics of visa processing times of applications made in August. For applications made in Lahore and Islamabad, only 85-86% of the cases were decided within 120 days. I'm becoming patient with the wait now Alhamdulillah (all praise to Allah). But I did email my MP to see if he can find out the progress of my husbands application. Duas going out to everyone, will let yous know once I hear something Insha'Allah (God willing).
my wife also applied on the 14th of June 2012 at islamabad.solospy wrote:know... what poor planning ayy!!!
What is your timeline solospy??
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Applied at Islamabad Gerrys: 25/06/2012
Under process at BHC: 9/7/2012
80+ days... Still waiting… INSHA'ALLAH it will be granted soon !!!
My time line is:
Applied at Islamabad :14/06/2012
Under process at BHC : 27/06/2012
70 Working Days
The other fact which drives me mad is that my wife and son applied together on 14/06/12. We are married for over 3 years, my wife spent 2 and half years in the UK with a spouse visa when i was on work permit and our son was born in the UK in 2011. They had to go back for an emergency before their visa expired and i was stupid enough to think that they can apply from pakistan