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One girl's journey from loving a country to living there. With marriage, in-laws, and puddle jumping in between.
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Met Online: 11/98
Met in Person: 02/2000
Engaged: 6/28/03
Married: 06/10/06
Submitted VAF2 Application Online: 7/18/06
Sent Supporting Documents to NY: 7/19/06
Documents Received in NY: 7/20/06
Email Notification of Documents Received and Processing: 7/26/06
Received Visa Approval Email Notification 7/27/06
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From Anglophile to Expat
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Things Are Finally Happening!
* I got my birth certificates in the mail on Monday (got 2, one to take with me, send to immigration etc, and one to keep with my dad)
* Pete got a call today from the warehouse that he went to the orientation day on Friday for, he starts tomorrow at 6am - but ITS A JOB!
Have a little rant, before he got the call for the job he went to the Job Centre to sign on to Jobseekers. We already knew that he couldn't claim any extra benefit for me (because I'm not a resident or anything) but we thought he'd be allowed to claim for himself (its his right as a British citizen, correct?) NOPE! Apparently if I was in the country he could claim himself but not me (like we thought) but since I'm not he was told he couldn't even claim HIMSELF WTF?! Anyway, the call saved the day to another crisis averted!
Since he got this job he can now write his letter of support for my immigration application, get a letter from them stating when he started and his pay, and then send all his stuff to me to send in to the British Embassy
Posted by Juls
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Thursday, June 22, 2006
Starting the Visa Process
So since we're married now, we've started getting our stuff together for the UK spousal visa, which will allow me (hopefully) to move to the UK to be with my husband.
My biggest complaint about the process is that there is no set list of things we need, only 'guidelines' which vary from website to website. And then its taking awhile to get the documents we need, waiting for the marriage certificate to be processed so we can get more copies, I've had to send off for my birth certificate (because my family can find EVERYONES but mine!)
I'm aiming to move over by late July/early August. But I don't want to book a ticket until I have the visa. But I need all the paperwork to apply for the visa, which is taking more time than we hoped. Argh.
Posted by Juls
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