Yes, but if you want to hide your money then cash is great for that. No need to pay tax on it if the taxman doesnt know about it.
Interesting point John, but that tends to apply to the criminal element, and proceeds of crime. Taxation is a complex area anyway. From my viewpoint, spending much of my time traveling, cash in the obvious choice. Here in Phnom Penh I change GBP into USD at a money changer by the central market and pay well under 1% off the interbank rate. If I was to pay a bill here using a UK credit card there would be 2.95% + 2.5% + (charge to the retailer) for example. Even using a UK card to withdraw cash from an ATM costs over 5% once all the charges are taken into consideration. Over a year these charges add up.
I got a moto back from the last bar tonight, $1. No helmet and I have seen so many dead people littering the roads here recently.
I'll give a million quid to anyone who can tell me the title of this thread after reading the last 10 posts
I'm 100% certain that Dave's exploits in Cambodia will be more interesting than registering at the quacks I know if I was there they would be , in my day
It doesn't take long to get plenty of id here. We got the electeic bill and council tax bill in both names. Water bill in her name. Joint bank account, her current account, driving license and she's just opened a savings account too. I reckon that's more than enough. GP was easy. We just went in, they asked if she was my partner, i said yes and they registered. We may have had to show passport. I can't remember.
Just checked the electricity bill online, I can change it to her name no problem. Suppose I better register at a doctors in the area I've just moved to.
To give a little more information to the thread, we did find a doctors surgery close to where we live, we had to offer our passports and proof of address. In addition to this we had to fill in a standard medical history questionaire. One thing I did find out, is that all us Brits all have a NHS number (not to be mixed up with the National Insurance) which I'd never heard of before. I had to ring up my old doctors surgery to obtain this. I'm pretty sure that the process of registering our Filipino loved ones at the doctors once they are in tht homeland varies from area to area, and in our case it took one month before we heard we had been accepted. Note that any correspondence from the doctors provides good proof of address for opening bank accounts to applying for further visas and the like.
Yes. Stick them in the box with the rest of the evidence. We moved twice while awaiting to apply for ILR. So we had 2 sets of 3 of each for each doctors surgery.
Yes John You're right, while I have been away I got the loved one to apply for Tesco, Coop and I think M&S points cards so she would have more letters to use as evidence of abode.
Yes, apparently when applying for FLR she will need 4 x official letters with her address on, for example, doctors, bank, council tax and television licence or you can have 8 x letters with proof of address that are not from official government offices. As Graham said, it doesn't take long to amass a few letters.
Yes. We kept everything. Just bunged it in a box. By the time we got around to applying we had to decide on what to leave out, we had amassed so much.
I can well believe it, I'm just waiting for the letter stating the notice to marry is sorted and that will make the four up I need from official government sources. Will bang a few more in of course for good measure, goes without saying really, we are from BF after all, with the motto "what ever the UKBA requires is not enough"
Official is the keyword. A letter from from say an online store where you bought some item or other won't be applicable
I know this isnt always going to be possible for some and it wasnt listed as a requirement but we added the babies birth certificate and GP card in too.
