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un married partner visa

Discussion in 'UK Visa and Immigration Help' started by tiger31, May 11, 2012.

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  1. tiger31
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    tiger31 New Member

    bang on brother thats the visa alright ,but it looks like i,ll have to stay in the uk longer than i intended before going back to the philippines .so this will be my target visa cheers
    tiger31, May 13, 2012
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  2. Howerd
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    Howerd Well-Known Member Trusted Member Lifetime Member

    This is an interesting route for family migration but only if the partners have been living together for two years or more at the time of the application - either in the UK and/or overseas. It is not suitable where one partner is settled in the UK and the other is living overseas, so I don't think your partner would qualify, OSS, as you are clearly settled and working in the UK and your partner is clearly settled overseas.

    It seems an option to consider for those who don't want to marry, or want to get married in the UK but prefer to avoid the Fiancée Visa route as that would preclude the immigrant partner from working until a Spouse Visa was obtained. It appears that you can still get married in the UK on an Unmarried Visa, if you so wish.

    If the partners have lived together for four or more years, the applicant may qualify for Indefinite Leave to Enter (ILE), thus avoiding the current two year UK residency requirements. If you go the traditional Fiancée Visa route I believe you still have to fulfill the two years residency requirement in the UK before obtaining ILR, even if you have lived together for four or more years. As the UK government is currently proposing a five years residency requirements for family migrants before granting ILR, the Unmarried Visa route may become the Visa of choice (over Fiancée Visa) for those family migrants who qualify.


    Unmarried Visa for Partners who have lived together 2+ years
    1. Provided all the requirements are met, Leave to Enter is granted for 27 months.
    2. The applicant has to fulfill English Language and Life in the UK test requirements before applying for the Visa
    3. Minimum Income requirements still have to be met, along with No Recourse to Public Funds.
    4. After two years in the UK you can apply for ILR

    Unmarried Visa for Partners who have lived together 4+ years
    1. Provided all the requirements are met, Indefinite Leave to Enter (ILE) is granted but you still have to fulfill the income requirements, with no recourse to public funds! I am not sure when (or if) a ban on No Recourse to Public fund is lifted!
    2. If the English Language and Life in the UK requirements cannot be met, then Leave to Enter for 27 months is granted instead.
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    Howerd, May 13, 2012
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    Yes, but very cold in Winter.
    -15deg many mornings, makes your ears hurt :erm:
    aposhark, May 13, 2012
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    Thanks Dom, but as Howerd pointed out it probably applies only to people who are physically living together in the Philippines :(
    oss, May 13, 2012
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    Slightly off-topic, apologies, but before I forget.....
    Jim,
    When I was working in Norway, many Norwegian programmers worked from home and sent their work over the ether.
    One bloke was in Tromso, N. Norway which is quite a trip from Oslo.
    Is it possible you could do this from the Phils? Or even in the Phils and working with other software companies within the Phils?
    aposhark, May 13, 2012
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    Yeah I have considered this, it's not beyond the bounds of possibility, in fact it would be my ideal solution, much better quality of life than I have here and better for the kids and me for them to have their father with them all the time.

    I have thought about it but I would prefer to have an established source of income in addition to this, but it could be done, I would probably have to start that kind of online business here then once I had some regular trade make the move to the Phils.

    The other option is to build a portfolio of products that sell well enough support us, I am working on that I have about 5 projects under development, one small product very near completion and a larger one that will require about a further 6 months of part time development, the rest are infrastructure but worthy products in their own right.

    The option of giving some away based on the possibility of capturing Google advert revenue is another possibility.

    In this kind of scenario I would consider trying to do some photographic work over there as well, but only if I had checked out the legality of me working in that line of business.

    My IT contacts over there have gotten large but the main one morphed from being an outsourcing traditional software development company to a web agency, I know two British lads that work for them but that kind of web site work is not quite my cup of tea.

    Biggest problem with online work in the Phils is that the infrastructure is really lousy and it's not easy to even provide remote support services as a result of the very very poor internet infrastructure, the best connection you can get is in Makati and is only a few meg and costs a fortune.
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    oss, May 13, 2012
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