ILR (SET-M) almost in sight

So Asawa picked up her IELTS B1 after it being sat in the Post Office for the last few days. She passed (no worries on that front anyhow of course). All we need to do now is get the paperwork in order and apply for the penultimate phase of this monotonous process. Hopefully put this unfair British process behind us and live happily ever after.

Almost there Paul. After that, Shey can have her citizenship and visa free forever. I'm so jelly.

Thats good to know.

Everyone want this stuff over with as soon as we can- too much unknown in the future of visa processes involved

Goodluck!

Just like us Glenn the tunnel slowly shows more light as we get to the finale and it will for you two too. Yes we can hopefully have some nice family holidays in Spain, Portugal or wherever the sun shines visa-worry-free As much as I love Pinas it's not an easy trip especially as the kids get to those naggy phases

Indeed Dom. Abit to go but on the home-leg now.

Of course it would be nice if none of us have to do it Maley but we are all doing our best to toe the line.

Salamat

On the last two trips over, my daughter had to be hospitalised (a drip in her arm etc.) due to heat exhaustion, Paul. Such was the heat on her island with no breeze to keep visitors cool!

About one year to go for us now. It's always i the back of the mind, all this visa stuff, so I'll be glad to see the back of it too.

There's always the citizenship thing too, of course, if required and because of the places a Filipino can travel visa free it's worthwhile doing that too.

I suppose we're going to have to sort out this final English test sometime!

We had problems with our daughter Mike upon our last return. Came home with a virus and funnily enough so did Asawas friends child too (completely seperate holiday to us). He had same symtoms but ended up in hospital for observation.

The heat can take it out of the youngsters rather quickly.

I know we can apply for shengens and such like but I just want her visa done with so we can have a 'normal' holiday. We have been camping (not everyones cuppa) and Asawa and the kids seem to enjoy that. Supposedly going lakes next week for a few days. Went near Saundersfoot last month and it was fantastic.

Hopefully it will all be a distant memory in time Graham.

I will get asawa sorted with dual citizenship, makes total sense.

Citizenship is needed really. It's so difficult to travel anywhere. The ILR permit might be one that allows EU travel for now, but I guess that rug has been pulled out from us too soon, so a UK passport is probably a better option.

There are some places where travel is easy. We had a holiday in Thailand last year, but we want to go to Germany to visit her sister and it's just far too much effort. We do enough visa stuff as it is, without adding a Shengen into the mix.

Yep, good for the Asawas to get their British passports! The end of the paper trail.

What?
There, their, they're, we're, were, where

Eh?

Cheers Jim. Her arrival was 25th Sept 2012 and hopeful to submit the documents a few weeks before 25th Sept 2017. I think a 1 year wait still applies after gaining ILR before applying for citizenship but we've stuck it out for 5 years so another 1 won't matter.

EDIT: Additional 1 year requirement not necessary from what I can see.

It was a joke about the English test, Jim and Graham.
My mistake for not making this more obvious! Apologies.

Ah right. I thought you were questioning my use of the term "we're".

On the subject of the English test, my wife has a friend who is convinced she needs to go to college and get IELTS qualifications in written grammar. Several of her friends are doing this, and doing a lot of study.

She won't believe me when I say that all you need to do is go into a room and have a 15 minute conversation with someone. When I tried to tell her this I was quite firmly told: "No. You need it. You need to do grammar."

I'll let them get on with it.