What is it like to live and work in the UK as a nurse?

Your right British born and bred for the last 50 plus years so hey ho I think I'm British, not sure my posts are rants I've answered in a way I have seen fit and that is what I will continue you to do.

No youve not upset me at all well you hadn't till I read your previous salary of £45k to £50k a month which on the lower figure would give you a salary of £54000 a year was that before tax?

Let me explain this clearly at no point have I mentioned my wife is a nurse she isnt and never has been.

on the 15 Feb you wrote

My fiance finally got her tourist visa (2nd attempt) and is coming to the UK in May, but hopefully she will ILETS7 and get a job by then. Obviously I will update you in those circumstance how she will find the UK experience.
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yesterday I wrote at6.04
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Is that a job in the UK on a tourist visa? Because if it is its a no no!
Mattecube, Yesterday at 6:04 PMEditDeleteRep

Then you wrote

"Let me explain to you very clearly - you mentioned that your wife is a nurse, and when she passes her IELTS she can get a work permit through one of the many hospitals - it is only then that you will come into the UK as a dependent and have the right to work.
YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO WORK IN THE UK AS A TOURIST"

The bold of your type as youve put it is exactly what i put 33 minutes earlier, so I am not sure why you have to explain it to me very clearly.

As has been mentioned I think yo need to read the forum threads and responses in greater detail to establish factual information. Have a great day and I hope youve stashed away some of the £540000 over the years that youve earned. Nurses at food banks pah! No I can see why!

British and Proud

Hi Mattecube,

Not sure on that they just gave the band 5 salary range. Never mentioned what is the starting salary.

Thanks that you have point that out, I will ask her to check what is her salary.

By the way how much is the tax rate there?
And is there also a tax relief for foreigner?

Here is a link for your information

https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates/current-rates-and-allowances

this might help also
https://www.nursingtimes.net/news/agenda-for-change-pay-scales

If they would be subject to Immigration Controls - as those from outside the EU who are granted work visas generally are - then they would not be entitled to claim Child Benefit. In any event, they would need to prove entitlement to live in the UK, that they have lived in the UK for at least 3 months prior to making a claim, that the UK is their main home and that the child is living with its parents in the UK. All for the princely sum of £20.70 a week.

and then there is child care costs as has been suggested if both work its easier unless they do opposite shifts then when will they sleep and see each other,some response eh ill thought through!

Fancy a fag

Asawas best friends boyfriend came to the UK as a nurse last year. He started on £26k albeit a hospital in London. Her best friends arrival is also imminent. Within the year the boyfriend has been doing bank just months after arrival, I'm guessing he has easily cleared £30k for the year. He has serious plans, wants to eventually escape London with the living costs being so expensive, get a morgage and have a good settled life here. He has a good work ethic and I see him gaining promotion within the ranks as he does more more training and gains experience.

child resident in the UK? That seems to contradict the things Ive heard. I understand for example, that poles get child benefit for kids at home (Poland) too. Maybe I was mis-informed.

and good luck to him!

If the child's parents are both non-EU then yes, the child must be resident here.

The Poles are seriously pissing me off - and I'm half-Polish! Poland receives by far the greatest amount of money from the EU each year and it transpires that the Polish Government are the ones demanding that Britain pays €100 Billion Exit Fee and continues to pay its normal full subscription until 2022 (they'll be lucky). Poland's Child Benefit rate is derisory - £4.23 per week for those under 5 and £5.75 for those between 5 and 18 - and encourages all its expat workers in Britain, Germany and Sweden to claim CB in those countries which, under EU Law, they can do even if the children are not living with them; those three countries pay the highest rates (UK: £20.70 per week, Germany: £30.40 to £40.70 per week, Sweden: £22.85 per week).

Thanks for the info. I must have been mis-informed.

I was thinking it was more an EU directive Jim but anyhow it transpires that I'm not correct

Child Benefit is not means-tested and the same amounts are paid to the richest in the land as to the poorest. However, if you earn £50,000 or more a year, then you will pay a special tax on your Child Benefit.

Jim: I respectfully suggest you appeal or submit a new claim.

Until I spoke with a very helpful young lady at the International Pensions Centre, I didn't think I was entitled to claim Child Benefit at all as (a) we don't live in the UK and (b) neither of my children had British Passports at that point in time. She urged me to submit claims for Child Benefit and as my sole source of income is my pension, for Child Tax Credits too. This conversation took place on my 66th birthday last July. I followed her advice and I had to send two fairly thick packets to HMRC, one for Child Benefit and the other for Tax Credits (receipt the later is dependent on the former, by the way).

Between August, when I applied, and April. In both cases, I received several fairly apologetic letters from HMRC (Child Benefit Dept) firstly to acknowledge receipt of the application, then to ask for the original NSO Birth Certificates and finally to advise me that everything was fine, they were just waiting on information from the Maltese government and if I would kindly sign and return this 'ere form, they will contact the Maltese by email(!). Long story short, I am now receiving four-weekly BACS credits for Child Benefit and on Friday I found-out that my Tax Credits application has also now been approved.

Just to reiterate, at the time I applied:

• Neither I nor my children were living in the UK.
• Neither of my children had British Passports (they both now do).
• One of my children was living in the Philippines with his Lola.
• I and both my children have the right of abode in the UK

As I understand it, you and your children appear to be in a very similar position as were me and mine last July with the slight difference that one of your children already holds a British Passport. I live in the EU whilst you're in the UK. Our situations are not dissimilar.

It was gross - the experience is dated and refers to 2011 - I had a major argument with them - I am now self-employed and earn much less

I have no time now bit I have a book Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook 2016/2017 and if you contact me towards the end of this week I can give you the advice that you need.