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UK Immigration Policy - bonkers

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:24 pm
by DaddyHoggy

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:45 pm
by Disembodied
I bet he'd have less trouble if his name was "Nigel Smith", say. Honestly, this bloody country gets worse on an almost daily basis. Where did I put that tumbril? :evil:

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:03 pm
by DaddyHoggy
Two of my best friends in the whole world have applied for NZ citizenship - they've had enough. Two others left for Australia last year.

I think if it wasn't for the kids being settled at school NZ would be on my list of places to head for - I know that NZ is effectively a one way trip and that the grass is always greener, but...

:(

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:53 am
by Chrisfs
That sucks.
I know a friend who is going to England on a tourist visa and if she wanted to stay past that, she only needed to stay a night in France and then come back and get could get a whole new tourist visa. I don't know if that's the case, but it seems that UK rules are sometimes as arbitrary as US rules

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 8:37 am
by DaddyHoggy
Chrisfs wrote:
That sucks.
I know a friend who is going to England on a tourist visa and if she wanted to stay past that, she only needed to stay a night in France and then come back and get could get a whole new tourist visa. I don't know if that's the case, but it seems that UK rules are sometimes as arbitrary as US rules
Worse than US - the US admits it's rules are a pain-in-the-butt, the UK, we still pretend they're not.