A Day in the Life

Just a diary really:


18th February 2010
 
Off to Solihull for an appointment at the UK Border Agency.  My wife and daughter are Thai nationals and been in the U.K for two years on a spouse visa.  This visa has now expired and they are applying for indefinite leave to remain.  That means no more visas will be required to stay in the U.K. The princely sum of £1070 will be handed over with a documented history of my wife, my daughter, and I and our relationship together since we married.

It's a tense time visa applications, there is always that element of doubt that looms.  Have I done everything correctly, is all the paperwork in the correct order, will the interviewing officer be 'Human' (some are more than jobs worth’s and can make peoples lives a misery!).  There are numerous hurdles to jump and you are never quite sure if they will get higher in mid flight.  We will see, by 3.00p.m the penultimate stage in a multi stage drama to be together with ease will be over.

22nd February 2010

Mission accomplished, all visa's stamped, another milestone reached.  Only drama was being 20 minutes late for picking up the car from the car park and getting landed with  £25:00 parking ticket.  Being that was the only hiccup during the day I could live with it.

23rd February 2010

Still no news on the numerical and critical reasoning test I sat last week.  It was by far the hardest thing I have had to do.  35 questions in 35 minutes is a mean task if the answers spring to mind but this was unreal, well sadly not but hey.  I will wait and see if the score was enough to warrant me achieving the interview stages.  Any one trawling through this blog would entertain themselves with a sample of this mind frying test located HERE