No-one ever said it was going to be easy
Another post, another 'so, it's been a while since I last posted' beginning.
Ah well, 'tis the way of things.
I'm posting this out of laziness, sort of. I'm tired of telling people this story.
So Allie was applying for a Visa to stay on in the UK after study.
The other week (on the 24th of Feb) that was turned down.
This was because an account was twenty four pounds sixty-nine pence below the eight hundred pound threshold you have to maintain in your account whilst applying.
She had ten days to appeal, but the immigration lawyer she was reccommended didn't have any appointments in that time, and plus there really isn't much disputing of the facts.
Past that there is a twenty-eight day timescale to leave the country, after which you are 'overstaying' and illegal. This of course would jeapordise any later applications to return.
She's going back on the twenty-third of March.
In the mean time, she isn't allowed to work, so we're paying for this flat with my pay only till I move. I'll have to pay for a week of April's rent, too.
Our parents have been really generous and helped us out as best we can, which means we can actually afford to eat and get her out of the UK.
The weekend of the 19th-21st, we were going to be coming to the Jackals. Allie was going to give Larping a go, and get giant silver boots which made her happy.
Instead, we'll be moving my stuff back into the place I was living before, and tidying up our old flat before she jets off out of the country to get a temporary job in the US and figure out the quickest legal way for her to return to Britain.
This fucking sucks.
Ah well, 'tis the way of things.
I'm posting this out of laziness, sort of. I'm tired of telling people this story.
So Allie was applying for a Visa to stay on in the UK after study.
The other week (on the 24th of Feb) that was turned down.
This was because an account was twenty four pounds sixty-nine pence below the eight hundred pound threshold you have to maintain in your account whilst applying.
She had ten days to appeal, but the immigration lawyer she was reccommended didn't have any appointments in that time, and plus there really isn't much disputing of the facts.
Past that there is a twenty-eight day timescale to leave the country, after which you are 'overstaying' and illegal. This of course would jeapordise any later applications to return.
She's going back on the twenty-third of March.
In the mean time, she isn't allowed to work, so we're paying for this flat with my pay only till I move. I'll have to pay for a week of April's rent, too.
Our parents have been really generous and helped us out as best we can, which means we can actually afford to eat and get her out of the UK.
The weekend of the 19th-21st, we were going to be coming to the Jackals. Allie was going to give Larping a go, and get giant silver boots which made her happy.
Instead, we'll be moving my stuff back into the place I was living before, and tidying up our old flat before she jets off out of the country to get a temporary job in the US and figure out the quickest legal way for her to return to Britain.
This fucking sucks.