Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

I do wonder in these situations, why someone doesn't just get a similar looking relative to fedex their passport out to the stranded person.

One with the right visa? LOL! Very devious. Mind you, it's high risk, as UKBA'll skin you alive if they find out.

PasturesNew

So long as you don't end up like this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri

silvercar

LydiaJ wrote: »

AIUI, silvercar, it's a visa thing, not a passport thing. Suppose you have a visa to come here to do X. Then you decide to change your circumstances so that you should now be here under a visa for doing Y. They don't like you to stay here and just start doing Y. They like you to leave and then apply (from your country of origin) for a visa to come here to do Y. When they've given you the new visa, you can come back in. If you are here for X, change your circumstances to Y (even if still also doing X), and then leave, they may or may not let you back in. Sometimes they make you go back to your country of origin to apply for your Y visa before you can re-enter the UK.

But I'm remembering a conversation from many years ago, so don't take my word for it.

Makes sense. I had a hairdresser once who met a waiter while holidaying in the Dominican Republic. He came here on a tourist visa to be with her and they got married. He then had to go back home to apply to come here as her spouse. So she spent the first 2 months of married life single.

lostinrates

a friend of mine came back from....some where, can't remember where the day AFTER her passport ran out. She got a gentle ticking off.

treliac

LydiaJ wrote: »

My update is that I have finally given the keys back to my rented house. :j It's been a bit of a nightmare, really.

We finished on Sunday evening.....

Not too much of a nightmare I hope Lydia. So glad to know that you are finally there and hoping everything is proceeding as you would want.

Good luck! :cool:

treliac

misskool wrote: »

I would much rather they let me back in really. But yes, they can make me pay my own way back to my country of origin. and back again.

Not sure what's happened here but I hope you get it sorted out quickly. Take care.

PasturesNew

Looking at a week-long course in 4 months' time. Price is right and they offer residential, which makes it unaffordable.... so I have some affordable alternatives lined up, but I thought I'd ask if anybody's in the HP15 region and wants to offer B&B for 6 nights

It's best I ask now, than find out one of you lives just a mile from where I'm going and could have put me up.

crashpadder's good for this type of thing, cheap as chips it is there.

treliac

So that's High Wycombe then? I'm afraid I'm not too near there but there are maybe one or two who aren't so far away, although one mile is probably rather hopeful!

Lucky you've got a plan B anyway though.

lemonjelly

Pobby, in case you browse through, I've sent you a pm, & posted on your thread too.:)

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

a friend of mine came back from....some where, can't remember where the day AFTER her passport ran out. She got a gentle ticking off.

I'm just trying to work out what else they could do?