Spain Visa - Question About The £500 Savings

mystic_bertie

i said in one of my previous posts, her friend paid for the flights and they have an apartment so she just needs a little spending money.

Voyager2002

It's a long shot, but she might check the requirements for visiting other Schengen countries (for example Austria). A visa for any of these would be valid for Spain.

agrinnall

mystic_bertie wrote: »

i said in one of my previous posts, her friend paid for the flights and they have an apartment so she just needs a little spending money.

You might think you said this, but if you look back at your posts you'll find that in fact you didn't.

mystic_bertie

agrinnall, i apologise, i did say her accommodation was free but i never mentioned the flights.

ill have a look at the requirements for other Schengen countries cheers

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If you are planning to travel to more than one Schengen country its best if you apply in the Embassy/ Consulate of the country you will be staying at the most, regarding the residing days. Once you are issued a multiple entry visa you are able to travel to all of the Schengen Zone countries for the time permitted on the visa.

Voyager2002

Bertie: the more I think about this situation, the stranger it seems. And of course it is not all that different from a well-known scam (although a scammer would not bother for just five hundred).

For a start, a nanny in the UK earns a decent professional salary (more than I have ever earned) so this ought not to be an issue. Of course many families make informal arrangements, but a filipino would not be given a visa to enter the UK in this situation. (The only exception is when a family from another country wishes to bring their servants with them to spend time in the UK, in which case visitor visas are issued to the whole group.) Incidentally, a Philippine national who is in the UK on a visitor visa would have to return to the Philippines to apply for a visa to visit Spain.

Anyway, most or all EU countries allow people to apply for a visa when someone else is paying for the trip. Since that is the situation, she could apply by saying so and giving details: the financial questions are then about the person paying rather than about her, although the visa officer would need to see a good reason why she would leave Spain at the end of her holiday. If she has documents to show that she is living and working legally in the UK then that should not be an issue.

mystic_bertie

Everything is above board, she was a nanny for a scottish family who were living and working in the Phillipines, they moved back to Aberdeen and she was given the chance to move to the uk with them, they paid for her visa for 2 years, then that job ended and she is now with a family in East Kilbride, they again pay for her visa as part of the deal, her visa only allows her to work as a nanny or similar in someones home, she cant get a regular job at the moment. I have no idea the going rate for a nanny but she gets about £550 a month and sends £250 home. She has her own room and food and everything paid for. She is not after money in any way, im not that flush anyway (no job just now):rotfl:. Her main concern is earning money to send home.

She is gonna save what she can, if i can top it up i will, i know her very well, been together a few months and im not a gullible person.

martindow

mystic_bertie wrote: »

Everything is above board, she was a nanny for a scottish family who were living and working in the Phillipines, they moved back to Aberdeen and she was given the chance to move to the uk with them, they paid for her visa for 2 years, then that job ended and she is now with a family in East Kilbride, they again pay for her visa as part of the deal, her visa only allows her to work as a nanny or similar in someones home, she cant get a regular job at the moment. I have no idea the going rate for a nanny but she gets about £550 a month and sends £250 home. She has her own room and food and everything paid for. She is not after money in any way, im not that flush anyway (no job just now):rotfl:. Her main concern is earning money to send home.

She is gonna save what she can, if i can top it up i will, i know her very well, been together a few months and im not a gullible person.

Surely she should be paid the minimum wage currently £6.50/hour?

https://www.gov.uk/au-pairs-employment-law/nannies

Does she only work 85 hours a month?

InsideInsurance

agrinnall wrote: »

She may well be missing the sun living in Scotland but I would question the sense of spending money that she doesn't really have on a holiday in Spain and going without for 3 months before that. Can she not find a week's cheap holiday in the UK instead?

Ignoring the fact she isnt paying for flights or accommodation.... A weeks holiday in Spain is very possibly cheaper than a weeks holiday in the UK

Even if it wasnt, some like travel and are willing to make cuts in daily life in exchange for the ability to see other foreign lands

littlereddevil

martindow wrote: »

Surely she should be paid the minimum wage currently £6.50/hour?

https://www.gov.uk/au-pairs-employment-law/nannies

Does she only work 85 hours a month?

Maybe that's what she has left after her board etc is taken off?

mystic_bertie

I know she has a contract, i have no idea how her wage breaks down taking into consideration her accommodation and everything. She is on duty from 8am till after dinner and the kids are fed which can be about 6pm. I dont know this but i guess if its all in the contract her hours and pay will be legal. I think the money is quite poor but i dont how it stacks up with having no living costs.