Leaving Las Vegas

....hopefully some time in the future!


Hello, you can call me Bochelly! Originally from southern California, but have been living in Las Vegas for about six years now. I'm extremely pleased that I stumbled on this place, and I know you  guys will make for an nice support system of knowledge. I'm a twenty something Mexican American lady who has been in a LDR relationship with another twenty something lady. We've each visited each other for long periods of time, traveled around with one another, and after my latest visit to her parent's home I've just had this sinking feeling that I no longer want to be apart and that I crave being able to do mundane things with her again. Doing laundry, cooking, taking care of the chickens, I loved it all. It's been long enough for us to start talking about it, and we have started an open dialogue about our (currently vague) plans.

We at least know for a fact that England would be the better country for us. My family here, although large, is not a very good support system being spread out and dirt poor, and my relationship with a particular parent of mine is extraordinarily strained. She is very close with her family, and I wouldn't dare try to take her far away from them. I'm hoping to go over on a student visa for a part time nursing program, with the goal to get into private nursing. While my lady is almost finished with her degree, due to family and anxiety problems, I had to give up schooling for a while to work to support them. I'm hoping to get into a basic 9 month medical assistant course, work for a year or so to save money , then  attempt the scary (at least to me :c) world of starting paperwork to attend Uni somewhere in Essex, while staying with her and her parents until we both are confident we can get a place of our own. It's all a bit frightening to me, as I'm a very present minded person and thinking of the future and filling out paperwork used to give me extreme anxiety attacks. My partner has been extremely helpful, and I'm doing a whole lot better in terms of my irrational fears. I mean, I'll have to get used to filling out things as an adult, especially one who plans to move so far away XD.

Anyways, thank you for letting me babble on about this! I'm a total noob so please bear with me! I look forward to reading everything I possibly can here :'D.

Welcome to UKY! There's many great people on this forum and you'll find many helpful answers around here! 

Welcome to the forum - good luck with your plans to move to the UK... there is lots of useful information here to help you .

I'm hoping to go over on a student visa for a part time nursing program, with the goal to get into private nursing like her mother.  I'm hoping to get into a basic 9 month medical assistant course, work for a year or so to save money , then  attempt the scary (at least to me :c) world of starting paperwork to attend Uni somewhere in Essex, while staying with her and her parents until we both are confident we can get a place of our own

Something to consider here is that you cannot study part-time in the UK on a student visa... it's full-time or nothing, I'm afraid.

Also, in order to work for a year after your course, you would need to secure work visa sponsorship from a UK company... which can be almost impossible to get unless you are very highly skilled (i.e. educated to masters or PhD level and/or have several years of experience in a specialised field), because the UK company would have to prove they can't find anyone else in the UK or the EU capable of doing the job before they will be allowed to hire you (and that's out of 27 countries and 500 million people!).

Thank you guys :3!

ksand24: Oh, I see, my bad! I'm very unfamiliar with everything, so thank you! I'll defiantly be studying all this now that I've found this site XD.

ksand24: Oh, I see, my bad! I'm very unfamiliar with everything, so thank you! I'll defiantly be studying all this now that I've found this site XD.

Yes, there's plenty of information here and lots of people willing to help if you have questions .

It's worth having a look at the official UKBA website to find out more about what visas you might qualify for: http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/visas-immigration/

It sounds like a better option for you (if you're ready to take the step) might be a proposed civil partner or civil partner visa instead of a student or work visa.

The proposed civil partnership visa is a 6-month visa that would allow you to move to the UK and marry/register a civil partnership with your partner (it's essentially a fiancee visa so you can marry in the UK). This visa would not allow you to work or study at first though... you would have to wait until after you were married/had registered your civil partnership and had applied for and received the next visa (a 2-year FLR(M) visa) in order to start work or study - but you wouldn't need to worry about getting a student visa or a work visa.

The civil partner visa is valid for 27 months and does allow you to work and/or study in the UK immediately, but you would already have to be married/civil partners to apply for it (and that may not be practical or possible for you to do before coming to the UK).