EXPEN$IVE

HEY YALL
Do you ever wonder WHY it is SO EXPENISVE to get a Fiance and Spousal visa? is it cos they want u to REALLY be for real or what? its just rediculous.  DOnt u hate how it cost us SO MUCH MONEY to be with our loved one? its out of control I say. OUT OF CONTROL!
anyone else on this banwagon with me?
and lets NOT count the times we have to get a FLIGHT to there and them coming to visit us too.a nd hotels, rental cars! GOOD LORD!
LOVE DONT COST A THING! YEAH RIGHT!

 Shala

Just be grateful that your fiance isn't Australian!  It costs over twice as much for a fiance/spouse visa to Australia than it does to the UK... 

-Sara

(always looking on the bright side of things!).

Just be grateful that your fiance isn't Australian!  It costs over twice as much for a fiance/spouse visa to Australia than it does to the UK... 

-Sara

(always looking on the bright side of things!).

You're spot on--my stepkids live in NZ & it's not only expensive but time consuming to arrange visits. Can't just pop over for a long weekend
Bethany

Er, if you couldn't afford to pay the visa fees, you probably couldn't afford to live in the UK without public assistance, (particularly if you're coming on a fiance visa and can't work until after you're married), meaning that you wouldn't be eligible for a visa in the first place.

   dude i know,i just had to get that out...

its just crazy expensive. I can afford it but its like DAAAAAAAAAAAANG can we get a break. The airline costs alone... Plus you know, phone bills ect.... :-d i am just being angry because it seems so crazy sometimes.

Imagine if you had to pay for you and two children as well...

I agree, the flights are expensive, but why do you need to stay in a hotel? If you're visiting a loved one, why don't you stay at their home? Staying in a hotel makes it a vacation, not a visit.  As for a rental car, many places in the US and the UK (especially the UK) are accessible by public transportation.

Or do you mean the hotel and the rental car are for when you go to the consulate to apply for the visa?  Doing it in person instead of by post is your choice.

you're singing my song! 

If your "loved one" still lives at home, maybe a hotel or B&B might be a nice change of pace rather than being underfoot or sharing walls with potential in-laws (and or the loved one's children)...which would account for various hotel and B&B charges in my situation.

As for *public transport* - sure, I could take a Greyhound bus from Miami International (after taking a cab from the airport to the depot) to Fort Myers - but it leaves 5 hours after the flight lands and drops me off at my general destination at about 2 in the morning.  From which I then have to take another cab to get to my specific destination.

Oh, or I could pay almost twice as much and fly directly into Fort Myers.

Or I could rent a car and drive from Miami Int'l to Fort Myers.

Which accounts for the numerous rental car expenses in my situation.

So - yep - it can cost a lot to sustain a trans-atlantic relationship.

Yep and I'm still moaning on about my £1000 mobile phone bill.

Oh - don't even get me started on the phone bills!

I'll never forget the $400 bill that almost gave my mother a heart attack - of course, this was back in 1985/6...     

And the sending of packages for those holidays you can't spend together.

£1000!!!!  WHAT!!!!  Why would you call on that!!!   Poor thing.  Mind you Richard and I both bought phone cards, and then I got a super deal with AT&T that it cost $2.50 a month plus $.07 a minute to England!  What are you guys using!!!!

I didn't have any choice at that time, I had to go to Africa for a month - work - 5 countries in 4 weeks, it was mobile with international roaming or nothing. And it didn't work in 2 of the countries so I had hotel phone bills as well.

I didn't have any choice at that time, I had to go to Africa for a month - work - 5 countries in 4 weeks, it was mobile with international roaming or nothing. And it didn't work in 2 of the countries so I had hotel phone bills as well.

Wow!  Well good thing you married him then

I agree that it is expensive, but these are all choices that we make.  The length and the number of phone calls we make, the number of visits,  whether we choose to stay in a home with other family members or stay in a hotel, whether to take a taxi from the airport or use the bus or the tube or travel at odd hours.  You determine your priorities; if you want to spend extra money on relationship-related things, then you spend less on other things in your life.   It was your decision to be in an international relationship, your decision to take on the expenses involved.