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Instabul Consolate Exchange Rate
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16 Jan 2008 Wed 12:27 pm |
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So, any ideas when the British Consulate in Instabul will change their exchange rate from the present 2.65 TYL to something more like the present one of 2.20
My fiancee is just about to put in for her visa which in England is £500 and in Turkey is 1325 Lira (500*2.65 = 1325), but because you have to pay 1325 in local currency, with the exchange rate so low, this makes it nearly £600!!!
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16 Jan 2008 Wed 12:52 pm |
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That's quite an unfair tax.
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16 Jan 2008 Wed 01:15 pm |
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Quoting English_boy: So, any ideas when the British Consulate in Instabul will change their exchange rate from the present 2.65 TYL to something more like the present one of 2.20
My fiancee is just about to put in for her visa which in England is £500 and in Turkey is 1325 Lira (500*2.65 = 1325), but because you have to pay 1325 in local currency, with the exchange rate so low, this makes it nearly £600!!! |
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16 Jan 2008 Wed 01:30 pm |
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Quoting shama-uk: Quoting English_boy: So, any ideas when the British Consulate in Instabul will change their exchange rate from the present 2.65 TYL to something more like the present one of 2.20
My fiancee is just about to put in for her visa which in England is £500 and in Turkey is 1325 Lira (500*2.65 = 1325), but because you have to pay 1325 in local currency, with the exchange rate so low, this makes it nearly £600!!! |
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Last week I took my mobile bill (highlighted the calling card numbers and the tesxts to her phone), the calling card receipts, photos of us in the UK and Turkey earlier in the year. I'm also hoping that the fact she was an au pair in the UK for 22 months and that I have already been over and have tickets to go again in 6 weeks will make it a simpler process. Which does remind me, I should send her copies of my flight tickets when I send her ID back to her (we forgot to take it out of my wallet after Saturday night :-S)
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16 Jan 2008 Wed 01:43 pm |
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Quoting English_boy: Quoting shama-uk: Quoting English_boy: So, any ideas when the British Consulate in Instabul will change their exchange rate from the present 2.65 TYL to something more like the present one of 2.20
My fiancee is just about to put in for her visa which in England is £500 and in Turkey is 1325 Lira (500*2.65 = 1325), but because you have to pay 1325 in local currency, with the exchange rate so low, this makes it nearly £600!!! |
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Last week I took my mobile bill (highlighted the calling card numbers and the tesxts to her phone), the calling card receipts, photos of us in the UK and Turkey earlier in the year. I'm also hoping that the fact she was an au pair in the UK for 22 months and that I have already been over and have tickets to go again in 6 weeks will make it a simpler process. Which does remind me, I should send her copies of my flight tickets when I send her ID back to her (we forgot to take it out of my wallet after Saturday night :-S) |
Prepare well but don't worry. She will get the visa.
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16 Jan 2008 Wed 02:06 pm |
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Good luck with your visa application.I will be going through the same thing with my fiance in due course and i can really relate to you.Hope everything goes your way!
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16 Jan 2008 Wed 02:32 pm |
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Quoting SERA_2005: Good luck with your visa application.I will be going through the same thing with my fiance in due course and i can really relate to you.Hope everything goes your way! |
Thank you, hope yours goes well also
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17 Jan 2008 Thu 04:23 pm |
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It's all gone wrong today, seems a fiancee visa can only be granted if you intend to marry IN the UK, and if you do want to get married in the UK you have to pay another £295 for a 'Certificate of Approval' on top of the £500 for the fiancee visa and as far as I can see, another £500 for the spouse visa once you are married.
Surely the immigration service are about making sure that the people coming from outside the UK are going to live and work peacefully in the community that they choose and not about trying to wring as much money out of them.
Instead, we are going to 'marry' in Turkey over the Easter weekend and apply for a visa after. 300 TYL for the paperwork that end, a £30 for my non-impediment certificate, still £500 for the settlement visa, but at least I won't be giving loads more money to the that theiving git known as Gordon Brown, anybody would think I don't pay my taxes!!!
(Sorry, written whilst still slightly irate!!!)
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17 Jan 2008 Thu 04:33 pm |
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Gordon Brown has never been on the top of my favorites list!
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17 Jan 2008 Thu 05:25 pm |
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By the time you get your wedding done in Turkey...he'll be ready to spring some more surprises, when's the Budget? Better not wait too long.
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