Hello,
I just was just hoping that somebody with more knowledge and experience than I may be able to provide any information or advice.
I’ve from UK and my wife is Argentine, we have two children born here in Córdoba where we have lived for the past 6 years.
We’re planning on going to UK for 6 months to see how we go, and then live there long term if we all like it and adapt. We’d be staying with my parents, so would have a permanent address and phone number. I don’t meet the earning requirements for the spouse visa, so realize we’d have to go the "Surrinder Singh" route. My wife’s sister has lived in France for 11 years, so that would probably be the easiest.
UK passport office said that we’d be able to get the kids UK passports when we’re there, and worldbridge said that my wife would be able to enter without a visa for 6 months on a one-way ticket as long as we had the tickets to France booked beforehand.
Does anyone have any information / experience going this route? If we got the children’s passports as soon as we got there, would there be any visa we could apply for from the UK on the basis that she is the wife of a British citizen and mother of two British citizens, and arbitrarily moving to a third country would be disruptive to our children’s school life? (I realize you could say that we’re doing the disrupting by moving, but it seems the only way it can be done.)
Any advice or pointing out glaring holes in my plan that I’ve failed to see would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers!
I just was just hoping that somebody with more knowledge and experience than I may be able to provide any information or advice.
I’ve from UK and my wife is Argentine, we have two children born here in Córdoba where we have lived for the past 6 years.
We’re planning on going to UK for 6 months to see how we go, and then live there long term if we all like it and adapt. We’d be staying with my parents, so would have a permanent address and phone number. I don’t meet the earning requirements for the spouse visa, so realize we’d have to go the "Surrinder Singh" route. My wife’s sister has lived in France for 11 years, so that would probably be the easiest.
UK passport office said that we’d be able to get the kids UK passports when we’re there, and worldbridge said that my wife would be able to enter without a visa for 6 months on a one-way ticket as long as we had the tickets to France booked beforehand.
Does anyone have any information / experience going this route? If we got the children’s passports as soon as we got there, would there be any visa we could apply for from the UK on the basis that she is the wife of a British citizen and mother of two British citizens, and arbitrarily moving to a third country would be disruptive to our children’s school life? (I realize you could say that we’re doing the disrupting by moving, but it seems the only way it can be done.)
Any advice or pointing out glaring holes in my plan that I’ve failed to see would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers!