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So very close...
Anyone from the UK want to marry me?
I've just been checking out my visa possibilities - I have 90 points, out of a necessary 95.
Which means I am 5 points off getting a highly skilled migrant visa for England next year. 5 points!
This does not seem fair.
Looking into it, the only ways I can increase my points are:
a) get a PhD
b) get experience working in the UK (without getting a visa beforehand...)
c) convince my boss to pay me more money
Personally, I think it'll be a lot easier if I just circumvent the whole process by marrying someone with a British passport, and get my visa the old-fashioned way...
So: I'm young, I'm attractive, and I know how to cook. Any takers?
I've just been checking out my visa possibilities - I have 90 points, out of a necessary 95.
Which means I am 5 points off getting a highly skilled migrant visa for England next year. 5 points!
This does not seem fair.
Looking into it, the only ways I can increase my points are:
a) get a PhD
b) get experience working in the UK (without getting a visa beforehand...)
c) convince my boss to pay me more money
Personally, I think it'll be a lot easier if I just circumvent the whole process by marrying someone with a British passport, and get my visa the old-fashioned way...
So: I'm young, I'm attractive, and I know how to cook. Any takers?
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- i did have a different comment - but on reflection it might not have been taken in the vein i meant it...
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IIRC
1) So... how long would this arrangement/marriage have to last?
2) What level of effort would be required on the part of the intended?
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I do not enjoy summers here, if i had to chose between -40C or +40C its simple for me... go for the negative...
at least with the cold and wet you can wear more...
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Well, for one thing, when your government heritage lists something, it isn't usually to preserve the magnificent building designs of the 1960s.
You have grass that is actually green, rather than a sort of mottled brown colour.
The Mousetrap is still open in London, as is the pantomime.
From a professional standpoint, there's the London Underground. It is the dream of all rail engineers to see the London Underground.
Castles.
Harrods.
Awesome accents.
Villages. Actual villages!
The ability to go to Europe for the weekend.
The sheer oddity of kitchens containing washing machines.
Squirrels.
Plus, while Melbourne looks wonderfully inviting during the summer, it's also HOT. 40 degree days aren't all that uncommon, and the humidity goes through the roof. I tend to spend most of summer inside my house with the curtains closed and the air conditioner on at full blast, unable to set foot outside without being burned to a crisp, and unable to do anything inside that requires sound, because of the air con.
And winters, while cold, never go through cold and out the other side - which I've experienced once, in Germany, and enjoyed thoroughly.
Believe it or not, the weather is part of the appeal...
Mostly, I just have far too many things I want to see and do in Britain, and will never have enough money to afford a long enough holiday. So instead, I plan to engineer and tourist simultaneously.
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Did not know you were a railway engineer. Very interesting. And I quite understand the fascination with the Underground. I have a sort of love/fear relationship with it, as it can be scary but is also completely amazing. I'm particularly interested in the abandoned stations, of which there are many on the older lines.
Don't people have washing machines in their kitchens in Australia, then?
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As far as washing machines go...
Aussies look on in wonder at overseas television. Americans have washing machines in their basements (they have BASEMENTS), and Brits have them in the kitchen. Both of these are just weird and incomprehensible.
In Australia, pretty much all of us have a laundry somewhere in the house - function being purely as a place to store brooms, buckets, flyspray, bits of string, AND THE WASHING MACHINE.
My laundry is tiny, and apart from the washing machine and a big cupboard, it is purely there to house my cat's litter box.
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We would probably think of a house with a separate laundry as being rather posh.
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Although wouldn't they deduct 15 points for "being insane enough to want to live in Britain anyway"?
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Although wouldn't they deduct 15 points for "being insane enough to want to live in Britain anyway"?
Actually, insanity is a compulsory requirement...
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also... there is something about a 2 year rule IIRC - at least for australia (ie have to be married for 2 years after arriving in country
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I don't know about a work visa, though.
It's got me worried about my own plans, actually. Well, at least agencies exist...
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On second thought, maybe that won't work.
Better plan: You marry someone British to go to the UK. Then when you're UK-a-fied, you marry me so I can go to the UK too! I’m young, I’m attractive, and I..well I can’t cook, but I’m a great microwaver. And I like pets. And pina coladas. And getting caught in the rain.
And British and Australian accents.. So really, being married to an Australian in England, probably the best thing ever..
Then if we could just marry Wesley as well..
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We can travel round England drinking pina coladas, and swoon at all the awesome accents...
Definitely up for that one - how do we convince him, though?
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Or if that doesn't work, we could always mug him..