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by frisbee
Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:02 pm
Forum: Claiming Benefits
Topic: Advice seriously needed ! Complicated situation (I think) ~
Replies: 14
Views: 4002

i talked to canadians yesterday on the visa I speak of, maybe I got the name wrong but you can come and travel and work, and you can work the whole of the two years as recently changed. Why would her immigration history effect this? Everyone has been quite happy for her to be popping in and out of ...
by frisbee
Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:39 pm
Forum: Claiming Benefits
Topic: Advice seriously needed ! Complicated situation (I think) ~
Replies: 14
Views: 4002

I suppose I'm not used to reading this minimal writing style, apologies where necessary. The arranged marriage issues and other things are just unpleasant family rather than danger, not enough to be an assylum seeker. We're starting to accept the lack of options and she is going to go back to canada ...
by frisbee
Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:34 am
Forum: Claiming Benefits
Topic: Advice seriously needed ! Complicated situation (I think) ~
Replies: 14
Views: 4002

republique, ...great stuff there... Maybe you've spent too long reading about visas that you can't see the human side. I'd have thought people on a visa advice forum would be trying to avoid being part of the machinery. When I say I've kept her out of the benefits, obviously this is not because she ...
by frisbee
Sun Jul 12, 2009 2:56 pm
Forum: Claiming Benefits
Topic: Advice seriously needed ! Complicated situation (I think) ~
Replies: 14
Views: 4002

thanks Wanderer hmmm, yes she's been working full time since she had to drop out of university coming up to two years ago, but still has paperwork from the university that has allowed her in and out of the country. My research did suggest that if I get married my benefits get slashed to nothing but ...
by frisbee
Sun Jul 12, 2009 12:14 pm
Forum: Claiming Benefits
Topic: Advice seriously needed ! Complicated situation (I think) ~
Replies: 14
Views: 4002

hi Vinny. Just read the page you linked to. Couldn't quite take it all in... We live together now and have two rooms within a share house of four. Hre rent is particularly cheap as the room is tiny. Which aspect of the maintenance and accomodation requirements do you think are the problem? Is there ...
by frisbee
Sun Jul 12, 2009 2:12 am
Forum: Claiming Benefits
Topic: Advice seriously needed ! Complicated situation (I think) ~
Replies: 14
Views: 4002

Advice seriously needed ! Complicated situation (I think) ~

Hello and thanks for reading. Well, the situation is this: I am british, and claiming income support, housing benefit, and disability living allowance. This has been the case for some time, partly institutionalised but equally health issues are serious and degenerative. Miraculously however, I have ...