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Gayot Fow

Oct 9, 2019 19:20

The airport lounge at Hirta doesn't even have an airport!

Gayot Fow

Oct 9, 2019 19:20

My hat is certainly doffed to anybody who's been cancelled out of BEB and had to wait until the ferry was running!!!

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Gayot Fow

Sep 4, 2017 20:56

@JonathanReez I find it difficult to compose a reply when anything I write is taken as an 'insult' and deleted. Your comment will persist on the wp site and I'll post a more comprehensive reply in a different article.

Gayot Fow

Sep 4, 2017 20:53

@JonathanReez yes, it looks fine and hence approved. Bring it out into the open, and there's no need to post anonymously.

Gayot Fow

Sep 4, 2017 20:51

And I approved your comment on the wordpress site

Gayot Fow

Sep 4, 2017 20:51

@JonathanReez That's fine, I have screenshots saved. We'll visit this again during the next moderator election cycle. Thanks for your help.

Gayot Fow

Sep 4, 2017 17:17

@JoErNanO What is the recommended course of action in a situation like this? Anything I write in here, no matter how harmless, is taken as an 'attitude problem'. I am really sorry I have an 'attitude problem', does it mean I should leave the site like @Neanderthal did? Is that what you want?

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 23:10

@JonathanReez @HankyPanky got it right

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 22:06

@JonathanReez opinion based

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 17:35

13 minutes to mark and close a duplicate. Great performance!

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 17:35

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Q: My visa will expire the day I am leaving from the UK. Can that be a problem at the border?

I am planning to take my flight ticket on the day my UK visa expires. My partner has a resident permit and he will have to attend an important meeting. I do not want to book go earlier. Will that be a problem?

visas uk visa-expiration

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 17:20

@JonathanReez I can take a photo of my passports and upload it. :)

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 07:15

@Moo Cool people :) Yabloko

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 07:07

@Moo For the American side I'm in an awkward position politically, and the same for the British side. For the Russian side I am Apple party all the way... At least that's clear

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 07:01

I am proudest to be British, and then American but as a Vietnam vet it puts me in an odd position with the political scene.

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 07:00

@Moo I have 3

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 06:54

@Moo Looks like the American passport is better

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 06:44

@Moo no, please don't look it up, just curios to me to know incidentally

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 06:42

@Moo Any differences for an American or Russian passport?

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 06:37

@Moo both of them, interesting

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 06:20

@Moo I didn't know any of this, so we need visas like an entry clearance or leave-to-enter at the border?

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 06:03

@Moo wait a minute. a kiwi needs a visa for oz?

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 06:01

@Moo complex rules

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:58

Easy! You tell everybody in the Embassy to take a half-hour coffee break at Starbucks. Find the machine and BAM visa done

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:57

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Q: Swiss visa from London

If I need a visa to go to Geneva, is it better to go to the Embassy of Switzerland or the Visa Application Centre (VFS) for Switzerland? I travel to Europe quite often. What will give me a longer visa? Any hints would be appreciated!

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:56

Short residency and BAM Malta passport

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:56

Easy! You take 1.5 million Euro and invest it there.

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:55

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Q: I want to acquire visa cost from kenya to malta

what is the cost of visa from kenya to malta ,coz a friend wants me to go and work there as a salloonist,what am i required to do inorder to travel,have never visited any country and am a kenyan citizen,please advice .Thanking you in advance.

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:52

@Moo For me, it's sabre rattling, just like North Korea, but with paper, rules and regs.

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:48

@Moo It was sabre rattling.

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:48

Stupefied. And I could hardly contain my giggles

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:47

The guy was stupified!

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:47

So the airport police handcuffed him behind his back and put him in a chair and told him it would get worse if he kept it up

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:46

I AM AN AMERICAN guy tried to pull that one

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:45

I had a sick feeling of embarrassment because I'm one also, but you know what they did???

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:44

And he started a rant "I AM AN AMERICAN!"

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:44

Once I was helping an American woman who had told blatant lies and an American male was also in the same room...

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:43

@Moo she was bounced. The poor girl had to collect her entire suite of furniture and pay for it as luggage

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:40

So after some questions it turned out she was unemployed and had an entire suite of furniture in luggage. Bed, sofa, dining table, the whole shebang

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:38

And I asked her "What happened?" And she was in tears and it came out like "I said I was a tourist for two weeks and they put me in here"

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:37

Once I had an American girl, young, basically attractive, and she was in detention at Heathrow

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:17

Do you want to know something good you could add as an answer to that question?

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:15

And when they introduced the Points-based system PBS, ECO's who didn't agree with it would refuse all PBS applications

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:14

@Moo both! And ECO's were still working off of the primary purpose rule, you couldn't get them to stop

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:13

@Moo the deception rules were very very differentthen

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:12

Since I didn't need the money I specialised in overstayers and very interesting people with visa problems

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:11

End of chapter!

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:11

So that is the point when I had to do all the rigmarole of getting credentials

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:11

Sections 84 and 85 required practitioners to get a license

Gayot Fow

Sep 1, 2017 05:10

@Moo there's actually not much to tell, but I'll finish the first chapter. So along came the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999