Sunjackal wrote: ↑Wed, 06 Oct 2021 9:00 am
Hello Ash,
Hope you got your LTVP stuff sorted? You never came back to your last post.
My situation was basically this:
Wife is Singaporean. Her spouse visa (UK) expired on 27th July and our tenancy was up on the 7th August. I got permission from U.K. government for her to stay until our tenancy ended on 7th August.
We emailed and explained we hadn’t booked a flight because we wanted permission to enter before doing so. In the end, I just booked my flight for the 7th August and then I kept emailing the ICA and explained I needed approval to return as a family on this date.
They literally emailed me my permission to enter letter on the day before the flight, so it was a pretty harrowing experience.
The thing is, my wife and son are Singaporean. I don’t know if they’ll be as inclined to help you (they might well do). All I can suggest is that you explain that you’ve booked for when you’ve booked, that you need them to issue your letter around this date, and then you have to hope that the flights don’t get cancelled.
Not sure what else to suggest.
Sorry Sunjackal! It's been a stressful month or so organising things.
I haven't got my LTVP, unfortunately won't be able to apply for that until I'm in Singapore, but I have got a LOC agreed in principle with my employer.
I've now just found out that safe travel lanes have opened up for the UK and I now won't have to quarantine. However, I've just paid $2k for quarantine for me and my partner, which when I paid for it stated it was non refundable... I'm hoping that can now be refunded now things have changed but it's now clear.
Oh god, that must have been worrying to hang on that long! So are you in SG now?