Returning to the UK with family

[ulike]

Hello everyone

Just a little update for who is interested.

We have a final hearing date At court and everything should be finished next month.

Our little one is doing well in school and it's amazing that just being in uk 5 months she is more English than thai now!!!

She will be fully English with our name -- all this within 5 months of entering the uk.

I am so proud to be british, the social workers to judge are so fantastic.

Thanks again for all advice in the early stages

[ulike]

Hello everyone

I just wanted to say that my little girl had her adoption order made and is now a british citizen. All this after arriving in the uk in July so just 4.5 months.

All I say is thank you to you all especially 7by7 and steady. And always take the best legal advice in difficult cases so you don't waste time.

Now we can all be happy and not worry.

Thank you

[Jay Sata]

Wonderful news.

[ulike]

Thanks jay :-)

My husband is applying for his Irish citizenship by decent so I guess our daughter will also get that automatically!!

[ulike]

Hi Everyone

Lovely British passport arrived today. so just over 5 months since arrival in UK. £30,000 in all legal / visa / expenses etc etc etc. Justice for can afford but nothing I can do about that, which is so bad.

If anyone in similar situation needs help, just send me a message.

Thank you so so so much everyone. My little girl is next to me reading her book in English is healthy and happy.

The End

PS even as a happy Buddhist, I want to say 'mind your own business' if we get asked another question by immigration, home office, social workers, silks, or judges.....and especially an incompetent ECO or a grunting passport checker.

Edited January 6, 2015 by ulike

[ulike]

I felt so embarrassed last night but I think I get his behaviour even a little bit. My husband and daughter travelled back from Amsterdam last night with me. We went to the UK passport desk, I handed over the passports and the Officer asked, 'where are you coming from', my husband, like lightening strike, said 'mind your own business where we been don't ask us any questions, I sick to death of you people' he then passed over the boarding passes and just stood silent like a little school boy when he asked him how long we had been in Holland. He was then asked if our girl was his daughter, which he replied 'well, she's yellow, I'm white of course she is my bloody daughter, you know this already from the passports, detain us or give me the passports'. He gave him the passports.

My husband is a good man, he loves my family but I can see how stressful he was about this now and how this is building up in stress inside his brain for a long long time. The only other time I saw him so mad is when we left the middle east and a Saudi was using his phone on the landing descending into London. He grabbed the phone and but it in the toilet, as we were bulk head and the Saudi was exit.

Anyway, just my rant to say it is a long long horrible process dealing with immigration and even good men get stressed.

[HerDad]

An update on this long effort, my Mrs directed me here as we are all still grateful. 

 

The legal bill for the UK adoption was just under 40,000 Sterling in the end. Worth every penny, our daughter may be ethnically Thai but she is British to the core and this allowed us all to realise our right to family life in the UK.

 

Interestingly, the Thai government never accepted me as father however the Mrs is a true warrior and never gave up. After all these years I was asked to attend the Amphor and finally invited as her father to sign the papers to change her name from her Thai birth name to her British surname. She was then issued with a Thai ID card in her namea name change cert and us detailed as parent. 

 

Finally. 

 

@7by7 @steadyand all the others helped my Mrs above, just know that my daughter is top of her class, is insistent on studying hard, is a reader a thinker, an old soul and intends to become a doctor, she has changed her mind from being President of America, the girl aims high. Bless you and I hope you see that efforts do pay off and result in changed lives.

 

 

 

 

Edited August 27, 2019 by HerDad

[globalThailand]

Amazing story and congratulations!  President of the US may be out, but there's a chance she could aim for PM one day! ????