UK politics make me cancel visit

[hobbitofohio 10]

I (USA national) am married to a Russian national and she has her US green card. We were planning to visit the UK for a few days on a trip to Russia to see relatives. However it is canceled.

For me to visit the UK or Canada for 5 days it is simply show my USA passport at the POE.

If we wanted to visit most Common Wealth nations like Canada, she need only show US green card and Russian passport. No visa needed for short visit.

The UK want visa for 5 day visit. OK. So we look at the visa form and they do not want simple tourist type information. They want information about our USA income, our saving, etc!!! We are not wanting to move there just visit. My income is none of the UK governments business. I am a USA born national and am very offended that a close so called friend of the USA treats me this way.

So to everyone with a UK passport, (including the Queen and her family, the PM and the rest of the UK government), I will need to see the same information if you ever wish to visit my private home. Clearly, I need to be sure your visit to my home is not your trying move into my home. I am sending a letter to the Queen, PM and UK Washington embassy stating the same thing. (I know they would never be wanting to visit my private home, but I am so offended that I want them to get equal treatment to the treatment they give my family.)

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

I (USA national) am married to a Russian national and she has her US green card. We were planning to visit the UK for a few days on a trip to Russia to see relatives. However it is canceled.

For me to visit the UK or Canada for 5 days it is simply show my USA passport at the POE.

If we wanted to visit most Common Wealth nations like Canada, she need only show US green card and Russian passport. No visa needed for short visit.

The UK want visa for 5 day visit. OK. So we look at the visa form and they do not want simple tourist type information. They want information about our USA income, our saving, etc!!! We are not wanting to move there just visit. My income is none of the UK governments business. I am a USA born national and am very offended that a close so called friend of the USA treats me this way.

So to everyone with a UK passport, (including the Queen and her family, the PM and the rest of the UK government), I will need to see the same information if you ever wish to visit my private home. Clearly, I need to be sure your visit to my home is not your trying move into my home. I am sending a letter to the Queen, PM and UK Washington embassy stating the same thing. (I know they would never be wanting to visit my private home, but I am so offended that I want them to get equal treatment to the treatment they give my family.)

If your wife were Pakistani the UK would have offered you a house by now.

[Rebecca Jo 1,962]

I (USA national) am married to a Russian national and she has her US green card. We were planning to visit the UK for a few days on a trip to Russia to see relatives. However it is canceled.

For me to visit the UK or Canada for 5 days it is simply show my USA passport at the POE.

If we wanted to visit most Common Wealth nations like Canada, she need only show US green card and Russian passport. No visa needed for short visit.

The UK want visa for 5 day visit. OK. So we look at the visa form and they do not want simple tourist type information. They want information about our USA income, our saving, etc!!! We are not wanting to move there just visit. My income is none of the UK governments business. I am a USA born national and am very offended that a close so called friend of the USA treats me this way.

So to everyone with a UK passport, (including the Queen and her family, the PM and the rest of the UK government), I will need to see the same information if you ever wish to visit my private home. Clearly, I need to be sure your visit to my home is not your trying move into my home. I am sending a letter to the Queen, PM and UK Washington embassy stating the same thing. (I know they would never be wanting to visit my private home, but I am so offended that I want them to get equal treatment to the treatment they give my family.)

They aren't treating you, a US born national, in any certain way. If you have a blue passport, you can just hop on the plane and visit Blighty any old time.

It's your wife who needs a visa because she's from the former Soviet Union. Get her a blue passport and she can visit Great Britain just like you!

And btw, if you are going to spin your wheels writing a letter, send it to the right agency. UKBA.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

Isn't this pretty much the same information the US would ask of a Russian needing a visitor's visa to come here?

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

I (USA national) am married to a Russian national and she has her US green card. We were planning to visit the UK for a few days on a trip to Russia to see relatives. However it is canceled.

For me to visit the UK or Canada for 5 days it is simply show my USA passport at the POE.

If we wanted to visit most Common Wealth nations like Canada, she need only show US green card and Russian passport. No visa needed for short visit.

The UK want visa for 5 day visit. OK. So we look at the visa form and they do not want simple tourist type information. They want information about our USA income, our saving, etc!!! We are not wanting to move there just visit. My income is none of the UK governments business. I am a USA born national and am very offended that a close so called friend of the USA treats me this way.

So to everyone with a UK passport, (including the Queen and her family, the PM and the rest of the UK government), I will need to see the same information if you ever wish to visit my private home. Clearly, I need to be sure your visit to my home is not your trying move into my home. I am sending a letter to the Queen, PM and UK Washington embassy stating the same thing. (I know they would never be wanting to visit my private home, but I am so offended that I want them to get equal treatment to the treatment they give my family.)

Like other posters have pointed out, your wife holds a Russian passport, you hold a US passport and if you were to have her family come visit the US you would be filling out similar paper work.

I'm surprised you didn't know about this before you were even married. It's pretty common knowledge.

Edited November 18, 2011 by Why_Me

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

If we wanted to visit most Common Wealth nations like Canada, she need only show US green card and Russian passport. No visa needed for short visit.

List of Commonwealth nations for which a Russian citizen would need a visa:

· Anguilla

· Australia

· Belize

· Bermuda

· British Indian Ocean Territory

· British Virgin Islands

· Brunei

· Cameroon

· Cayman Islands

· Commonwealth of Dominica

· Cyprus (unless you arrive directly fromRussia at Lanarca Airport only)

· Falkland Islands

· Gambia

· Ghana

· Gibraltar

· India

· Kiribati (Kiribass)

· Lesotho

· Malta

· Malawi

· Montserrat

· New Zealand

· Nigeria

· Pakistan

· Papua New Guinea

· St Kitts & Nevis

· St Lucas

· St Lucia

· Sierra Leone

· Solomon Islands

· South Africa

· Swaziland

· United Kingdom

Sorry to hear about the cancelled trip, but just to let you know this is EXACTLY the same sort of info the US asks for when someone is applying for a B-2 tourist visa.

Edited November 18, 2011 by Honey Crumpet

[Danno 1,228]

Ahh it's just as well you canceled the trip to the UK, it either rains all the time or looks like it's going to.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Short answer: try to figure out what it takes for you, an American, or a Brit, or a German, in formal invitations, visa processing fees, and disguised bribes to visit Russia for 5 days, and you''ll understand why many Europeans rather castrate themselves with a broken beer bottle while screaming "#### Russia!" and skip their plans of visiting the Kreml, before putting up with this crazyness.

Seriously!

The U.K. for Russians is a walk in the park compared to Russia for Brits.