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Goodbye to rip-off Britain
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Quote from $preader:
You might want to look into the visa situation too,if you and your wife are both American your passports will only allow you to stay in the UK for 3 months,that's the visa waiver that exists between the countries.
You can apply for a 6 month visa at the Embassy but they will want to know why you are going,what you're going to live on etc etc
If you want to stay any longer it gets a WHOLE lot more complicated.You'd probably be alright for a little while leaving for 2 weeks then coming back but they're not stupid and you don't want to get flagged,especially if you've paid for rent and aren't allowed back in,even to get your stuff.
Also as a non-resident a landlord won't be able to do the background checks like they can here but if you pay a big chunk of the rent up-front and a hefty security deposit you could by-pass it.
http://www.americanpassport.com/ForeignEntryRequirements.html
According to the above site...
UNITED KINGDOM (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales) - *Passport required. Visa not required for stay of up to 6 months. For additional information, consult the nearest visa-issuing Consulate General: CA (310/481-2900), IL (312/970-3800), or NY (212/745-0200). Internet: www.britainusa.com/embassy
It looks like one can stay in the UK for 6 months without a visa. Do you know if that has changed?
Quote from the4xczar:
Yeah, you're right, we're always going around "invading" - such as leading the "invasion" of Europe in 1944: maybe we should have passed on that one.
I am sure that all the people who were killed while the USA sat on the sidelines ( and was only forced into the war by Churchill) will be shouting their thanks from the otherside.
But hey, carry on singing that old song; it makes up for all the other fkups your country creates.
Quote from fearless9:
It was Stalin´s actions that made it clear to US to enter the WW2 in europe.
The allied invasion of Europe was a race to Berlin against the Russians.
regards
f9
Imho can be debated ad infinitum
My point is that taking things into account like how long the US took to come to the party, the strong Isolationist lobby, the lend lease etc. into account exposes the fallacy that the US was this great benevolent power rising up against a tyrant which a lot of Americans always use to try to deflect any criticism.
Presumably you have read the book Stalingrad? Epic huh
Quote from magari:
Imho can be debated ad infinitum
My point is that taking things into account like how long the US took to come to the party, the strong Isolationist lobby, the lend lease etc. into account exposes the fallacy that the US was this great benevolent power rising up against a tyrant which a lot of Americans always use to try to deflect any criticism.
Presumably you have read the book Stalingrad? Epic huh
Read both Berlin and Stalingrad, both enormously powerful books.
regards
f9
Quote from gnome:
Don't you see this comment as a "I want it both ways" view? After all, it wasn't OUR party to come to initially.
Sorry with Germanyâs track record and proven intentions I donât think that there is any way you could argue that everything Germany stood for went 100% against what America stood for and what America should have been defending.
Anyway, I do not want to hijack this thread further so back to how rip off Britain.
Quote from magari:
Sorry with Germanyâs track record and proven intentions I donât think that there is any way you could argue that everything Germany stood for went 100% against what America stood for and what America should have been defending.
Anyway, I do not want to hijack this thread further so back to how rip off Britain.
1. Germany hadn't invaded nor declared war on the US, initially.
2. We weren't "policeman to the world" then as we are now... that in itself has its own tragic consequences.
Quote from gnome:
1. Germany hadn't invaded nor declared war on the US, initially.
2. We weren't "policeman to the world" then as we are now... that in itself has its own tragic consequences.
Germany was not your major problem, Russia was.
The thinking that communism was a threat to US sent your tourists off to Korea and Vietnam and it was the driver behind your war in Europe.
regards
f9