I'm a MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST here in the PHILIPPINES. HELP PLS.

[joebloggs]

The student visa route is a workable one. A colleague of mine came to the UK from Cuba on a student visa, a few years ago. He took a degree in Engineering. But he had to fund the degree costs himself. He eventually married a British woman, took the Life in the UK Test and ILR and is a British Citizen now.

thats about the only way to stay here if you get a student visa, but i didn't want to mention that

Hmm ... well ... ... I'm thinking along the lines of 'Joe Bloggs' - ANOTHER of our Moderators - whose wife practised Medicine in the *Philippines after qualifying as a doctor there ... but, on migrating to the UK, was compelled to undertake many years of statutory Examinations and re-training - while simultaneously working as a laboratory technician/assistant - before finally being allowed to register with the General Medical Council of Great Britain & Northern Ireland ... a long, hard slog, by all accounts.

your right Arthur she worked in the vampire squad at the local hospital extracting blood from patients at local clinics part time for more than 3yrs her first step on a long journey, you'll find some Filipino nurses working in the UK are infact registered doctors in the phils, but for what ever reason they couldn't make it as a doc in the UK

the registrar asked her the other day what country was she from, she said Philippines, he said he never met a doctor from the Philippines before, nearly every other country but not the phils, nurses he had met many but never a doc working in the UK. .

[lastlid]

thats about the only way to stay here if you get a student visa, but i didn't want to mention that

Not an easy route in. Cuba is a relatively poor country too so stumping up for the fees didn't come easy to him. And when he was in the UK he not only had to study hard but also continue financing himself with work at the same time. And then he had to find the right woman to marry.... And then find the fees for ILR and Citizenship. He only lately got a job as an Engineer.

He didn't come here intentionally looking for a bride.