Help with Visa Application fees
This is not something Toren or I ever planned to do, or wanted to do.
We need to raise money for Toren's visa application in April. The application is £3000. This includes an £800 24 hour decision fee, as if they don't process it in the 28 day window they give her to apply then she is deported until the decision is made. And last time they took 7 months to come back to us with a decision. So although it may be seen as an added expense, i hope you all understand why this is necessary.
The situation is reaching an incredibly drastic time and we're at our wits end, and after talking to a few people about this route we've received enough encouragement that hopefully we won't be looked at as scrounging.
Totally upfront... we HAD the £3000 for the Visa, this was gotten through a high interest loan, and we thought (and hoped) it would mean all pressure would be off. However Toren wasn't kept on after her maternity cover job, which ended last November, and since then we've had to use and use the loan to pay month to month bills and living expenses.
Those that know me know that i honestly work every hour i can. Nothing is too much though, though sadly it seems that everything isn't enough. I work 7 days most weeks and Toren has been trying like crazy to get another job.
Her stress levels are high, my stress levels reached i point i never thought possible, which actually threatened my employment and saw me taking 2 months off last year when i couldn't afford to take any time off.
Not saying this as a sob story, and i never usually talk about my mental health at all. However we decided in doing this we'd be totally upfront about why we need the money and the effect it is having on us
We hate asking for anything. However if any of you CAN give, it doesn't matter is if 20p, we would appreciate it so much, i could be more eloquent, but there's genuinely no words to express what it would mean to us.
If you can't spare anything then could you maybe share this so people that know us can see it (and maybe beat facebooks algorithms when it comes to audience)
Honestly. Straight up and no bull s**t, i can't lose Toren, if i need to take out another loan at an even higher interest rate and throw the next ten years of my life in the financial crapper i will without hesitation. She's my whole world. But if there's a way around that happening, or if we can get any help that would make any further loan i have to take out less that the amount asked, then we will take any help we can get and thank you from the bottom of our hearts
Thank you
Faz & Toren