So, I received emerging news just before Esther this year. My wife got her new passport now for the most people that wouldn’t be getting news. But for my wife because she is not from the UK, there was her fast passport so it was an emerging thing to happen. Just to give you some background on why it was so important and so special if you are not from the UK and you get married to a citizen from the UK. takes between 5 and 6 years before you can get an actual passport. You can live in the UK but you are not allowed to get a passport. You have to apply multiple times and the mountains of information and spend thousands of pounds trying to get that done. And what that does is it creates a huge problem because if you have what’s called spouse Beesha for the UK and you don’t have one of the premium passports that allows you to travel around the world. It means you are stuck in the UK. So for about 5 or 6 years we were living in the UK but my family could only travel to wife’s home country. She couldn’t travel to Europe, she couldn’t travel to America without going through a very stressful process of applying for Bishas there. So getting this passport was emerging news because it means that we can go on holiday, we can travel anywhere pretty much in the world Bishas free and it just literally opens up the whole world to my family. And to celebrate I booked a holiday to Portugal. It was the first time my wife had ever been to Portugal and we were able to just bridge through immigration with a British passport.
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So, I received exciting news just before Easter this year. My wife got her new passport. Now, for most people, that wouldn't be significant news. But for my wife, because she is not from the UK, this was her first passport, so it was an exciting thing to happen. Just to give you some background on why it was so important and special, if you are not from the UK and you get married to a citizen from the UK, it takes between 5 and 6 years before you can get an actual passport. You can live in the UK, but you are not allowed to get a passport. You have to apply multiple times, and the mountains of information and thousands of pounds spent trying to get that done create a huge problem. If you have what's called a spouse visa for the UK and you don't have one of the premium passports that allows you to travel around the world, it means you are stuck in the UK. So for about 5 or 6 years, we were living in the UK, but my family could only travel to my wife's home country. She couldn't travel to Europe or America without going through a very stressful process of applying for visas there. So getting this passport was exciting news because it means that we can go on holiday; we can travel anywhere pretty much in the world visa-free, and it just literally opens up the whole world to my family. To celebrate, I booked a holiday to Portugal. It was the first time my wife had ever been to Portugal, and we were able to just breeze through immigration with a British passport.
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