Immigrating to the UK

Priapus said:
Cool cool I’ll go with Octopus and do it once I’m there. I’ll ask the agent to ask landlord if we can get a smart meter installed if there isn’t a lot of cost to it.
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Good idea, I’ve saved a fortune being on Octopus Tracker the last couple of years.
 
Who does everyone use for their ISP? Want to look into getting that setup just before we move.
 
Priapus said:
Who does everyone use for their ISP? Want to look into getting that setup just before we move.
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or get a £16 a month Smarty uncapped Sim card and pop it in a 5G modem if your area has good enough coverage.
 
Priapus said:
Who does everyone use for their ISP? Want to look into getting that setup just before we move.
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I'm with Virgin Media. The product itself is good - have had hardly any downtime in nearly two years.

They are renowned for price gouging on renewal though. Like ridiculously so.

But from what I understand the service provider to go for is generally quite area specific.
 
Tman* said:
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or get a £16 a month Smarty uncapped Sim card and pop it in a 5G modem if your area has good enough coverage.
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Looks like there’s some good deals with Sky. Which we might consider as we will be getting sky installed. So maybe get everything done through them?
 
It all depends what infrastructure there is in your area. The big networks are very price-gougy and often not great performance wise, especially if the last mile is up to ****.
 
I wouldn’t even have Virgin with @Sinbad paying for it. They probably have the worst customer service in the country and if you’re in a congested area can see irritating drop outs in tue evening (and I say that as someone who used them for many years).

I’ve been pleasantly surprised with Vodafone Broadband for reliability and customer service and recommended them to @Hamish McPanji and amazingly haven’t heard any complaints from him about them.
 
According to post code checker I can get up to 900mb. Which seems excessive. I have 100/100 now. But I see everyone advertises “average speed” and “full broadband” seems more complex than it needs to be.
 
Dave said:
I wouldn’t even have Virgin with @Sinbad paying for it. They probably have the worst customer service in the country and if you’re in a congested area can see irritating drop outs in tue evening (and I say that as someone who used them for many years).

I’ve been pleasantly surprised with Vodafone Broadband for reliability and customer service and recommended them to @Hamish McPanji and amazingly haven’t heard any complaints from him about them.
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lol because their customer service isn’t even IN the country.

Had Vodafone broadband for a couple of years, and I guess it was fine, but maxed out at 67Mbps, and only went with it because Virgin and fibre weren’t in the area, and I got a discount as a mobile customer.

Wanted fibre when we moved, but still nothing, but at least we have Virgin again: 1Gbps down for £39/month. Think we’ve had one day in almost 2 years where it was throttled to like 20Mbps - no outages though - and that’s in Kingston, which is heavily congested. SamKnows has me at 1146Mbps to the router, so no complaints.
 
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Hamish McPanji said:
Yup. Some January offer from Vodafone. 900mbps fibre for £28/month , with like almost 3 months worth of cash back. Includes the phone line (keep your number) , which made my mother in law happy.

Downsides :
24 months contract
7% Price increase kicks in April 2024

Upside :
Don't have to worry for 2 years
900mbps is awesome. We had 150 with sky
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Dave said:
I’m sure Imran got Vodafone 900 for around £30 a month.
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Yeah would’ve definitely have gone for that if it was available here, but it’s all FTTC, not FTTH, so fastest speed is still 67Mbps. Pisses me off that they still market it as “blazing fast FIBRE”. Pity about the shitty copper from the cabinet to your home, though.

So, cable it is.
 
Hatefulsandwich said:
Okay, my application for Citizenship based on Section 4L of the British Nationality Act was successful, which is great.

Now I need to navigate the application for Retention of my South African Citizenship. I'm having a really hard time finding the specifics of what is required for this. Anyone have any experience with this?
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  1. 2x copy of passport
  2. 2x copy of ID
  3. 2x copy of UK letter (should have got a no-name generic letter from agency you applied through stating "someone" is applied for UK citizenship or some such thing)
  4. complete form BI-1664 (app for Retention citizenship)
  5. complete form BI-529 (Determine citizenship)
  6. Find a home affairs that has a citizenship desk.
  7. Apply and pay R300
  8. Wait 3-6 weeks
  9. Pick up approved retention of SA Cit letter
  10. Hope you get it before UK citizenship acceptance ceremony - 12 weeks after successful notification
 
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Hatefulsandwich said:
Okay, my application for Citizenship based on Section 4L of the British Nationality Act was successful, which is great.

Now I need to navigate the application for Retention of my South African Citizenship. I'm having a really hard time finding the specifics of what is required for this. Anyone have any experience with this?
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Ok, so don’t mean throw a spanner in the works, but I think you need to have applied for the retention BEFORE you applied for your UK citizenship, because part of it is a letter from the UK government stating that you do not hold nor have you applied for British citizenship yet.
 
The Voice said:
Ok, so don’t mean throw a spanner in the works, but I think you need to have applied for the retention BEFORE you applied for your UK citizenship, because part of it is a letter from the UK government stating that you do not hold nor have you applied for British citizenship yet.
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That was my understanding as well.

However, wasn’t there a SA con court ruling that said the whole retention process was unconstitutional?
 
Dave said:
That was my understanding as well.

However, wasn’t there a SA con court ruling that said the whole retention process was unconstitutional?
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Yes, there was, but the law hasn’t changed yet, so still stands. That’s the next step.
 
Dave said:
That was my understanding as well.

However, wasn’t there a SA con court ruling that said the whole retention process was unconstitutional?
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Yes. Was just about to say that the constitutional court ruled in July of last year that you cannot loose citizenship because you got another from a differ country.
 
Hatefulsandwich said:
Okay, my application for Citizenship based on Section 4L of the British Nationality Act was successful, which is great.

Now I need to navigate the application for Retention of my South African Citizenship. I'm having a really hard time finding the specifics of what is required for this. Anyone have any experience with this?
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It’s too late now for you I think. You had to do this before you got citizenship
 
How does the SA government find out if you have citizenship elsewhere?

If you don’t tell them… then?
 
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