Immigrating to the UK

I opened a Barclays account with the app and them posting me the card and pin seperate.

The only prepaid esim I know of is Vodafone, its not official but if you get a prepaid physical sim then on their online portal you can do a sim swap to esim, done this twice but moved back to smarty (better pricing and smaller bundles)
 
killerbyte said:
What bank is everyone using in the UK?
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Monzo is effortless - all you need is a delivery address (you can even send to a friends house, no sig needed upon delivery) and a BRP.

Get your SA licence converted and the British licence will open up some more doors for banking (can be used for IDF & proof of residence)
 
Tman* said:
Monzo is effortless - all you need is a delivery address (you can even send to a friends house, no sig needed upon delivery) and a BRP.

Get your SA licence converted and the British licence will open up some more doors for banking (can be used for IDF & proof of residence)
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I have British Passport.
Tried to be cheeky and sign up for Monzo here, but the app detected the VPN.
 
Dave said:
None of the MVNO's do esim yet, only direct on contract with EE, O2 and Vodafone.
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Thanks for that. I'm going to chuck some golf balls away up in Scotland in May. Was hoping to just load an e-sim with data only on my phone. So looks like a mobile wifi dongle with normal sim is the only solution then.
 
ghaye said:
Thanks for that. I'm going to chuck some golf balls away up in Scotland in May. Was hoping to just load an e-sim with data only on my phone. So looks like a mobile wifi dongle with normal sim is the only solution then.
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Not many people here use a separate data sim, you normally just buy the size data allowance you want and they come with unlimited calls and texts included.
 
killerbyte said:
There is a WHSmith at Gatwick that opens at 6am (I land at 5:45am), I can get a GiffGaff sim card from there.
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I’d make the comment that Giffgaff is the most backward of MVNO’s on the worst network in the country (o2).

As a decent prepaid package I’d look at either Smarty (@Sinbad can confirm how he finds 3UK as he is on ID Mobile which is also a 3UK MVNO) or Lebara (which runs on Vodafone and had very cheap specials all the time). Both also offer all the modern network features like 5G, VoLTE, Wi-Fi Calling etc.

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Just checked Lebara, current offer is £1.49 a month for the first 6 months on their 12GB plan.


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To be blunt, 3 is crap in a lot of areas (like my house). But it doesn't matter, because VoWIFI
 
Any suggestions on how to get a car?

Can I just buy a 2nd hand one cash without all credit scores or proof of residence (or will the insurance part catch me out)?

Also whats the limitations on the HP process? Sounds like a way to get a car on monthly repayments without strictly being considered "credit".
 
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