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Immigrating to the UK
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I can't screenshot Experian?
Jirre. I'm struggling like hell to get a Schengen visa. Checked the Netherlands, Belgium and France and I just cannot an appointment. Doesn't matter where in the UK I try to get a booking. Anyone have any ideas? I'm tempted to fly the family back to SA and do it from there at this stage
Mephisto_Helix
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Had a good score for about a minute 
Sinbad
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I got my wife a Spanish one by paying a lot of money for a home appointment
I need to check if they do it in Birmingham... Otherwise I'll frankly book a night somewhere in London to do it.
Rocco1
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no, e-visa implemented for UK.
Safers without a UK passport will need a shengen
What, you fell for the scam, no man!
Top tip 1 - check later in the evening for appointments for the next day or two. Seems to happen often appointments for next day pop up the previous evening.
Top tip 2 - do a walk in. As long as you have ALL the documents and everything else ready, they will help you on they day.
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Also Try Capital One.Credit score finally went up by 16 points to "Ok" from "Needs work"
Wonder if I will be approved for a credit card now, really just need something with even a £100 limit in order to help my score along...
I think I read a comment from Sinbad about Loqbox and I signed up for that when I got here, it definitely seemed to have helped a bit
I got a £200 limit after I think 6 months in country.
After using that responsibly, Monzo Flex gave me a £3000 limit after that
killerbyte
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I use F1TV Pro on my FireStick 4K Max with an OpenVPN server that I run on my Plex server back in SA.
How did you setup a server in SA for this?
killerbyte
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I have my own personal server at a family member's house.
Had a quick look but can't get past the eligibility check as they don't allow me to put in an address outside of UK
Why would you want to specify non-UK address? They pretty much want minimum 3 years of a UK address. If you don't have 3 years, just use the first UK address you have and backdate it to 3 years.Had a quick look but can't get past the eligibility check as they don't allow me to put in an address outside of UK
NB: This is not legal advice, it my personal experience of living in SA
Why would you want to specify non-UK address? They pretty much want minimum 3 years of a UK address. If you don't have 3 years, just use the first UK address you have and backdate it to 3 years.
NB: This is not legal advice, it my personal experience of living in SA
Some places allow you to manually enter an address outside of the UK. But it's not a problem, I was just getting annoyed but I'm just going to have to be patient with the process. I don't really want to lie on an application about something that's easily verifiable either. And apologies @Tman* , didn't mean to sound annoyed at you! I appreciate the recommendation
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There are plenty of lenders who will accept SA address history, just shop around.
I am still 3 weeks away from having 3 years UK address history. I have a mortgage and my credit card limit is over 50k.
I've had an aqua card, capital one, some other credit builder I can't remember, and more lately tesco and my last card was an HSBC elite with a lunatic limit.
I am still 3 weeks away from having 3 years UK address history. I have a mortgage and my credit card limit is over 50k.
I've had an aqua card, capital one, some other credit builder I can't remember, and more lately tesco and my last card was an HSBC elite with a lunatic limit.