British High Commission redeemed themselves

after a few frustrating moments with me trying to contact the entry clearance officer and her trying to contact me and sounding a tad unenthusiastic the second time she got my answerphone, we finally got to speak to each other.

it was a quick, informal interview which circled around how i got here and why. it guess it was to establish that i came here and is staying here legally. although i didn't have any strong reasons to come back, meaning i don't have own any property, no relatives and although employed is not earning too much that i would consider going back if i do intend to stay in UK, i do have reasons to stay with Martin. So since he is a British citizen, he (just like before) acted as my "good moral character" reference. I guess it made sense that Martin would be responsible for me and once she was satisfied (with a letter from Martin plus a copy of his passport's biopage), i got my UK visitor visa in less than a week.

i have to say, they are quick and pretty straight forward. i feel particularly pleased thinking that she might have gone the extra mile calling me after office hours assuming (rightly) that i'm not able to answer my phone while working. kudos to the UK High Commission in Wellington!

just a suggestion, it would be helpful if the website specifies the time to call if you want to be connected to someone about your visa application, seeing that we have to contact an 0900 number that charges $3.50 per minute. because i didn't know what time to call, i waited for the clearance officer to call me until 4:45pm before calling the visa section only to be told that i should have called between 9:00am to 3:00pm. aside from that, it's all good.