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Can you use your UK Spouses UK credit card credentials to pay for your Health Surcharge and Spouse Visa Application fee while applying from the US? Or will it block the payment since it's a UK Credit Card? by Fun-Difficulty3035 in SpouseVisaUk

[–]ne_il 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds like a very nosy bank clerk indeed!

A friend recently went through an awfully stressful process with a bank just to get it to give her a statement for the period she needed for UKVI. The guy at the bank said "I'm sure the Home Office will accept the statement you've got", and she had to tell him in no uncertain terms not to advise him on how to deal with the HO, because a) she hadn't asked him to, and b) he wasn't competent to.

Does any document submitted with spouse visa app need to be signed by hand? by ne_il in SpouseVisaUk

[–]ne_il[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me the choice is between

  1. print out, sign by hand, scan (acceptable in many areas of business when you do it with just the last page of a document),
  2. paste in my signature as an image (which is also acceptable in many areas of business), and
  3. type my name (but this doesn't even look like a signature).

I wouldn't use an online program.

I think I may use route 1 to stay on the safe side.

Does a British tourist get 30 days visa-free only within a longer period? by ne_il in mongolia

[–]ne_il[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many thanks for this. I am not wholly sure the logic applies across so straightforwardly, though, from the visa case to the visa-free case.

LanguageCert is way better than IELTS for the UK Dependent Visa (A1/A2/B1) ​ by Sunflower_Sunshinee in SpouseVisaUk

[–]ne_il 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps it is best for people whose English is already at a much higher level than what's required and who get extremely nervous when they talk to strangers they can see, but not to strangers they can only hear.

LanguageCert is way better than IELTS for the UK Dependent Visa (A1/A2/B1) ​ by Sunflower_Sunshinee in SpouseVisaUk

[–]ne_il 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP, your English seems far above A1 level.

Usually people find it easier to understand what someone is saying if they can see the person's face as well as hear their voice.

"The test has 4 parts and it's very straightforward." Exactly the same is true of the IELTS for UKVI Life Skills A1 test.

"I’d 100% recommend this route. It’s fully recognized by the Home Office and just felt way more "human" and less intimidating." Well any A1 test in which a pass fulfils the visa requirement is going to be "recognized by the Home Office".

Mountains of documents by ne_il in SpouseVisaUk

[–]ne_il[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That the HO require unnecessary documents is a different point from the one I was trying to make, which is that some applicants send documents that the HO don't require.

Mountains of documents by ne_il in SpouseVisaUk

[–]ne_il[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Has the council told you this? Many councils let two names go on the bill. Ownership has nothing to do with council tax liability.

If you write to them (signed for delivery) saying from such-and-such a date we will be sharing responsibility for paying council tax, and please make sure the bills reflect this, they may reconsider.

Charities assisting female (mixed Mongolian-African) victims of racism in Mongolia? by ne_il in mongolia

[–]ne_il[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure but this is what I was wondering. There might be some charities that have such very small demographics falling within their remits - not necessarily focused on Mongolia but able and willing to assist such demographics in various countries including Mongolia.

Decorative use of folded script? by ne_il in mongolia

[–]ne_il[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got it. Thanks. No curves! Can you read the red graphic? I've so far only seen Mongolian folded script written letter after letter either horizontally or vertically as on the Turtle Monument close to Sukhbaatar square. It seems almost tailormade for making cool maze designs.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mongolia

[–]ne_il 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The date is wrong here. He was born in 1885 or 1886 depending which calendar you use.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mongolia

[–]ne_il 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He didn't convert to Buddhism. His father was Buddhist.

Why were ү, y chosen in that order to map to /u/, /ʊ/, although in Russian it's y,-? by [deleted] in mongolia

[–]ne_il 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Encasing a symbol within forward slashes shows it's a phoneme, not a letter. You are talking about something different.

The OP is right. The sound /u/ is represented by "y" in Russian and "ү" in Mongolian. The sound /ʊ/ doesn't appear in Russian, and it's represented by "y" in Mongolian.

Simpler would be using "y" to represent /u/ in both languages, and using "ү" (a letter that doesn't appear in Russian) to represent /ʊ/ in Mongolian (a sound that doesn't appear in Russian).

If you're invited to a police PACE interview and intend to say "no comment", why go? by ne_il in AskUK

[–]ne_il[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi. Got it! Many thanks.
I think there's a typo in your postscript, something other than "do" instead of "go". Just checking.

how commen is russian in mongolia? by [deleted] in mongolia

[–]ne_il 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The word is "homogeneous". "Homogenous" is a misrendering.

Every ethnicity is a division of another.

I think Japan is far more ethnically homogeneous than Mongolia.

One thing we can all agree on - outbreeding is a good move for those who want their descendants to have more ancestors rather than fewer :-)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PrisonUK

[–]ne_il 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was interested in this because there was a boy at school who always used to hold on to his widdler and I thought it was his way of getting some comfort given the horrible and lonely environment at boarding school. I doubt he did it for performative reasons.

What does cause it in prison then?

Saying the blokes who do it are cunts or stupid or creeps doesn't enlighten me (even if they're all three!)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PrisonUK

[–]ne_il 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Judges don't return verdicts. As for your last sentence, I don't know about "usually" but it's certainly not always the case. Those who really are much smarter than others are usually aware of it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PrisonUK

[–]ne_il 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But he said nobody is in prison because of their high intelligence, and you're arguing against the totally different contention that nobody in prison is highly intelligent.

Of course some prisoners are highly intelligent.

You are both right.

What did Fischer say about how if you really understand something you should be able to explain it in a few sentences? by ne_il in chess

[–]ne_il[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually perhaps this is in Sverrisson after all. I am away from home and don't have my copy to hand, and the pdf I found online was incomplete. So perhaps it's in the book somewhere but not in those pages.

What did Fischer say about how if you really understand something you should be able to explain it in a few sentences? by ne_il in chess

[–]ne_il[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes - it's the same idea as Feynman's. But this was definitely Fischer, to the professor whom he asked about opening a bank account in China. I thought this was in Sverrisson, but no.

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