As you may or may not know, studying and/or working in another country involves getting a visa. I need a student visa, and my husband comes along as my dependent - odd, since *I* won’t be making any money, and his official job description is now Sugar Daddy. In any case, the British immigration office wants to make sure that we won’t be going on welfare, and so they prescribe a certain amount of money that we’ll need. That amount is:
My tuition: £12,000
Living expenses for me: £800 per month, for 9 months
Living expenses for my “dependent spouse”: £533 per month, for 9 months. Living expenses are for London of course, they’re significantly less if you’re studying elsewhere.
Total: £23,997. Or in Canadian, $43,352.72 according to today’s exchange rate.
This is the amount we need to have IN OUR BANK ACCOUNTS (or actually, if we have a line of credit for that amount, that also suffices) before we can apply for our visa. And of course applying for visas needs to be done, like, yesterday, since I would like to be showing up in the UK in about 6-7 weeks.
Excuse me while let my mind go boggle for a little bit.
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