Roj Bash Kurdistan

I am an english woman and I am married to the most wonderful kurdish man in the world, we got married in Syria in November last year. Unfortunately he is stuck in Kurdistan and I am stuck here at the moment, we are awaiting an appeal from the courts to decide if he can get a visa to come here (and I am sure I can read 90% of the minds reading this - married for visa) well read on if we are not successful on this appeal my son and I will be relocating to Kurdistan, I have been informed by the Iraqi embassy that I can apply for a visa and visit Kurdistan for about 3 months, but i cant stay there so, I guess we will be illegal after 3 months. I would love to hear from anyone else in this situation, if they have any advice.

welcome to Rojbash..

uhm.. if you are going to stay in one of the kurdish cities,, then you will have to apply for visa over there... im sure they'll let you stay

welcome...

Thanks for replying kurdangel, but my husband lives in a village near duhok, will that make a difference to my visa? Also Iraqi Embassy told me I would not be allowed to stay, but they would not put it in writing.

Hello Jacqueline and welcome to Roj bash

Iraqi Embassy is not a good souce to get information in regard to Kurdistan . If you are legaly married , you could apply for a permenant residency in Kurdistan once you get there . I'm ver sure of that

It will be also be very easy for you to get a Job as a teacher ,

Good luck , Dohuk is a beautiful , they call it " The Bride of Kurdistan "

Hello Talsor yes we are legally married twice so far we had first marriage with an imam I believe it is called a Nicar marriage. Then we went to the Syrian court and got married again and got our marriage certificate. I am hoping that he can come here first and we can get married under the english law, then if we decide to come back to uk at a later date, we wont have all this governments legal rubbish to deal with. My husband lives in a village outside Duhok near Turkish border, I have lots of pics of the area and you are right it is very beautiful over there. Unfortunately my husband does not want me to work, he wants to be the one to provide for me and my son, but I will bear that in mind because it will help me to pick up the kurdish language quicker. Thank you.

jacqueline, you can go to ''language'' forum to learn some phrases in different dialects of kurdish. also feel free to ask for translations too.
nicar? it is called nikah.

Thank you ashna i will visit the site you mentioned i could do with the practice lol

hello my dear ... jacqueline!
welcome to Roj baş kurdistan ( Good morning Kurdistan) forum! .. hope you enjoy your staying and looking forward to read more and more about you ...

i'm Sîver, from Hewlêr Capital of Southern Kurdistan ( Iraqi Kurdistan) ... and i'm glad to hear that you married to kurdish guy and you love him that deeply! i hope what is best for you .. and about being in kurdistan .. i don't think there will be any trouble since you married to this kurdish guy .. our GOVERNMENT loves foreign people and they won't accuse them by illegally staying ..

kind regards ..

Hi and welcome Jacqueline, I hope you're well!

Like you, I'm English and married to a wonderful Kurdish man and honestly, I know what you're going through (been there, done that, bought the t-shirt, lol!) - I'm sure everything will be fine and you'll be back with your husband before you know it - good luck!

Take Care.

Welcome to RBK!

Did your sweetheart get a visa?

Thank you everyone for being so kind, we have a court date now to appeal our case for him to come here, if that fails, which I am sure it won't, then I will be packing up everything here and moving there. I love my husband very much he is my dle mn reha mn jiana mn and it is so hard to be apart from him but inshallah soon we will be together, either in UK or in Kurdistan.

Thank you everyone who has made me welcome.

I had court today 16th september 08, for our appeal, I think it went really well, so I am praying that in a couple of weeks we will get acceptance letter. If we do and the horrible home office doesnt appeal, then my husband and I will be together again around the end of November 08.

i hope it all works well in the meantime u shud learn bahdini(dont ask me i need to learn it too lol)

Thanks Kurdiboy, but surely if you are kurdish then you can speak bahdini? I know a little but not enough to get by lol. I am sure my husband will teach me more when he comes ready for when we go back to kurdistan in a couple of years.