Cape Style Dress: Your Best Summer Outfit When You Travel

by Ronel Marin

Firstly, this post is made for the all the women out there who wants to be as chic as they could especially this summer season. We all know that girls are loving to have their body flaunt, not all – I know, as they are gone for the beach. But you know what? there’s a certain fashion finds that you should get on and be consider before you hitting the beach and be as fashionable as you could, as possible. The piece am talking about was this Cape Style Dress that been originated in south Africa where women out there are used to wear this tribal kind of swim cover that can makes them look so unique and quirky hence might as well you have yourself one of this for you to rock on this summer season.

Actually, this dress is now gradually getting up to the list for the most consider piece for summer as for the women’s fashion trend this year, 2017. Hence, fashion enthusiasts are keeping an eye in this because some were predicting that the piece will went in lead among all the summer women pieces today thus a lot of fashion icons and even some of the fashion bloggers I knew are now getting themselves some pair of it from the online shop called Zaful.com. By the way, zaful.com is one of the reputable online shop today in the market and they’ve been in the business for some years now and at the same time they’ve already gained some credits from the well known personas and even the mostly fashion companies we knew. Go check them out now and see for yourself on how lovely their each pieces were. The shop also sells some men’s finds, just want you to know, and they’re fond in selling some men’s accessories too that can help you spice up your whole outfit that you trying to pull off.

And if you birthday is approaching, you might as well get their sexy birthday dress that is pretty reasonable and cheap to have. Also, if you want to free stuff from them it is very timely as the shop is celebrating their 3rd year anniversary which can give you a change to win some cool stuff. Check below for details:

Zaful 3rd Anniversary blog giveaway

My dear followers, there are some news I would love to share with you guys. One of the biggest online fashion store “Zaful” is now celebrating their 3rd anniversary.

 I’ll checked out the details about this anniversary blog giveaway. TBH, It’s quite awesome. The link to their blog is over here: https://zafulofficial.wordpress.com/?lkid=79980

Who doesn’t love giveaways? Go to their blog and take a look. I would be very happy if you tag my name【InexpensiveBlog】after participating the giveaway event. Zaful will choose a couple of winners after the event and give out huge rewards!

 Many thanks!

How to Score Cheap Flights?

by Ronel Marin

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Travelling in a budget is one of the most talked about topic today, in teens especially. Because teens these days considered travelling as their hobby or perhaps their way of finding themselves, what they wanted in life and for course to even mingle and makes new friends. Yes! that’s how active and confident the teens are now today. Hence, I came up to this idea in giving out tips on how you can score a great airfare to save you up some bucks to travel.

Subscribed To Airlines

First thing you’ll have to do is to subscribe to any airlines you wanted to fly for, by this means you can update yourself in their sale seats firsthand and you can always take advantage on their subscribers sales that happens merely each month, depending on the airlines though. And airlines usually have this point scheme where you can exchange your airline points to any flight as you reached the corresponding amount points ,maybe, for a free flight. Learn about this by checking your favourite airline to fly for because airlines has differ reward system so I cant detail it out further.

Check Comparison Airlines Websites

it’s not gonna hurt you in checking comparison flights sites. Because these websites has all the access in all the airline’s sale which can make your job easier as you’ll just have to put in your supposedly flight details then the website itself generates and finds all the best deals you could ever have. I actually recommend this as this works in me so many times and one of my fave comparison website that I constantly checking was this skyscanner.com where I always gets an below 50 USD flight deals.

Attend in any fairs or events

Usually, airlines are fond in partaking in any tourism fairs or events that held casually in the malls, I think they doing it once or two times a year, where they exclusively giving out some discounted flights or even a 80% off in your keen flights as the part of their agreement to the department of tourism wherein this way they can encourage people to go out and have some fun times by visiting these beautiful scenery that they are currently campaigning for.

Choose the right Airlines

Usually, each country has this budget airline where they selling seats inexpensively than to the flag carrier airlines hence you should check them out first before booking your flights. You might gonna score the cheapest fare ever!

MY UK Visit Visa is Approved!

by Ronel Marin

After the days of waiting anxiously. I finally got my passport yesterday (April 27, 2017) with my UK visa labeled on to it. The whole process takes 10 business days that begins to the date I lodged my application to the VFS Manila. But base to the (UK) British Embassy website they process each visa application up to 15 business days hence you dont have to worry as you haven’t heard anything from them within 10 business days prior to your last date lodgement.

Anyway, you can always up an query regarding your visa status at this page: https://ukvi-international.faq-help.com/ and an email will be send over to you that contains your visa current status for your convenience, just dont forget to include out your reference visa number that begins with: GWF******* that you can find at your VFS Receipt. You can also use this reference number by tracking down your passport at 2GO courier once the VFS made the shipment already.

Also, UK Embassy doesn’t disclosed the information regarding your visa application yet ( approved or denied) until you gets you passport back and see if there’s a visa labeled to it…

Don’t forget to check my other entries regarding on applying UK VISIT VISA:

  1. Applying for a UK VISIT VISA  2. Acquiring UK VISA: Appointment Day!

 

 

Acquiring UK VISA: Appointment Day!

by Ronel Marin

As I’ve said, If you done completing your online application, have it printed out and already got your appointment date for the submission of your application package and for collecting Biometric and next step was to present yourself at the VFS ECO Plaza Makati Manila. Be sure that you’re 15 minutes early upon your appointment time as they’re allowing applicant to enter the building 15 minutes early.

VFS Manila ADDRESS:

VFS Manila Visa Application Centre
Mezzanine Floor, Unit M01 Ecoplaza Building
2305 Chino Roces Ave. Extension
Makati City 1231
Manila

United Kingdom Visa center was located at the second floor and as you goes up you may see a guard there asking for your appointment letter to present hence dont forget to printed out your appointment letter or less they cant allow you at all to enter the building.

Tips:

Don’t bring bag inside, actually you can but you’ll have to deposit it over to the locker beside to the guard area and it has a fee ( 75 PHP) which is not reasonable at all because you’ll probably staying at the building for like 10 minutes, in my case, so paying for the locker is not really a good idea. Better to have a companion who will wait you outside who can carry your belongings for awhile.

Also, make sure that you have your checklist ready as well that you can download beforehand over this link: https://www.vfsglobal.co.uk/philippines/Document-checklist.html. Because the representative will ask it over but if you forgot to brings yours, dont fret! as they have a spare checklist to give out for you to fill it up. 🙂

VFS Fees?

This is only optional though: if you opt to have your passport delivered at your home address there was a corresponding fee for that and it’s : PHP 525.00 and if you want an SMS update you can also get that by paying PHP158 which I dont recommend at all. Why? because they just texted me once stating that my application was being forwarded to the UK Embassy and after than I haven’t received any from the Text. haha! But they do email you as well regarding on the updates and status hence you’ll be not needing the SMS for that matter.

What to wear inside VFS?

Please dont overdress! VFS is not a embassy they’re just collecting our applications hence you can wear sort of “casual” wearing while lodging your application. Actually me, am just wore my obey sweat shorts and a basic plain tees when the time I lodged my application and still I can able to enter haha just dont wear tank top/sando and slipper, I guess.

 

 

Applying for a UK VISIT VISA

by Ronel Marin

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Who wants to see the queen in the Buckingham palace? I know most of you out there are raising your hands and me included, as it was my dreamt to see UK, London specifically, because the city has a lot of majestic views to appreciate and the culture itself is quite specially I think, though I haven’t expose myself that much in it and still, I was fascinated in what am seeing over the postcard that a friend always bought home for me hence it pushes me to apply for my very first UK Visit Visa.

Applying for a visit or general tourist visa in the UK is the most painless and easiest than to the other embassies that I’ve been through. Because all you have to do is the complete your application forms, get your documents ready and filed them in order base on the checklist and lodge them out in the VFS office in manila if you are in Luzon particularly but to those who are residing in Visayas and Mindanao no worries though as they have an VFS office in Cebu that you can visit for your visa lodgement, and I’ll be writing down the address below for your convenience.

Documents To Provide?

For the first timer in applying for a visa, I know the concern you may have was, what are these documents to present to have my visa application be approved? Well, there’s no specific documents needed that the embassy requires beside to your bank statements, employment certificate, your current passport that should be valid 6 months prior to your travel in the UK, evidence of your income that indicates your monthly salary, ITR and a letter from your HR stating the total amount you getting as an employee for the monthly basis – you can also include this details on your employment certification. And of course all applications or applicants has different situations to established for you to have the visa approved. Might most of you has a family member sponsoring you for the trip or a friend perhaps that might shouldering all your expenses while in UK and so – for that matter, you should provide an additional documentation that can justified your application like a letter from your sponsor stating that she or he shouldering all of your expenses while in the UK. And for the applicants that has a family member in the UK you should established your relationship by giving out a proof of relation – what are these docs? You can provide your both birth certificates for the legal basis and you can always show some of your old pictures together hence the officer may see that you have a strong family relationship.

And to those who haven’t an ITR & COE to present like myself, Please dont fret as you can always write an explanation letter stating why you’re lacking to these documents. Yes! I did this and luckily I got my visa approved!!! Yes to that!! hehe

If you do have your courage to apply for your UK Visitor Visa now, you can start completing your application form by making your online account here: https://www.visa4uk.fco.gov.uk and for the fee, please do check it below and make sure you know the visa category you’re applying for as I included all the fees per visa category:

Standard Visitor

Visa types Visa application fee (USD) Visa application guide
Short-term (up to 6 months, single or multiple entry) 116 Visa application guide
Longer-term (valid for up to 2 years) 438 Visa application guide
Longer-term (valid for up to 5 years) 796 Visa application guide
Longer-term (valid for up to 10 years) 997 Visa application guide

Short-term study

Visa types Visa application fee (USD) Visa application guide
Short-term study (up to 6 months) 121 Visa application guide
Short-term study – To study English Language 233 Visa application guide

Business visitors

Visa types Visa application fee (USD) Visa application guide
Business visitor – academic visitor (up to 12 months) and dependant 233 Visa application guide
Business visitor – clinical attachments, dental observation and PLAB/OSCE test 121 Visa application guide
Diplomatic courier 116 Visa application guide
Permitted Paid Engagements 116 Visa application guide
Prospective Entrepreneur 116 Visa application guide

Special visitors – marriage or civil partnership

Visa types Visa application fee (USD) Visa application guide
Marriage or civil partnership 116 Visa application guide

Special visitors -parents of children at school

Visa types Visa application fee (USD) Visa application guide
Parent of a child at school (up to 12 months) 645 Visa application guide

Special visitors -child visitors

Visa types Visa application fee (USD) Visa application guide
Short-term (up to 6 months, single or multiple entry) 116 Visa application guide
Longer-term (valid for up to 2 years) 438 Visa application guide
Longer-term (valid for up to 5 years) 796 Visa application guide
Longer-term (valid for up to 10 years) 997 Visa application guide

Diplomatic/Official Visitor

Visa types Visa application fee (USD) Visa application guide
Diplomatic Passport Holder Free of charge
Official Invitation by UK Government Free of charge

Course F visitors

Visa types Visa application fee (USD) Visa application guide
Course F (main applicant and dependants) 116

Visitors in transit

Visa types Visa application fee (USD) Visa application guide
Visitor in transit 81 Visa application guide

Once you’ve done your application online and had made your payment already and got your appointment date for lodgement in the VFS office – (you can all do these on your VISA4UK account). You can now relax and wait for the day given for you to visit the VFS. Addresses are listed below:

VFS Manila Visa Application Centre
Mezzanine Floor, Unit M01 Ecoplaza Building
2305 Chino Roces Ave. Extension
Makati City 1231
Manila

VFS Cebu Visa Application Centre
503, Keppel Building, Cardinal Rosales Avenue Cor Samar Loop,
Cebu City, 6000 Cebu, Philippines

Please do read my post “Acquiring UK VISA: Appointment day” for you to know my personal experiences inside the VFS office and on how convenient and smooth their procedure was.

Taiwan Immigration News: Southeast Asian Countries Can Now Enter Taiwan Without Visa

by Ronel Marin

Good news folks! Starting this June 2017 mostly of the southeast Asian Countries, Philippines included, are now able to enter taiwan without a visa. Unlike when the last time where you’ll have to have this travel Authorization Certification that you can only acquired if you have any of these first world countries visas that you can pass in the details through to Taiwan’s Bureau of Consular Affairs online. But not no more as there’s a news made already and we can take advantage on this for one year as this free enter is on the trial base for one year as states on the Taiwan’s immigration website. For more details you can always check Taiwan’s Immigration website because this might change in due time hence checking it yourself before flying is a great practice to avoid a future trip in trouble.

These are the countries that will benefit this Visa free Entry; Philippines, India, Indonesia, Myanmar Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

UPDATE: Taiwan’s Immigration has postponed the free entry visa privilege for Filipino this June and moving it up by September but let’s all wait for their proper update regarding this so better not to book yet your tickets.