I don't think you quite understand. This is not the only thing you need to do to get a visa.
Let me explain the process for me of moving from Australia to the UK
Pay fee for working holidaymaker visa, send passport and money order off, get passport back with visa in it. That means I could come here in June 2006 and then work for a full year. I worked the whole of 2007 then had to leave my job. Cost about 200 quid.
In January 2008 I had to apply for PERMISSION to get married. Sent passports off, came back with a piece of paper saying we could get married which cost £295. May 2008 got married, went to passport office in Liverpool, paid some silly fee (£800 I seem to remember). That meant I could stay here for 2 years and at the end of those two years if I was still married then I could apply to stay here permanently. At no time in that first 4 years was I allowed any benefits at all. I still had to pay tax and NI, but no access to benefits.
May 2010 I had to sit this pissing test so I could then apply. Applying was £900 quid.
I don't even have a British passport. To become a British citizen that's another £800 and then I'm sure I probably have to pay for the passport as well.
It's not as simple as merely turning up at heathrow and collecting your benefits cheque the next week I can tell you........
Please don't tell me what all the figures add up to. I don't want to know
