What's Happened? DECLINED Portuguese visa UPDATE!
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- Опубліковано 26 лис 2022
- We finally get some news on our declined visa and it's EXPENSIVE! We have some HUGE thank yous for some of our subscribers and we get on with some off grid chores.
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Well ya still smiling in this photo 🙂 Brightest thing I've seen all day 🙂
Try to smile even in the face of a, challenge! 😁☺️😎
There’s no stopping you guys. Definitely fingers crossed about your visas. Rosie is a credit to you both ❤
Thanks Denise, she's certainly a beautiful, creative and all round super person 💚💚💚💚
Have you considered building a cob house? A house like that you can build in every shape you want. For insolation you can use straw bales. I was just fantasizing. You first have to get your visa. I hope you get it this time. You deserve it.
That's a great idea! And a very good friend of ours is using straw bakes, I'd definitely like to give it a go and it looks, so natural, beautiful as well 🌻💚🌻
I pray 🙏 that it will all work out for your family and that your dream continues to be fulfilled. 🌻🐈
Aw thanks I hope so, but we WILL find a, way 👍💚🌻🌞
I hope for your sake that they will finally give the hard earned visas this time. good to see that you are still working hard on the garden and staying positive. Many greetings!
I hope so too and really need to get our swales dug in! So we're ready by spring 💚🌻🌿🌱☘️
Ugh, I’m so sorry you guys are going through this! We came over to Portugal a little over a year ago and have driven all over the country multiple times, looking for where to buy. In doing so, we’ve seen numerous abandoned villages, which are either dead or on their way out. The country needs you, and others like you, willing to revitalize and bring life to these areas!
Totally understand the frustration (and idea to move to Morocco!). I’m positive things will work out in your favor, hopefully sooner than later.
Also, note to Missy - been meaning to comment how your positivity and style are always uplifting to watch. Don’t let this bureaucracy dim your light. ✨
Hang in there, guys! 💕
Aw thanks Mg what a lovely comment... We shall keep the faith and our lights shining a bright!
It is, equally frustrating especially as, we've lived here over a year, are intergrated and as you say revitalising an area which is, rapidly becoming empty of its people as the young move to cities etc.. Around us 5 farmers left of 100s of plots, all of them in their 70s...
But prob 30 or so off grid homesteading peeps, and family like us...
And thanks, again for your positivism 💚💚🌻
@@TheWildlandersOffGrid hi brother and sister how Are you
All great thanks 💚👍😁
4:30 no no no, no giving up just yet!
I'd hate to see you end this, it's amazing to follow, but my mail to you can still be a last way out but I honestly hope it isn't where it ends, but you have the offer/option.
artichokes awe amazing! some don't like em but they make good soups. should be able to leave them in the ground... we can do that here in Denmark which is much colder... they have a nutty flavor, I have even used them in mashed taters before :D good taste
keep your spirits high, your lives colorful and your smiles big :D go go Missy and Don!
Thanks Jesper and no we shall prevail 💚
Shall try the artichokes later I think 🌻
Good stuff. You deserve to do well👍🏻🌟❤️
Cheers, Ed very kind of you 💚🌻😊
About Jerusalem artichoke:
Make them in the owen with garlic and oil or with potatoes in a gratin with cream.
You can leave some of them in the soil over the winter. Here in Sweden we just leave them and they can endure as low as - 25 grC. But, beware of the effect of the inulin that is in the fruit. Dont eat too much or too many otherwise you will get very fartish. 🥴
Mm gratin sounds like a lovely idea... 😋
Fartish! 😎
I call them fartychokes, they make a nice soup Google a recipe.
Bless you. All the Best to you all .
And bless you for your support 💚🌻💚
I’m glad you guys are staying positive and cracking on with the land. I really hope we get to see you next year when our camper is completed (though it feels like it never will be at present!) really love what you are doing - great vlogging and music looking forward to your videos coming out 👌
Thanks Beau, and campers take ages took us 8 months to build ours, sure you'll get there and you'd be most welcome to stay here 💚🌻😊
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys.
Our pleasure! And all our love back at ya 💚🌻💚
Praying that you get that vise 🤞💯
Aw thanks Celia, me to to be honest! 💚🌻💚
Best of luck with the appeal. Take care and stay well. All the best. 👍🐾🐾😎
Fingers crossed! Again lol and thanks Rob have a great week 🤞💚👍
I hope and pray you get the visas soon. Good luck.
Aw thanks Lesley I hope so too 💚🌻💚
good luck you guys sure it will good in the end
Thanks and Hope so 💚🌻💚
Hope you get the visas soon, .... you deserve it 100%. good luck. love your Chanel.
Thank you so much!! 💚🌻💚
Good luck with your visa. You both work so hard💖👍👍
Thanks so much! 😊
Great Video guys and hope you guys stay there in Portugal 🇵🇹 love watching your Journey.
Aw we'll defo find a way to stay 💚🌻
@@TheWildlandersOffGrid glad to know you dont give up , Portugal in my experience is a much better Country then Marroco.
I just subscribed and, as a portuguese, I hope you'll get your visas and wish you all the best.
Aw thanks on both and welcome to the channel 💚🌻💚
You'll get it, you're good peeps, just believe🙏
Positivity, pma and manefesting, we shall succeed 💚🌻💚
And thank you 😊
Keep being positive guys you will get your dreams in the end
We shall prevail 😁🌻💚
I hope you prevail. Lots of luck with your appeal. 🇨🇦🙂👍👍❤
I hope so too everything is still crossed 🤞🤞🤞🤞
Good luck with your appeal, keep faith
Aw thanks Martin, fingers toes, are crossed! 🤞🤞🤞🤞
Good for you for persevering fingers crossed for success. On the artichokes my mother grew then and they made a delicious filling soup. 🙏👌😋
Sounds great! Digger Dave took some yesterday and jade, a wonderful looking soup....
will give it a go too ❤️
Hi in the wildlands good luck with your visa application and appeal don’t give up.😊
Fingers crossed! And thanks 😁🤞
Thanks!
Welcome! Tha k you Sandra 💚🌻💚
Love your vlog,,I'd say its a sign of Good news. Just remain positive and carry on working your land. Would you consider having a few sheep or pigs to help with the clearing of your land? 💚
I think so 💚🌻
Love piggies 🐷🐽🐖
Noooooooooo don't do it dom. Love watching your vids. Keeping my fingers crossed for you all.
Lol we shall prevail and thank you 😊
its looking beautiful your place. God bless
Thank you so much 😊
I’m just about to watch this, I can’t bare it! I hope you get to eventually sort this out xxx
Aw thanks, we shall prevail 💚🌻💚
Just be prepared, those Jerusalem Artichokes are delicious but give you lots of gas!
Haha I'm already gassy so that will be fun, can I use it to power anything? Must be an off grid application.... 💨
Simple things like filling and lighting the stove has more satisfaction than the flick of a switch, as I do. So pleased that things got moving with the application process, which seemed to have halted at a refusal. Huge amount of bulbs for planting or eating, so let there be light 💡
I absolutely love the burner, miss it in the summer ❤️
you have been through the mill. missy you are looking exhausted, look after yourself and when you do eventually get your visa I'd love to be at the party! sending positive vibes to you all take care. Suzie xxx
Thanks Suzie, I feel very well just a bit of a cold and it has been damp for weeks!
@@TheWildlandersOffGrid take care xxx
I’ve got a very very good felling about your visa situation….you will get it…..the key was the Portuguese lawyer, I think…..great news, I’m so glad for you !
Me too! And I certainly hope so, so we can get on and feel settled rather than in limbo! And thank you 💚🌻💚
Wishing you all the best guys. Must be very worrying. Hope you do get your visa xx
Aw thanks Mandy does put a downer on it at times but we shall prevail 💚
@@TheWildlandersOffGrid never give up just have faith. You are creating a wonderful space there. This rain is lovely but does not half hamper the outside work eh? Lol
Yep was my day off from editing youtube today to get loads of lil chores done and to wet! 🙄
@@TheWildlandersOffGrid xx
I hope all good happens in your Visa
Thanks very much Miguel, me too 💚🌻💚
Goodness, fingers crossed your appeal goes well for you.
I’d be surprised if those Jerusalem Artichokes don’t over winter in the soil, they do in the UK. We used them in soups, as you say boiled but I think our favourite was roasted like parsnips or potatoes.
Thanks on the appeal, we shall prevail, and yes loads saying they overwinter OK here, I've lifted them all now 😂 that said were redoing the whole garden and they needed more space and deeper planting...
Agree with others on the Jerusalem artichokes, beware of constant wind if you eat too much. We gave up growing them on our allotment for this very reason. Mind you, didn't know about the milk thingy and they do have a lovely flavour. Good luck! 💨 😄
Hope your visa situation works out good for you. 🙏 💟
Good to know! The farts have been strong I can confess from experience 😂💨
Fingers crossed for you guys . I'm in south Portugal In my Motorhome , many years to south & middle Portugal 🤞
Thanks Patt and love the South, bet its warmer, we've had a frost here already! Brrr
As an immigrant to the UK I can tell you that the UK make it a holy hell to get a visa that costs thousands of pounds and many years of blood sweat and tears. I can only imagine what the Portuguese have to go through to go to the UK. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Not that I don't sympathise with your plight. I have been there. Its horrible and gut wrenching.
I get your logic, except the UK is overpopulated vs Portugal which has the oldest and fastest declining population in Europe. Also vast swaths of land and houses even entire villages, are empty. Portugal is being revitalised by people like us, that's not me sounding arrogant, it's, straight from the locals including our mayor... But certainly get your point. On the basis we have private health care, jobs, land etc would make sense to approve us 💚
@@TheWildlandersOffGrid I completely agree with you. Portugal needs migrants... although, UK needs them too in certain areas. Look what happened when there was a shortage of drivers a few months back! But portugal needs people more than anywhere else in the EU. Especially young migrants as their own young generation have migrated to other countries.
Thanks and agree, frustrating for me as I'm against rules, and borders so tonpkay the game and get all thus grief is, doubly frustrating!
Just to let you know a British person is not really responsible for the immigration policy of the UK.. if immigrants get a hard time in the UK that's between the immigration people and the immigrant.
In the same way these guys can't blame the Portuguese people for there struggles..
This situation is crazy as Portugal is desperate for new life in the central region of the country.. it's a dying population.. just look at the population figures .. all on the internet to see..
The UK is very crowded a totally different situation and I understand why it's harder to get in there..
I imagine trying to get into Norway or Switerland is probably much harder again...
It's not a tit for tat situation... I actually find your reasoning very petty and childish
Most come to UK as economic migrants. UK is over populated, we can’t have just anyone in to use it’s welfare benefits, social housing, free heath care, education etc at tge expense of it’s own citizens. it is only right UK chooses who they allow in.
Just used your wish list
Hope it helps
Aw thanks so much was it the Plank? And very kind of you 💚💚💚
It’s great to see you being positive and carrying on regardless, that’s the spirit. Live in the moment, that’s all we have and you are all doing great. Did you investigate go fund me? Looking forward to Wednesday.
Thanks Michelle, and debating Gofundme, presumably you're on board!? If I'm honest I'm not sure how I feel about it but we're going to give it A go 💚😁
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4:34 You are always welcome to Morocco bro my beloved country 😂. Surely things will take care of its own but time and patience are needed, I always think countries shouldn't have borders and they should let people to decide where they want to live on this planet earth. Morocco 2 Belgium 0 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦😂👍 today
Agree on the borders! We didn't consent to countries or borders or taxation for that matter!
Once we get our visa and can move freely again we DEFINITELY wish to visit Morocco 💚💚💚
About Jerusalem artichoke: they are named "the forgotten vegetable". why ? when eating them you can have some gas build of, to avoid that, you must add a lot of milk in your water to reduce it.
Oops the wind was, strong 🍃💨🤓
as a potato i find jerusalem artichokes a dissappointment. but if you fix them as if they were artichokes, they are lovely. smother them in garlic mayo or garlic butter, and you will enjoy them. also, the survive german winters in the ground, so they should do well doing the same in poertugal. only harvest what you can eat in 3 days, they do not store well.
Great advice, sadly harvested them all, but most we're storing to replant in spring
Have a nice wood door to offer
I so hope you get your visa. Shits about to get a little bit heavier and It won't matter what side of the globe your on. Check out died suddenly it's worth the watch. Life is certainly a journey. Keep on smiling, that's the only way forward 👍
We're pretty 'awake' and tbh kinda stay away from all media, we dropped the msm years, ago, but life's, so much more peachy with little information on the doom and gloom of the world....
And tha ks on the visa too 💚🌻💚
@@TheWildlandersOffGrid I've not had the TV or mainstream on for years. This is more of a documentary involving the US army and embalmers. It's an eye-opener to what's around the corner.
I have a great wood door in great condition . You would have to get it close to Sardoal (andreus)
Ohh could be lovely, it's, a fair way to us I think would you send me a picture please and your location to:
Thewildlandersoffgrid@gmail.com
And thanks ❤️
Make terra preta for your veg patch.
Use a copper headed pointy tool.good against disease copper tubing round it and worm castings lots of water the soil will be black.
Soil in portugal is not that good in most areas as we noticed when there.
Looked that up, terra pteta seems to be a tyoecof rich soil, but couldn't find any tutorial on how to make it, any links?? And thanks, hope alls, wonderful with you 🌻💚🌻
@@TheWildlandersOffGrid glazer et al 2001.good paper easy to do.theres also preta makers online give you an idea.the missing ingredient im told is Mycelium,maybe amanita as it grows worldwide and well in portugal.and dont forget the worms.
You could try a flood and drain system with solar powered return pump,hydroponics off grid food maker dripper system even gravity fed.
Keep going
I only noticed now, you had your hair cut Dom…..🤣🤣🤣…much better fella 🤣🤣🤣
Ta buddy 👍😁
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I really think you will be successful with your appeal this time, but if your not then Portugal doesn't deserve you!! and it's there loss not yours. 💖💜💛
Aw, thanks and I'm confident 💚👍🌞
Busy week ahead! Take super care, Laura ❤
Aw thanks for those kind sentiments lilybet 💚🌻💚
I'm totally gutted, had a cry, you are so deserving to stay in Portugal.
Everytime i sit headphones in to watch, one of the dogs needs attention, and with spain playing its loud around us
Ah yeah forgot about football as not my thing! Our dogs often need attention 🐶😎
I just leave the tubers in the ground now and they seem to be fine. You could always mulch the area if it was in a frost pocket. When I did dig them all up, I noticed that the Chinese variety sent out runners which would lead to another tuber deeper in the ground. The White Truffle variety seemed to be more localised to the base of the plant.
Ah we've lifted them all now m, but no biggycas gotta move most things to start over with swales. Thanks, so much again for the plants Gary, hope everything is going well in your garden?
@@TheWildlandersOffGrid Let me know what vegetables Missy is looking for, no promises but I might be able to help. That's assuming the voles have left me some.
Everything you gave us last year did well, anything unusual really. We've to lift all our perennials etc soon as putting in swales, etc... So will need lots of coverage to hold swales and berms 💚
And the voles! What buggers they seem to love my bananas!! All our carrots too!!!
@@TheWildlandersOffGrid Now we know how Elmer Fudd feels. I could dig up a comfrey plant when you need it and divide the roots. I'm not sure if you were going to use strawberries for ground cover, but I could dig some plants up if you wanted. I grew Oerprei last year for the first time and was impressed, I can give you a small cell tray of them but it'll probably be next week before I'm down. Jason's Jungle has a couple of good videos about Oerprei.They have the same growing period as garlic, so are harvested before the heat of the summer. I'll email you after I've had a look what's there.
@@garywatson3102 sounds great 💚 definitely on the strawberry and comfrey, strawberry did wel here in some places, that had decent shade but mNy got fried! The Oeiprei sounds interesting will have to Google that!
I've already said this in your other video and made a bet... you gonna get your visa soon and you owe me a beer.
If we get our visa you can have several beers mate 🍻🍺😁😎
@@TheWildlandersOffGrid love brother/sister. I'm only kidding. Nonetheless, you gonna get the visa soon. I will buy you a six pack X 2 myself. 🙌
Ohh that's, a, deal!!! 🤝👌😎🍻🍺🍻🍺🍻
What a joke. I’m glad you were able to submit the appeal from your immigration lawyer. We’re sending positive vibes your way.🤞🏻
Those pink flowers are gorgeous 🌺 and obviously popular with the bees 🐝 ❤️
This is a great time of year to get your gardens ready and plant the cool weather crops. A permaculture design might make a tropical garden possible there. Maybe plant a moringa tree and a mango tree, some citrus trees as the next level and the banana trees should get enough shelter from the other trees to flourish. A living mulch layer like strawberries or sweet potatoes will help maintain moisture in the soil plus providing another edible layer. The sweet potatoes provide edible leaves as well as the tubers. They are near the top of my list to buy soon.
Aw thanks on the appeal 💚
The red cosmos all self seeded and the bees are loving them, it's like a second spring in Nov here so beautiful.
We will be redoing the whole fruit forest to put swales and berms in to help with water retention and the harsh harsh hot summers🔥
Good luck with your own garden 🍀💚💯🌿🌱🌻😊
@@TheWildlandersOffGrid I'll have to look for some seeds for the red cosmos, I love them. ❤️ We have a bunch of mystery flower seeds from my friends Mom so I'll have to plant them and see what comes up! 😊
It sounds like you have a great plan for your permaculture food forest, can't wait to see it! 💚❤💚🌻🌴🌳🌾
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If off grid life came with a manual where would the learning be??? Keep pushing guys, it will be worth it. I noticed a few peeps on here mentioned worms which is a very good tip. Make a wormery with red worms on a slight tilt so when it rains you can collect the run off, black gold full of microbes to feed the soil. Good luck with the minister of foreign fiasco.
Haha, true on the manual! And yes, definitely a great idea on worms, I think there's a permaculture place not so far that sells the worms, need to investigate 💚🌻💚
@@TheWildlandersOffGrid How cool, a place not too far away that sell things for your permiculture needs. A good idea to set up a permi shop for an income.
I planted 350 onions last year. Omg, I was drowning in onions 😂
Haha that's a lot of onions!!!
Mind you we can easily use 1 a day... But then where do you store 350 onions 🤣🧅🧅🧅🧅🧅🧅
I think you are a lovely family. Your daughter is such a sweet girl.
I, being an old Portuguese retired teacher, have been watching the desertification of my dear country. You are right and it is public knowledge that the interior of my country has lost people over the years. So I am very pleased to see you and other immigrants coming here and giving life to the land. I follow several UA-camrs like you. It is entertaining too. You even introduce me to some parts of Portugal I hardly know. I am a city person, I do not deny that. I spent the first 8 years of my life on the Algarve,and then the family moved to Lisbon where I grew up. I do not live there now. I had to move to the outskirts because I could not afford a house there. When I got married the prices of the houses went up due to the Portuguese who came here from the colonies (Angola and Mozambique became independent in 1975) and now it is the golden visas. But I accept it. In a way I think God had plans for me since I came to live in a house with a garden where I can have dogs. In fact I have rescued some of them. In Portugal there many animal lovers, like me, who are fond of them and try to protect them from those who are mean to them. So, though I go to Lisbon very often I am pleased when I come back to the place where I live now. It is much quieter.
Anyway,back to you, I am glad that you have chosen to live completely off grid, in those remote areas of Portugal, I wish you all the good and that you get your well deserved visas.
Aw thanks and, we certainly love our life in Central Portugal. It's, do beautiful and the people especially the elder farmers around us, are such lovely people.
We too love animals and have rescued/rehomed 1 cat (Bella) and our Podengo (sybil) both lovely members of the family now...
And thanks to you for a lovely comment 💚
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D ont giving up just yet! I am portugues l like your chanel!
Aw thanks Dinis, we won't give up and thanks for watching 💚🌻💚
By the way, Eduardo is my husband. I am Filipa. (I think I had already told you that🤔)
Jerusalem Artichokes are nice raw with a squirt of lemon juice n pinch of salt. 😋
Sounds great! Will try that later 💚
Keeping everything crossed for your Visa, what a performance it’s been, bureaucracy at it’s worse
Aye Gail certainly been a challenge, let's hope it ends positively very soon! 💚
Have a good wood door. Do you want it?
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Do not plant white cloves of garlic. Plant the purples cloves. The white garlic is bitter and not a good all around flavour for most of the foods weather is cooking, dressing or preserves. The strong is smell but the flavour is mehhhh. Just an opinion. Ofc you must feel free to do whatever you like. Greetings!
Good luck with your appeal.
Great advice, agriloja and our local seed place only has white... Will keep looking 🧄🧄🧄🧄
Good time to plant favas,easy crop no work and nitrogen fixers
Yes, you are right, sadly too like broadbeans for me 😭 spring peas etc though 😍
@@TheWildlandersOffGrid shame. Grow them anyway and cut them back before they flower as green manure/cover crop.
Good idea! Last year we did large clovers they were excellent we then chopped and dropped 💡🌻
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Sorry to hear your having a tough time with the system!.. if you had turned up in a rubber boat with nothing! you get the world handed to you on a plate!,, keep going and good luck!..
Very true! Personally all borders shouldn't exist, nor have we/I consented to any of theses rules but we try to play along....
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I was just thinking about you guys, do either of you have a parent or grandparents born in an eu state (including Ireland), if yes it's possible you can get citizenship through them
Missys dad is Dutch, however to get Dutch citizenship we'd have to live there, plus home education is illegal there so don't think it helps, unless you know an option for her as half Dutch? And thanks for thinking of us 💚
Artichokes also known as fartichokes ..beware!
Haha, seen a few say that 😂😅🤣
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@@TheWildlandersOffGrid best way of eating is to make them as soup
I missed the reason why the Visa was declined. Anyone chime in on that?
Not enough income or the right kind of income
The half a sentence we got was unreliable subsistence. However we've had the same job for 18years with hmrc accountant verified tax returns proving reliable income.... And well above Portuguese minimum salaries.... But still was unsatisfactory 😞
You're not going anywhere. Don't think so. Just a hiccup.
Artichokes, we eat them raw with salad. Delicious.
Mm will defo try them in a salad 🥗
And true we shall prevail 🌻
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