3rd Visitor Visa For Uk

[stament]

My TG has been successful in two previous visitor visa's to the UK and today applied for a third. The Embassy said they should have processed the application by Wednesday.

I will return with feedback as to whether she was successful, and how long the application takes, etc when she hears back. Also, if the application fails, I will advise why. Hopefully this will help other forum members.

Chok-dee

[the scouser]

Providing that your circumstances have not changed, and there's a reasonable break between visits, there's no reason to think it will fail.

Scouse.

[kev0184]

Scouse, what is classed as a resonable time? I am taking my GF to the UK in may and again in AUG, her visa will then expire in oct, but i would like to take her back for new yr, would this be classed as too soon?

thx kev

Edited April 23, 2007 by kev0184

[brokenmoose]

Scouse, what is classed as a resonable time? I am taking my GF to the UK in may and again in AUG, her visa will then expire in oct, but i would like to take her back for new yr, would this be classed as too soon?

thx kev

Good luck mate

[melonf]

I applied last month for a UK visit visa for my Thai wife. Previously we had lived in the UK for a year on a settlement visa. but now live in Thailand

The successful application took 10 days including post.

I was vaguely worried that it may be a problem that neither of us is employed in Thailand (nor Uk for that matter) but we have properties in both countries and investment income for the UK

Edited April 23, 2007 by melonf

[Mahout Angrit]

Scouse, what is classed as a resonable time? I am taking my GF to the UK in may and again in AUG, her visa will then expire in oct, but i would like to take her back for new yr, would this be classed as too soon?

Assuming your g/f has a 6 month multiple entry visa and you told the embassy on your application that you intended to do 2 trips on the visa. That the total time spent in UK is only a couple of months (not 6 months) then there is no reason why you shouldn't apply for another short visit for new year and provided you kept to the promises you made when you applied for her current visa you have a good chance of being successful.

[kev0184]

Scouse, what is classed as a resonable time? I am taking my GF to the UK in may and again in AUG, her visa will then expire in oct, but i would like to take her back for new yr, would this be classed as too soon?

Assuming your g/f has a 6 month multiple entry visa and you told the embassy on your application that you intended to do 2 trips on the visa. That the total time spent in UK is only a couple of months (not 6 months) then there is no reason why you shouldn't apply for another short visit for new year and provided you kept to the promises you made when you applied for her current visa you have a good chance of being successful.

yep thats what we told them, a trip in may and another in aug, total time in UK about 4/5weeks, so i will apply again in early december and see how we get on.

thx for all the replies.

[stament]

Just a quick update re processing time. Passport was handed in on the Monday and ready for collection on Friday. So effectively it takes 5 days as wasn't advised was ready until Friday afternoon which meant Monday was the earliest available time to pick it up (unless of course she was at the visa centre on Friday afternoon!)

Still not sure whether she has got the visa yet until she picks it up on Monday afternoon. Fingers crossed.

[Mossfinn]

Fingers crossed.

Hi stament,

If you fulfilled the criteria again this time and bearing in mind you have a successful history of visa compliance, additionally they haven't asked for an interview or even a telephone call for further clarification, I would suggest that you have got it.

Good Luck

Moss

[stament]

Fingers crossed.

Hi stament,

If you fulfilled the criteria again this time and bearing in mind you have a successful history of visa compliance, additionally they haven't asked for an interview or even a telephone call for further clarification, I would suggest that you have got it.

Good Luck

Moss

Thanks Moss I hope she's successful.

[stament]

Gutted from England!!!

She went to collect her passport and the visa was refused on the grounds that I had insufficent funds to support her.

I provided bank account details of 2 banks. Nationwide which showed my withdrawals in Thailand and my Halifax one which showed my main savings. Unfortunately they just looked at the balance of my Nationwide account - £200 and said that as I only had this much money the visa application was refused.

This is a mistake by the officer as I provided the other bank stament too. My TG went back to the Visa Centre when I explained to her their error and they told her to go back to the Embassy tomorrow.

I know visitor visa's have no right of appeal and to be honest I don't want to appeal as that can be very time-consuming. I'm hoping once they see "their mistake" they will issue her with the visa.

Has anyone else been refused on grounds where the officer has clearly made a mistake? Do we have any recourse of must we submit yet another application? I'm hoping we don't have to as that will take time and cost another near THB 5000. Pus she's got the additional cost of hotel and taxi's whilst in BKK now.

Any comments would be welcome.

Scouse?

Thanks.

[Mossfinn]

Has anyone else been refused on grounds where the officer has clearly made a mistake?

Stament, I am sorry to hear this, as you say VV's have no right of appeal, however asking your partner to return sounds partially hopeful, but the visa center is not the Embassy.

PM Scouse, or I have a number for him, PM me if you want it and I will PM you back.

Good Luck

Moss

This sub-forum has been littered in the past year with some awful decisions.

Edited April 30, 2007 by Mossfinn

[Mahout Angrit]

I provided bank account details of 2 banks. Nationwide which showed my withdrawals in Thailand and my Halifax one which showed my main savings. Unfortunately they just looked at the balance of my Nationwide account - £200 and said that as I only had this much money the visa application was refused.

If you did provide evidence of enough funds to support her trip and you feel they missed the second account which would have shown sufficient funds then phone or email the Visa section at the Embassy. If the ECO's name is on the refusal notice so much the better. They may well give it another look and could decide in your favour. They have admitted mistakes in the past.

Otherwise your only recourse is to reapply and then I would leave out the account that shows just £200 to avoid the same mistake again. Good luck

[stament]

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If you did provide evidence of enough funds to support her trip and you feel they missed the second account which would have shown sufficient funds then phone or email the Visa section at the Embassy. If the ECO's name is on the refusal notice so much the better. They may well give it another look and could decide in your favour. They have admitted mistakes in the past.

Otherwise your only recourse is to reapply and then I would leave out the account that shows just £200 to avoid the same mistake again. Good luck

There is no "if" about it. There are sufficent funds FACT and the bank statement was in the documents provided.

Surely, if they have made a mistake they must correct it and not penalise people for their own mistakes? Then again we're not talking about the commercial world here are we, we're talking about civil servants.

I will complain if it is not looked at again. I understand that they probably don't have time to read every single word of every document but the documents were indexed and I did ask that I be contacted if any problem. Looks like it was given a 5min brush over and that's it.

Oh well, have to fight them on the beaches as someone famous once said.

[stament]

I provided bank account details of 2 banks. Nationwide which showed my withdrawals in Thailand and my Halifax one which showed my main savings. Unfortunately they just looked at the balance of my Nationwide account - £200 and said that as I only had this much money the visa application was refused.

If you did provide evidence of enough funds to support her trip and you feel they missed the second account which would have shown sufficient funds then phone or email the Visa section at the Embassy. If the ECO's name is on the refusal notice so much the better. They may well give it another look and could decide in your favour. They have admitted mistakes in the past.

Otherwise your only recourse is to reapply and then I would leave out the account that shows just £200 to avoid the same mistake again. Good luck

The Visa App centre staff told her to go to the Embassy tomorrow, when she showed them the "mistake", whether they will see her without an appointment is unlikely. Just have to cross fingers and toes now.

Lovely weather in England by the way - might have to have a pint in the beer garden after the day I've had.

[the scouser]

Stament,

I'm sorry I haven't so far replied, but I've been out and about today, and, in fact, I'm writing this response from a hotel in Manchester whilst waiting for a client to arrive.

On the assumption that you do have sufficient funds and evidence of these was submitted with the application, I would prepare a letter for the attention of the Entry Clearance Manager and send this to the embassy overnight by both fax and e-mail. The e-mail address is [email protected] and the fax number is available from the embassy website. Mark both urgent.

The letter should state that your girlfriend has already visited the UK twice, complied with the conditions of her stay, and, as a consequence, you had no reason to think any difficulties would arise. You should also explain that you submitted evidence of your ability to support your girlfriend, but it appears that the visa officer has failed to address the second bank statement which was submitted with the application. You should conclude by inviting the ECM, in the light of this, to overturn the decision to refuse.

All th best,

Scouse.

[stament]

Stament,

I'm sorry I haven't so far replied, but I've been out and about today, and, in fact, I'm writing this response from a hotel in Manchester whilst waiting for a client to arrive.

On the assumption that you do have sufficient funds and evidence of these was submitted with the application, I would prepare a letter for the attention of the Entry Clearance Manager and send this to the embassy overnight by both fax and e-mail. The e-mail address is [email protected] and the fax number is available from the embassy website. Mark both urgent.

The letter should state that your girlfriend has already visited the UK twice, complied with the conditions of her stay, and, as a consequence, you had no reason to think any difficulties would arise. You should also explain that you submitted evidence of your ability to support your girlfriend, but it appears that the visa officer has failed to address the second bank statement which was submitted with the application. You should conclude by inviting the ECM, in the light of this, to overturn the decision to refuse.

All th best,

Scouse.

Thanks Scouse will do

[cleverD]

Same thing happened to me on our 2nd visit visa application got refused on gronds of lack of resources and without recourse to public funds.I thought my bank statements were OK with an average balance of about £900 plus I submitted a copy of my business audited accounts to show I had access to a more than adequate funds.I also supplied copies of my Nationwide account showing withdrawals in Thailand.

The copy of my business accounts (these are not bank accounts but those prepared by my accontant) were not returned by Uk Visa so therefore I don't believe they were submitted to the Embassy.

I, like you was livid but on my return to the Uk settled down transfered £3000 from my business bank account and on my return to Thailand in march submitted another application leaving out the Nationwide Account because I thought about it and felt it might confuse and we were sucessful she arrives in the UK next week.

I am still annoyed about the refusal stamp in her passport but from what you say you showed enough funds but were those bank statements from Halifax sent to the Embassy or not.UK visa definitely sort through your paperwork and discard anything THEY feel is not relevant !!!

[stament]

Stament,

I'm sorry I haven't so far replied, but I've been out and about today, and, in fact, I'm writing this response from a hotel in Manchester whilst waiting for a client to arrive.

On the assumption that you do have sufficient funds and evidence of these was submitted with the application, I would prepare a letter for the attention of the Entry Clearance Manager and send this to the embassy overnight by both fax and e-mail. The e-mail address is [email protected] and the fax number is available from the embassy website. Mark both urgent.

The letter should state that your girlfriend has already visited the UK twice, complied with the conditions of her stay, and, as a consequence, you had no reason to think any difficulties would arise. You should also explain that you submitted evidence of your ability to support your girlfriend, but it appears that the visa officer has failed to address the second bank statement which was submitted with the application. You should conclude by inviting the ECM, in the light of this, to overturn the decision to refuse.

All th best,

Scouse.

Hi Scouse,

Took your advise and sent fax and email together with copy of bank statment and reason for refusal. Got up early to ring the embassy at 3am UK time only to be told after 45mins of trying to get through unsuccessfully, that the visa section don't take calls until the afternoon!! Went back to sleep and got up at 7am and called them persistently. Finally got through to someone - couldn't believe my luck. Was just starting to explain what happened and she ackowledged my email when I got cut off!!!

Luckily, called back immediately and got through to the same woman. Finished explaining what happened. She put me on hold to discuss my case with the ECM. After a while the phone transferred back to main switchboard (guess automatic if on hold too long). I explained to switchboard what happened and she put me back to the lady. I then spoke to the ECM and explained what had happened, etc. He told me that having reviewed the case he was happy to issue the visa provided that my girlfriend came back with the documents and her passport. There is no need for an appointment for her. She just needs to go to the Embassy in the afternoon and she will get the visa the same day.

The ECM was a good guy. I did explain to him initially that whilst I know visitor visa's have no right of appeal, I felt this was a mistake by the Embassy themselves and could they please look at it. In fairness to them, they were willing to do this and didn't ask that I appeal or make another application. I said to him that I understand that despite submitting a whole ream of documents that visa officials don't have time to read everything and thus I guess my savings bank statement was missed due to time constraints, etc. He did say that in over 99% of cases they don't overturn a refusal made for a visitors visa. I guess in this instance it's because this is a FACT and documents were included (although he himself hasn't seen the file so is going on goodwill). It may also depend on who the ECM is - this guy was very approachable and seemed a good guy so maybe I just got lucky!

I think if I apply again I will just put one bank statement for them to avoid the same mistake occurring again. I guess I was just trying to cross every t and dot every i.

Anyhow good news - looking forward to all that lovely thai food !! ;-))

Hopefully this update will be useful should a similar situtation happen to other board members.

Thanks again to all

Stam

[Mossfinn]

Fantastic!!!

Good Luck Stament to you and your family.

Moss

[cleverD]

Fantastic news,what a result I hope everything goes OK and wonder if they will remove the refusal stamp in the back of her passport.Whatever, you have achieved the reversal of a decision which can only inspire others to persevere when they truly believe the decision is flawed.

[the scouser]

Well done, Stament.

Scouse.

[stament]

Fantastic news,what a result I hope everything goes OK and wonder if they will remove the refusal stamp in the back of her passport.Whatever, you have achieved the reversal of a decision which can only inspire others to persevere when they truly believe the decision is flawed.

I'm not sure. To be honest I didn't realise they stamped refused in the passport. I'll ring them tomorrow and ask them and report back what they say.

Thanks for all the "well done" messages.

I'm off to the beer garden in my local and then going to hopefully watch Chelsea beat Liverpool.

Sorry Scouse - I take it you're a red, but of course that's a big assumption!!!

[the scouser]

There's no way to get the refusal stamp removed and your girlfriend might have been entered on the immigration warnings computer. However, it will be apparent to any immigration officer in the UK that following the refusal a visa has been issued, so there shouldn't be any difficulties.

Scouse.

PS. If I'd known you were one of "them", perhaps I would have been a bit more reticent with my advice. Anyway, time to tune in an have a few beers whilst watching the smug grin erased from moaning Mourinho's mush.

[the scouser]

Anyway, time to tune in an have a few beers whilst watching the smug grin erased from moaning Mourinho's mush.

[stament]

Anyway, time to tune in an have a few beers whilst watching the smug grin erased from moaning Mourinho's mush.

Congrats mate. You were the better team on the night. I felt we were too negative, should have had SWP or Robben on at start of 2ns half as all we did was lump long balls up to Drogba who was isolated.

I do wish Mourhino would be more humble in defeat and admit the better team on the night won.

Not going to change my life, but a win would have been nice. Now moving to Thailand in the summer, that's life-changing!!

Hope you beat United in the final....

[stament]

Quick update. She went to the British Embassy today when it opened and just needed to show her ID card. They didn't even check the bank statement she had which was included in the application, guess the one I faxed was sufficient for them to believe they'd made a mistake.

They gave her the visa there and then. She's got a refusal stamp in the back she told me but I guess as the new visa has been issued under 2 weeks later it won't go against her for future applications.

I'm just going to email the British Embassy a note of thanks.

Now I'll have to have a bit of a tidy-up before collecting her from LHR tomorrow night.

[the scouser]

Well done, stament. You could, of course, leave the tidying up for your girlfriend to do when she arrives tomorrow

Scouse.

[Mossfinn]

Well done, stament. You could, of course, leave the tidying up for your girlfriend to do when she arrives tomorrow

Scouse.

Now that sounds like a better plan

Well Done and Good luck

Moss