Uk Visa For Wife

[Big A]

My wife and I have been back to the UK twice in the last 6 years with no visa problems at all (not even an interview in BKK). She also received a visitor visa for Australia a few years back as well as entries into HK and Singapore, so I presume that will hold her in good stead with our next UK visa application this June (number 3).

However, since our last trip, I have become unemployed and my wife has never worked. Before, we have included all relevant documentation to support her application, namely

*joint bank books in Thailand

*house registration papers

*marriage certificate

*Thai ID card

*car registration papers

*travel plans

*photocopy of my UK passport

*letters of invitation to UK from my mother

*photo of UK accommodation (my mum's house)

*letter from my boss stating I will return to work in Thailand

*copy of my work permit

As I am not working now, I can't provide the last 2 items, and although I can show some assets in Thailand (car & house), I cannot show employment to come back to.

Has anyone been successful with regards to securing a visa for their wife or g/f without showing employment here?

Any info appreciated. Thanks.

Big A

[the scouser]

Your wife's immigration history by itself should stand her in good stead, but as a fail-safe provide evidence of your assets and, presumably, you have savings/investments as you must be living on something, so supply details of those too.

If you were born in Belfast, why don't you get yourself an Irish passport and your wife can then apply for a family permit free of charge?

Scouse.

[Big A]

If you were born in Belfast, why don't you get yourself an Irish passport and your wife can then apply for a family permit free of charge?

Scouse.

Thanks for the reply, Scouser.

I already have an Irish passport but am NOT eligible for an EEA Family Permit. This was confirmed by the UKVAC at Rajadamri (the new UK visa application place). They said I had to be working in the UK or Europe to be eligible to bring my wife over. I also had to have been born in the Republic of Ireland (not the north) also to qualify.

To answer your other query, I am living on my savings and will submit my bank books.

Thanx for your help.

Big A

[the scouser]

I already have an Irish passport but am NOT eligible for an EEA Family Permit. This was confirmed by the UKVAC at Rajadamri (the new UK visa application place). They said I had to be working in the UK or Europe to be eligible to bring my wife over. I also had to have been born in the Republic of Ireland (not the north) also to qualify.

Big A,

That's utter codswallop. Not only are the visa application centre staff unqualified to give immigration advice, but the information they have given you is incorrect. How on earth they can tell you that you are not an Irish citizen when you have an Irish passport, beggars belief.

As an Irish citizen you are free to exercise certain rights in the UK and these rights are automatically conferred upon your spouse irrespective of her nationality.

You do not have to be working in the UK. As a citizen of an EEA country, you have a right to admission to the UK for three months without having to exercise a treaty right. Again this right to admission is extended to your wife.

If you wish to make a family permit application, then simply insist to the visa application staff that you want the papers to go forward to the embassy as they are. If they decline to accept the application, then make it clear that you perceive the British embassy to have vicarious liability for the vac's actions and that you will be pursuing legal action against the UK government for preventing you from exercising your European rights as an irish citizen.

Scouse.

[lemsip]

UKVAC at Rajadamri also told me I had to be working in the UK or Europe to be eligible to bring my wife over,and thats with an Irish {southern}Pastport,they were very adamant about it.pxxxx me right off.

[Mossfinn]

This was confirmed by the UKVAC at Rajadamri

[ can tell you that you are not an Irish citizen when you have an Irish passport, beggars belief.

UKVAC at Rajadamri also told me I had to be working in the UK or Europe to be eligible to bring my wife over,and thats with an Irish {southern}Pastport,they were very adamant about it.pxxxx me right off.

Unbelievable!!

Moss

[the scouser]

In stating that they are acting in direct contravention of the European directive. In so doing, they have prevented you from exercising your right to freedom of movement and you should make a formal complaint to the European Commission.

Scouse.