First of all I want to say what a great forum this is, the advice that I have read has been a great help over the last 3 months or so.

I am in the final stages of completing a settlement visa application for my Cambodian wife and step daughter to join me in the UK, and before completing the online application and sending the documents to my wife I need some advice about a previous visa application we made.

After we married last year my wife and I intended to travel to the UK on a visit visa and we completed an online application for a visitor visa(as required in Cambodia). However due to my wife falling pregnant and not wanting my step daughter to be apart from her mum we decided not to submit the application at the embassy, and instead wait and apply for a settlement visa.

I am now wondering whether this will constitute a visa refusal because on the email I was sent from visa4uk it stated that 'Failure to submit documents to the visa issuing office will result in a delay and/or lead to the refusal of your application:'

Should I mention this on the settlement visa application when completing question 5.2 'Have you ever been refused a visa for any country, including the UK?'

Thanks

After we married last year my wife and I intended to travel to the UK on a visit visa and we completed an online application for a visitor visa(as required in Cambodia). However due to my wife falling pregnant and not wanting my step daughter to be apart from her mum we decided not to submit the application at the embassy, and instead wait and apply for a settlement visa.

I am now wondering whether this will constitute a visa refusal because on the email I was sent from visa4uk it stated that 'Failure to submit documents to the visa issuing office will result in a delay and/or lead to the refusal of your application:'

Should I mention this on the settlement visa application when completing question 5.2 'Have you ever been refused a visa for any country, including the UK?'

Thanks

Since you did not actually apply (and pay your visa fee) it can not be refused.

So No you should not mention it.

Edited April 2, 200818 yr by sometimewoodworker

I would suggest that as your wife did not actually sign the application form it can't constitute a legal application, the corollary being that it can't have been refused. I believe that if the applicant fails to turn up for the appointment to submit the form proper, no action is taken, but if it worries you, you can explain the circumstances in your covering letter.

Scouse.