British husband and two children liveing in the UK, wife visits her husband and two children on a family vist visa valid for 6 months,is there any way in which she can extend her stay while in the UK,or is it a case of return to Thailand and wait six months then apply for another Family visit visa,or return and apply stright away for a settlement visa?

Return and apply for settlement .

If you require any help feel free to contact myself we have an offices in Thailand/UK.

Max 6 months on any visit, max 6 months out of any 12 in the UK as a visitor.

If she wants to live in the UK with her family then she should apply for settlement; not try and circumvent the visit rules!

Max 6 months on any visit, max 6 months out of any 12 in the UK as a visitor.

If she wants to live in the UK with her family then she should apply for settlement; not try and circumvent the visit rules!

Lets have no circumventing here,your answer and Thai visas is what I thought,however to the layman and its happend twice since we got the Family visit visa the knowalls have told me she can extend,I think they are reffering to settlement visas but they said fill in FLR [M] and by the way 7by7 thanks for you help in us reciveing the family visit visa.

The FLR would come into affect should you marry in the UK and she enters as your fiancee.

Further Leave to Remain is extending one's stay where the rules allow; and the rules don't allow an extension if one entered with a visit visa.

Sorry if I seemed a bit short before; but people who do try to bend or otherwise circumvent the rules are the reason why getting a visit visa has become so much harder over the years. I see now that you and your wife are not to be included in this group of people.

Further Leave to Remain is extending one's stay where the rules allow; and the rules don't allow an extension if one entered with a visit visa.

Sorry if I seemed a bit short before; but people who do try to bend or otherwise circumvent the rules are the reason why getting a visit visa has become so much harder over the years. I see now that you and your wife are not to be included in this group of people.

While we are still on this thread ive read the rules on FLR part 8 section 1 and it seems to suggest that a spouse who hasnt been in the country 6 months can apply,but im not sure I understand what im reading,anyway we are due to travel to England a week today and my wife has a return ticket and I gues as of now we start building a case for the settlement visa.

Is that the part which states that if the original visa was for more than 6 months then it can be extended and then (perhaps) changed ? I read something about that as well but the stipulation was that the initial visa had to be issued for longer than 6 months.

Is that the part which states that if the original visa was for more than 6 months then it can be extended and then (perhaps) changed ? I read something about that as well but the stipulation was that the initial visa had to be issued for longer than 6 months.

Ive read it a few times but I dont understand it,paragraphs 277,278,279,280.Paragraph 280 does use the word visitor,so if the other paragraphs are saying you cant stay then that would include a visitor which a family vist visa is,or so I belive.

The rules on FLR do not apply to visitors, because (except in very rare and unusual circumstances, e.g. sickness) visitors cannot extend their stay in the UK beyond the term of their visa, which is usually 6 months. This applies to all types of visitor, including family visit visa and marriage visit visa holders. (Business visitors may be able to extend the life of their visa if their business is taking longer than originally thought to conclude.)

FLR means extending one's stay when one's original leave was granted for a period in excess of 6 months; the obvious and most common exception to this being a fiance visa. Fiance visas are valid for 6 months, but they are issued for a settled purpose so they can be extended by means of FLR once the wedding has taken place. This is where they are different to marriage visit visas, which as the name implies are not issued for a settled purpose and so cannot be extended.