Awaiting Appeal Outcome

[rushdentillidie]

My wife and i are awaiting the outcome of our appeal, so far we are 7 weeks into the so called 16 weeks. To be honest I am hoping that the visa can be overturned in the appeal at the embassy in Bangkok. But should this not be the case then we have been preparing a new case so that we can re-apply for the visa rather than having to wait the full 9 moths for the appeal.

Although i the mean time I would like my wife to visit me in the UK, as in September my sister is getting married and I would like her to be able to come to UK to see this and just to get used to the UK.

So to my question, is there any visa that we can apply for while in the appeal process, so that me wife would be able to come to the UK for a short time? Or if not would dropping the appeal and applying for a tourist visa work. I know that we can reapply for a settlement visa, but this can take up to 12 weeks so a shorter processing visa would be ideal. Because at the moment I am unable to be with my wife in the UK which kind of defeats the object of been married, although we can meet in Thailand which we have done. Work commitments and money do not allow me to spend much time in Thailand, only 2-3 weeks at a time.

Any ideas would be a great help.

Regards

[7by7]

The answer is the same as when you last asked this question in June here.

I can't put it better than Scouse did in this post

The reality is that the visa officer, in refusing your wife's settlement application, has reason to believe that certain facts were witheld, the inference being that no credibility can then be attached to anything else that was said. He's not being judgmental, but simply working off the information before him...............

Should your wife make a visit visa application, it is almost certain to be refused..............

To which I would add that a new settlement application, or any other type of UK visa, will also probably be refused as at present she has (or more accurately, you have) no credibility because of the withheld information.

I'm afraid the only counsel I can offer is patience and hope that when it does come before a hearing (it will, this is not going to be overturned in post) the tribunal accepts your explanation of why a material fact was missing from the application.