Illegal In The Uk

[BKK2509]

My Thai friend came to London as a tourist in 1994 and overstayed. She bought a fake passport in London and got caught and was in jail for one month. She was ordered to leave the UK in 1998 but she stayed til 2004. She came back to the UK again in 2005 with a different name as a tourist and got married to a Spanish man and now they are divorced. She sent her passport to the Home Office asking for leave to remain but she was told that she is likely to be deported and she has to report to the UKBA every month. UKBA said she came over here by deception (changed her name and her immigration's history is not good.

She has a son/relatives who are in the UK to support and look after her. She has a solicitor to deal with her case but I'm not convinced that her case will be ok.

Can anyone advise me what to do next pls. Sorry my English is limited. I'm Thai myself.

[retiredusn]

Sorry but I feel the same way as the law, she has lied cheated other people out of a chance she should be deported................

[mallyrd]

Sorry but I feel the same way as the law, she has lied cheated other people out of a chance she should be deported................

Wholeheartedly agree.

[kevozman1]

^I would expect more responses like this. There are too many people in London who

overstay well beyond their visa permits. A trick usually done by Africans, some who

overstay 10 years or more and then are allowed to stay permanetly. If your friend's child

is British born then she will be allowed to stay, if not then I feel deportation back to

Thailand for both Mother and Child should happen.

[Eff1n2ret]

"Can anyone advise me what to do next pls", asks the OP.

There isn't anything you can do, except pay the lawyer's bills. It appears to be a difficult case, nothing will happen very quickly, and if the lady has legal advice, all you can do is follow it and hope for the best. If the Spanish ex-husband will help, it should assist her case.

[BWPattaya]

If you were in Bangkok and a UK citizen lied, used a false passport, overstayed twice you would be crying out for him/her to be locked up and deported. Why expect us to offer you advice to help a criminal. Spend, waste, your money on a UK lawyer.

If you really want to help her buy her an airline ticket home. One way.

Or, is this a wind up?

[bifftastic]

I don't think the fact that she has relatives who will look after her will have any bearing on the case.

The UKBA will only focus on the fact that she illegally overstayed, twice, used deception to re-enter a third time and will likely deport her and slap a 10 year ban on further applications for visas. She's lucky she's not in a detention centre, given her history of overstaying.

The solicitor will just represent her but don't expect him/her to be able to do anything about the laws she's broken and don't give them too much money, if you do, I think you will have wasted it.

This is why it's so hard for people to get visas to visit the UK, too many people seem to think they can ignore the law and get permanent residency because they've got family here.

In my opinion your friend, and people like her, have made it harder for other Thai people who genuinely want to visit the UK as tourists, and then go back home again, to get fair treatment when they apply for their visas.

[bifftastic]

"Can anyone advise me what to do next pls", asks the OP.

There isn't anything you can do, except pay the lawyer's bills. It appears to be a difficult case, nothing will happen very quickly, and if the lady has legal advice, all you can do is follow it and hope for the best. If the Spanish ex-husband will help, it should assist her case.

I honestly can't see how the involvement of the Spanish ex-husband will help at all. She re-entered illegally after overstaying twice, what's he going to say that will help?

Edited August 23, 2010 by bifftastic

[sarahsbloke]

Get married to a British national, then claim domestic violence.

Foreign ladies claiming domestic violence against British husbands, get to stay no matter what they did before.

Edited August 23, 2010 by sarahsbloke

[moe666]

She maybe better off to leave of her free will rather than being deported and then use the son as a reason to come back.

[ThaiVisaExpress]

I would contact Tony at Orchid of Siam he is a level 3 adviser and has an office in the UK.

[Thongkorn]

Get married to a British national, then claim domestic violence.

Foreign ladies claiming domestic violence against British husbands, get to stay no matter what they did before.

Not any more my friend , they have to have prof and convictions against whoever abused them , and even then, they will not be guaranteed to stay in the UK , things are changing for the better, and they are now chasing down more and more over stayers.

[BKK2509]

I would contact Tony at Orchid of Siam he is a level 3 adviser and has an office in the UK.

Thank you. I will tell her to contact Tony. I advised her to go back long time ago but she still wants to stay and nothing I can do to persuade her. She can't work but she does charity work by helping elderly people without pay. When she went back to Thailand, she stayed with her son and they hate each other and her son beat her up too. What a life!

[BKK2509]

Thank you everyone for your replies.