I am surprised there is no pinned topic for this. I have tried searching and it looks like I am going to have to do alot of reading through alot of threads.

Does anyone know of a thread where the procedure is well defined? If so, can it be pinned?

This is for my long term Thai girlfriend who lives with me in Bangkok. She wants to come visit the UK to stay with me a while and see if she likes the UK. She is well educated and speaks good English. We don't have any plans to marry at present (but guess what she would love this!!!). I think this type of topic would be worth pinning?

Many thanks in advance.

Back to searching (sigh).

yes i am currently doing the same thing, everything seems to be about settlement visas and im far from settling with my gf in england! i dont want to live there myself, im pretty sure she wont want to ha ha

Here is a good thread:

Particularly the post from 7by7 entry #7 puts it in a nutshell, plus some of the other posts further down.

Anyone else found any good threads they can post in here?

Maybe we can get a load of good threads together and then pin this?

Many thanks everyone for sharing information.

The idea of a pinned topic has merit, so it can now be found here.

Hope you find it useful/helpful.

The idea of a pinned topic has merit, so it can now be found here.

Hope you find it useful/helpful.

Hi 7by7. Very much appreciate this. Thanks for the time and effort. I shall start on my sponsor letter