Indo Girlfriend To Uk Visa Help

[bangkokukguy]

Hi

Problem with this forum is that there are the same posts time and time again, but we all have different problems :-). I am sorry if this is yet another post where someone says use the search engine. I have! honest! -and understand the basics of what I need to do.

However, here is my problem.

I am 30, British and have been living in Bangkok for the last 5 months. Prior to that I was in Indonesia for a year, prior to that I was in New York. I have not been home to UK for about 3 years. I do not have a bank account or any property (rented or owned in UK. - when I left for New York I sold everything I had - for various reasons I closed my bank accounts - or was asked to close them :-)

I have a good job and my company has asked me finally to return back to UK, and I am happy. Had fun here in Bangkok but longer term was not for me. While I was in Indonesia I met a girl who I fell in love with and she has been living with me here in Bangkok. I guessed that Indonesian and Thai have the same issues coming to UK, and why I posted on here.

I want her to come to the UK for a visit. She does not have the money to support herself (the 50m she would need for a tourist visa). I could give here that – but I understood she needs to show that in her account for quite a while not just a lump sum. She does not have a job either. She is 20 and just finished education. She is interested in doing possible a English course in the UK, although she is pretty good already.

I want to bring her to the UK for as a tourist to start with to see if she can deal with the cold and lack of spicy food :-) It might lead to something else later – ie we get married.

I have no bank account details in UK or property so for me to sponsor would be impossible. A relation suggested to me that they sponsor her, they are a couple with a rented house and good jobs. if there were to sponsor is there any risk to them should something go wrong ? I plan to go back to UK, and rent a new place - and within a month or so could support her. I would then bring her to UK. Just going to take a while to get sorted.

if a relation was to sponsor what would be the reason? Would it be ok to say its for someone else?

Anyone had someone else sponsor your Thai wife?

As I mentioned above she does not have a job as she has just finished college and wants to come to UK. She has no reason to return other than the fact she would have to because her visa says so! :-) ... any ideas how you can prove you will leave if you do not have a job ?

Or am I just screwed for six months until I?

Thanks

[the scouser]

I don't think your individual circumstances are much to worry about. You could easily demonstrate to the visa officer that you currently don't have roots in the UK because of your nomadic existence, brought about by your employment, but that you are now being posted back to the UK.

However, I believe that it is the very fact that you are returning to the UK on a permanent basis that could potentially be the undoing of your g/f's visit visa application. She has already followed you from Indonesia to Thailand, and it could be the visa officer's belief that she is now following you to the UK.

Unfortunately, the sincerity of your g/f's intentions does not necessarily enter in to the equation when assessing a visa application. Rather, the visa officer will look at her circumstances, and use those as a measure of whether she is likely to comply with the terms of a visa.

Does she have any incentive to return to either Thailand or Indonesia at the end of her visit? For example, this could be a combination of reasons, such as family, land ownership, starting a job, resuming her education etc.

Cheers,

Scouse.