Will setting your marrige date around the date for the settlement visa interview have any effect with regard to the Embassy's attitude towards your application? ie, get married a week before your G/f's settlement visa interview.

As long as you are married before the interview and so can produce the marriage certificate, that's ok.

Remember, it's the Ampur marriage that's the legal one. The 'village' ceremony is not a legal marriage in Thailand and so is not recognised as such by the UK.

Will setting your marrige date around the date for the settlement visa interview have any effect with regard to the Embassy's attitude towards your application? ie, get married a week before your G/f's settlement visa interview.

I don't know about the UK, but marriage itself is of no importance at all for the Embassy's attitude or interview as far as The Netherlands is concerned. We have an extremely strict Visa 'attitude' and they even become very suspicious because of the Law against 'Fake-Marriages' (if you marry just before the interview).

I'm sorry to tell you this but hope the rules in the UK are a little more soft than in our country

good luck to you

LaoPo

I am just a bit worried they may look upon it as getting married just for the visa. I hope this is not the case.

I will have known my G/f for nearly 1 and a half years by the time we are married, this should show we are serious I would think?

It is difficult for us to do it any other way, we could of got married December just gone, but then we would be separated again. Once we are married I want us to be together, thus our approach to the situation.

I am just a bit worried they may look upon it as getting married just for the visa. I hope this is not the case.

I will have known my G/f for nearly 1 and a half years by the time we are married, this should show we are serious I would think?

It is difficult for us to do it any other way, we could of got married December just gone, but then we would be separated again. Once we are married I want us to be together, thus our approach to the situation.

Understood. Try to produce as much 'evidence' as possible in the form of family photos, maybe letters or emails, tickets etc. and take it with you during the interview. I will most certainly help.

Good luck

LaoPo

Understood. Try to produce as much 'evidence' as possible in the form of family photos, maybe letters or emails, tickets etc. and take it with you during the interview. I will most certainly help.

Good luck

LaoPo

Thanks. Yeah we have loads of photos (about 350!!) from all over the place as well, BKK, Koh Chang, G/f's hometown with all the family. G/f has kept train receipts, hotel receipts, even receipts from when we took the whole family to an old temple up north for the day.

I am just a bit worried they may look upon it as getting married just for the visa. I hope this is not the case.

If you had only known her for a brief time, then the ECO may suspect this. However, you have known each other for 18 months, and can prove it, so it will not be a problem.

Bearing in mind the long wait for an interview, what you may like to consider is getting the application into the embassy now, with a covering letter explaining that you are getting married on (date) and asking for an interview as soon as possible after this date. Remember, though, that her TB certificate must accompany the application!

I am just a bit worried they may look upon it as getting married just for the visa. I hope this is not the case.

If you had only known her for a brief time, then the ECO may suspect this. However, you have known each other for 18 months, and can prove it, so it will not be a problem.

Bearing in mind the long wait for an interview, what you may like to consider is getting the application into the embassy now, with a covering letter explaining that you are getting married on (date) and asking for an interview as soon as possible after this date. Remember, though, that her TB certificate must accompany the application!

Yes that is what we are planning to do. I have just started the process of getting everything ready for applying around Feb or March, then with the waiting times, a June wedding should coincide with the interview, hopefully.