Bangkok UK visas refused. Appeal stats

[Thai Visa Express]

For the first time in years, the number of appeals allowed is greater than the number of appeals dismissed for Bangkok visa refusals. These are the figures up to the end of 2012 :

Received Allowed Dismissed

2008 564 149 168

2009 572 145 174

2010 695 142 166

2011 824 151 161

2012 499 138 135

[stament]

W

[stament]

Why don't the allowed and dismissed add up to the total received? Does this mean the difference is because no decision has yet been made? Kind of worrying if so as some date back to 2008!

[Thai Visa Express]

Some will have been withdrawn. Some will have had the refusal decision overturned at the ECM review, so the appeal was never heard. Some, as you say, will have been received in a different year.

Tony M

[Arkady]

Amazing how they waste so much taxpayers' money coming up with ill considered decisions mainly regarding wives of UK citizens. The UKBA's response to so many poor decisions being reversed on appeal was to deny the right to appeal to those applying for family visit visas. It didn't seem to occur to them to get rid of the useless ECO's with poor records of getting their decisions overturned or just let UK citizens decide for themselves whether they want to take the risk of marrying a bar girl or barboy and bringing him or her to the UK without the nanny state's intervention. The latter approach would save the expat costs of the useless ECOs in Thailand and the legal costs of fighting appeals. This would probably offset any costs to the taxpayer caused by UK citizens bringing unsuitable Thai spouses into the UK who whatever they do are unlikely to be terrorists. Save the more detailed scrutiny for countries that have a track record of spawning terrorists.