Fiancé and Son UK visitor visa application.

Hello all,

Hope you can help me to get started with a visa application.

I met my Thai fiancé whilst on holiday in Phuket 2 years ago. She is currently still living in Phuket and I'm in the UK. She has a 6 year old son from a previous relationship (Thai father), but has sole customer over him. (With certification to show as such)

Last year she came to the UK on a 6 month visitors visa, and stayed for 5 months before returning to Thailand.

Our long term plan is to get married and for me to adopt her son, and then for them both to come to the UK on a settlement visa. However, before we do that we would like for them both to come to the UK for a short while to make sure that her son will be happy here.

So a couple of questions:

Would the visitor visa application process for her son be much the same as the application process for her? I'm presuming they can be made at the same time at VFS Bangkok? How would we go about letting them know that we will be making two applications at the same time? (Would we just make consecutive appointment bookings?)

What kind of evidence could we supply showing that her son has reason to return to Thailand? If we were to ask his teacher to write a letter explaining that he has been enrolled into the next term of school, would this be enough?

My fiancé's son would come to UK during his school holidays (about 1 month duration). Afterwards he would return to Thailand with his mother accompanying him and stay with his aunt. We would then like my fiancé, after a week or two in Thailand, to return to the UK for a couple more months. (But still within the 6 month visitor visa period) Will she be able to re-enter on her original visitor visa, or will she have to apply for a further visitors visa?

Any advice anyone can give would be very much appreciated.

Regards,

Tony

I've created a new thread for you as your question is likely to get missed in the other topic.

Many thanks!

They make separate applications, but you can book consecutive appointments for them and use the same supporting evidence.

A letter from his school will certainly help; especially as the mother intends to be in the UK for longer than him.

UK visit visas are multi entry; unless the ECO has a good reason for limiting the number of entries. So what you say is possible. She should, of course, say that this is her intention in the application.

Perfect! Thank-you for your help!

Tony