I've read this article a number of times and, apart from making my blood boil about the unfairness of UK Immigration law, I can't really get my head round the circumstances and why the appropriate visas can't be obtained.  It doesn't look the financial requirements are the problem.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/04/us-surgeon-may-be-forced-to-quit-uk-because-of-visa-nightmare?

 

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Pathetic. What a lot of jobsworths they employ at the home office. They might have done better saying they were fleeing persecution and claiming asylum seeker status.

I do agree that this case makes a mockery of the whole system, I wouldn't agree that it's anything to do with the so called "jobsworths" employed at the Home Office, it's Ministers that set the policy, Home Office staff simply implement those policies.

 

Don't let's go down the asylum route, total nonsense.

What I don't understand is why the sons are not allowed to join their parents if the American husband has the required visa. Surely adopted children have the same rights as natural children?   I'm assuming the kids can't get British passports as their mother is only British by Descent; but if the non-British parent is in the UK legally and working, surely his and his British wife's children should be able to live with them.

 

It just seems crazy - unless I'm missing something.

They're running this story on the Victoria Derbyshire programme on the BBC this morning, UK time.

Sadly this inflexibility seems ingrained in the Home Office.

I am not sure if it is a result of insufficient numbers of senior staff able to take a broader picture and introduce a degree of common sense. 

I am another one trying to make sense of the difference between a biological child and an adopted one. Simply replace a birth certificate with an adoption certificate and the system works fine, without this lousy behaviour.

A few years back but a friend of my wife (Thai but Swiss resident) applied for an EEA family permit but could not find the right box on-line. Despite it being noted throughout that this was an EEA family permit application, this was ignored. Result was a rejection on the grounds that she had insufficient funds for the trip despite husband being a millionaire nine times over! Oddly they rejected a further application on the right form despite clear entitlement.

Someone needs to be able to look at these few applications and sort out the problems rather than just a blanket rejection. Applicants are paying for a service that just seems to let people down. Not everyone is an expert in immigration rules and there should be a level of professionalism within the Home Office to avoid this nonsense.