extending visit 2 weeks beyond 6 months

My daughter applied for a UK ancestry visa, and a lot of bother later, ten days before her flight, they asked for the passport and birth certificates, due a month before the email they sent. She didn't send it in as she thought she could do it in England to find out later she can't. She was going to only stay four months, but now she is thinking of staying longer, and would be two weeks after her six months there on an ordinary passport. Has she lost the visa application fee, can she somehow stay and extra two weeks, or can she somehow manage the rest of the application without coming back to Canada, which is a huge expense and then she wouldn't be able to afford staying there? Help would be appreciated. Asking the visa people is crazy, phone conversations cost the earth, and emails cannot be answered, hence we couldn't find out the real date due, or if she would get her passport and visa returned in time. Thanks for any help A.

Is your daughter currently in the UK as a visitor? If yes, she'll have to go back to Canada before the 6 months allowed otherwise she'll be considered as an overstayer and any subsequent application may be refused including UK Ancestry. She can't manage the rest of her application from abroad if she applied from Canada. Also, if she hasn't sent her passport with the requested documentation within the specified timeframe, her application has probably been cancelled already and she may have to apply again. You should check with your local application centre to make sure the application is still valid and please ensure to tell her to come back before the expiration of her visitor status.

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Thanks for your help. Another question. Still trying to make this work for her. As she is planning to go to Europe for about three weeks in the middle of her six months in England, will that allow her that extra few weeks? She wouldn't be in England beyond the six months total then. But I know they don't stamp the passport when she goes to Europe. Would plane ticket stubs prove enough that she wasn't actually in England during that time? So it would end up being just under 6 months total in England, and 3 weeks in Europe. Does that work? Or am I grasping at straws? Thank you again.

Read the following UKBA link sections 41 & 44 (ii) to see if this answers it for you

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/polic ... les/part2/

That said, sometimes at the airport entry point, the immigration/passport control officer may simply restamp another six months in that passport, or consider the first six month stamp as it being valid till the final date (time period) in which it was issued & valid till.

In other words ... six months max from the date of the issuance of the initial entry (stamp in passport) in the first place, even though someone may have left for a brief period to visit somewhere else in the EU ( & had not returned back to Canada) then, re-entered the UK

For example, a commonwealth citizen entering as a general visitor, stays 4 months then goes off to somewhere else for a month then returns to the UK.

Its possible (but not always the case) to get re-stamped another 6-months or for an a shorter duration up to and including at first 6 months or a wee bit longer.

Let us know what happens with the exit & re-entry issue & what she decides to do