PLEASE PLEASE HELP!

peterc
New Member



Joined: 06 Aug 2008
Posts: 1
Location: england

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:42 pm

 

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Hi everybody,
Hopefully someone out there can help/offer us advice.
Here goes . I (Pete) currently live in the U.K. and I recently got engaged to my fiance (Nicole). Nicole is Canadian and has been travelling around the U.K. for the past few years. Unfortunately, her Dad was taken ill recently and she had to fly back to Vancouver.
Now we have looked at the 'Fiance Visa' as Nicole's work visa expired a while ago as the best option for her to return to England so we can marry . but after examining the paperwork she has to give dates and addresses of where she has been over the last few years. As she stayed in the U.K. after her work visa expired, she is worried that this could affect her application . it also says that any false information could result in her being banned from visiting the U.K. for 10 years.
We are madly in love and she has only been gone 1 week and its killing us both.

Does anybody have any suggestions? Would it be worth our while paying an immigration lawyer a load of money to sort it out for us?
I have a well paid job and my own house/car etc . so I don't want to have to sell up (the house prices are dropping and I wouldn't make any money on my house) or quit my job.
If you have any ideas of what we can do please reply or send me a p.m.

Thanks .Pete.

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iancanton
CanuckAbroad Regular



Joined: 11 Aug 2008
Posts: 53
Location: kent

Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:15 pm

 

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for a fianceé visa, u need to show that the relationship is genuine and that you intend to marry within the six-month life of the visa, as well as prove that u can support her without recourse to state funds.

if the whole point of overstaying her visa was because she was staying with u (and u can prove it), then i don't see how the authorities can argue that the relationship is not genuine. if u intend to stay in the uk together, then u'll have no alternative but to tell the truth.

u might find that talking to an immigration lawyer will be of reassurance, even if it happens not to be necessary.

incidentally, my canadian fiancée and i are currently applying for a fiancée visa (without instructing a lawyer), despite regina having been refused entry to the uk last year because it was deemed that she had insufficient reason to return to canada. we are naturally somewhat concerned as to the outcome, even though i expect the visa to be granted, and are trying to gather as much supporting evidence as possible to cover every angle.

ian.

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