Thank you for the info Vinni, I had already read those documents thats why i knew immediately when i saw the passport that the endorsement wasnt correct. They have now told us to go to the High Comm in Colombo and they will issue a letter for us stating that they have given the wrong visa. Lets see ...

Hi Just wondering if anyone has ever heard of this or experienced a similar situation?? Applied for unmarried partners visa in Colombo Sri Lanka, visa got rejected and then we appealed and the decision was overturned as I urgently need to be in UK for medical treatment. We received my partners ...

Dear FII Still waiting for passport to be returned as there is a systems update going on at the BHC but hopefully we should have it soon! My Advise would be to wait the 2 full years of living together before applying for this visa. I honestly believe that is one factor that the officer will be ...

Success at last!! Got a call this morning to submit passport!! This is after filing the appeal, getting wrong information from Colombo BHC, documents sent straight to Chennai when they originally told us they would look at them in Colombo. I was lucky enough to speak to a very helpful officer in ...

Dear Jine Can you please give an update as to your case in Sri Lanka. We are currently facing a similar situation lodging an appeal from sri lanka and you seem to be the only other person in this forum that has lodged an appeal from sri lanka. Please have a look at my post for the details of our ...

Appeal papers were given this morning as well as all the extra evidence to support it. We wrote a 5 page letter stating the grounds of the appeal and made the point again that i need to be in UK in December for medical treatment and surgery even though the ECO never even looked at that in the ...

Thats what my concern was too, thats why i believe its best to appeal. The more i read the officers statements the more i feel like he was just trying to find something in order to refuse it. Theres no mention of any concern about finances, accomodation or if we can support each so he went off on ...

Unfortunately yes all visas have to be sent to Chennai and from what i saw on the processing times board yesterday it takes at least 30 working days for the visit visa to process. It just makes me angry that no one understands what we have to go through to get these stuff here. Also for us we never ...

Hi there, Yes I've been looking into it and that sentence seems to mean what you said. Unfortunately he had never applied for a visa before so there wouldnt be anything on the system. About the family visit visa, im looking into it but there was a better chance to get an internal tranfer with his ...

Hi FII I actually read the post on your situation before and it looked quite similar. To be very honest i dont have an answer to your question about the living together dates as there is no definite thing. Nobody here could really give us any advise as to that and it all seems to be up to the ...

Hi all, If anyone remembers the below topic here is the somewhat sad update. I appreciate the fact that we have been advised that we were taking a great risk in applying for this visa considering the history below but we really did not have any other choice. We applied in Colombo on 08/09/09, the ...

Thanks vinny....this seems like a black hole getting deeper and deeper...While in the UK we would have no issue having these documents, living in sri lanka where laws and culture is totally different we wouldnt be able to get them even if we wanted to....i have a feeling this will be 600 pounds down ...

Well the problem is he actually works for his bank HSBC and he never gets any statements at home as he can check that from work. The only thing we managed to get is a water bill that comes directly from our apartment building which has the landlords name on it but on the receipt we have both our ...

Any other advise from anyone please??? Other people that have had the same problem with supportive documents and how you dealt with it? what was the outcome?

Hi there thank you for the reply. Understand we dont have a lot of evidence, hence we are both very scared at the moment. To be honest at the moment it looks like the best thing to do is to write a long letter explaining the situation and hope for the best. Getting married is our plan but we thought ...

Hi Just wondered if any of the members out there can shed some light on some questions. I am a British Citizen and have lived in Sri Lanka for the past 4 years (30 years old). I met my partner in 2006 and we have been living together since May 2007. He is Sri Lankan, full time employed (22 years old ...