What official/legal documentation do you have that you have joint custody? Everything with the ex from day one has been amicable. There are no legal agreements. I pay child maintenance on mutual agreement. I take him on UK holidays, city days out, pick up from school a few occasions, took him to ...

..However, the big question is can you be in UK without job for at least a year while ur application is under consideration or may be lucky before then depend on the merit of your application. ... This is also contradictory from what I have read. According to gov.uk website, you cannot apply for ...

You need to get yourself over to the UK first and start to make physical impact on your son life, then you can workout the way to start getting the papers needed. It's not hard... This is kind of what I was getting at. The entire point of filing the Family visa is so that I CAN do these things. I ...

First, thanks for your replies and candid responses. I don't know how the UKVO would honestly view my case. I have been a part of his life, as in we Skype frequently and I visit via tourist visa as often as possible. (Just last week in fact). I have no work rights in the UK, so the fact I don't ...

Far too early to marry current girlfriend. I have no idea how else to answer the presumption about using the Family Visa as a means to be with current UK girlfriend. The truth of the matter is my work is highly technical and specialized for the US gov. I've worked abroad for the last 18 years to ...

This might be a better sub-forum for this question that I posted under the General section. I am an American father of an 8 year old British Child. He lives with his mother in London (we were never married and are on good terms). I am looking for a UK visa as a parent, but the UK gov website is ...