Family Visitor Visa for Wife [Help needed]

[baz86]

Hi All,

I am a British citizen and my wife's an Indian citizen and we got married in India 5 months ago whilst being engaged for 3 years.

I wanted to get forum members' advice and tips on how to proceed with a visitor visa application for her as me sponsoring her as my wife. My wife will be turning 20 in August (and 21 next august) and I am well aware of the current restrictions on applying for a spouse visa at this age.

But i was hoping to bring her over to the UK to visit and stay with me on a visit visa for a few months and then have her go back, and then ultimately wait one last time before we apply for spouse visa from India next year.

I don't intend to jeopordize our future spouse visa application by allowing her to overstay or anything untoward. She will be returning back to India after her visa expiry.

I was hoping for your advice on any 'bases' to cover so that we can submit a clean application so that it gets accepted. What documents would i need to prepare from my side to ensure that it goes through fine?

Any advice/hints/tips would be much appreciate by both of us.

baz

[baz86]

can anyone please help?

[batleykhan]

I would advise against doing this as there is a good possibility that your wifes visitors visa may be refused because the ECO may assume that your wife will not return back home after the 6 months visit.

If she is refused on this, she may experience problems with the spouse visa when she eventually applies for it.

Unless you can give good reasons and evidence to say she will return, then its not worth taking the risk.If on the other hand you can assure the ECO that she will return after 6 months, then go ahead and apply

[baz86]

thank you for replying!

would you be able to give certain examples that they would be looking for?

from her side, all of her jewellary and posessions will be in india as well as the rest of her family.

we wouldn't allow her to overstay or do anything untoward as we dont want to affect the future settlement visa.

any thoughts on this?

Please let me know

thanks in advance

baz

[batleykhan]

Like I said it will very difficult now that you are husband and wife.

Normal visitors show they will have to return to their job, their family and kids, their land, their business , their savings etc in order to be granted a visa.

In your case none of this will apply as in 12 months time you will be applying for her spouse visa which will mean she will be coming here to settle for good, so the above does not apply. For this reason I think the ECO will refuse her visitor visa.

I know you can give verbal or written assurances that she will return, but unfortunately the ECO doesn't see it that way.

My advise is to start looking into getting documents ready for her spouse visa from now onwards and before you know it, these 12 months would have flown by.

[Adelle]

My husband was refused a visit visa last week for exactly this reason. But is there really any harm in trying anyways? He's planning on re-applying again next week. It's only natural for a married couple to want to be together, and I can't see how how having a rejection or two this would jeopardize his chances at a spouse visa later.

[batleykhan]

My husband was refused a visit visa last week for exactly this reason. But is there really any harm in trying anyways? He's planning on re-applying again next week. It's only natural for a married couple to want to be together, and I can't see how how having a rejection or two this would jeopardize his chances at a spouse visa later.

There is no harm in reapplying as many times as you want, but once an applicant is refused by an ECO, there is a good chance that if any of the circumstances from the previous application has not changed the ECO will continue refusing .

You can challenge this by appealing if you wish.