"It is not accepted that your relationship with your partner is genuine and subsisting. Assessing ECOs are entitled to be satisfied that you are, and have been, in a genuine relationship with your sponsor before issuing you with a UK visa. You have indicated on the visa application that you personally met your sponsor on 17th January 2016 having first met online in October 2015. You submitted this application on 17th April, just three months after meeting your sponsor. As evidence of your relationship you have submitted some photos taken during your time together and printouts of some facebook conversations. It is reasonable to expect that in a genuine subsisting, supportive and affectionate relationships, there would be evidence of the development of the relationship, signs of companionship, emotional support, affection and an abiding -interest in each other's welfare and well-being over a period leading to engagement and marriage. This has not been adequately demonstrated with the evidence submitted and the haste in which you wish to be married raises concerns as to the genuineness and sustainability of the relationship and your motives. I am aware that the onus is upon you to satisfy me that you have met the Immigration Rules and it is your intentions and not those of your sponsor that are paramount in the decision making process. I have studied your application in detail and with due care, and from the evidence and statements you have made to me, I am not satisfied that there is a continuing and meaningful 'relationship with your sponsor and that any marriage will not be a marriage of convenience. I therefore am not satisfied-your relationship with your sponsor is genuine and ·subsisting or that you intend to live together permanently in the UK. I therefore refuse your application under paragraph EC-P.1.1 (d) of Appendix FM of the Immigration Rules. (E-ECP.2.6 & 2.10)
You state that you intend to get married on the 9th September 2016, yet you have provided no
evidence of this. I am not satisfied that you are seeking entry to the UK to enable your
marriage/civil partnership· to take place. I therefore refuse your· application under paragraph ·
EC-P:1.1{d) of Appendix FM bf the immigration Rules. (E-ECP.2.
"Immigration rules we haven't met:
E-ECP.2.6. The relationship between the applicant and their partner must be genuine and subsisting.
E-ECP.2.8. If the applicant is a fiancé(e) or proposed civil partner, they must be seeking entry to the UK to enable their marriage or civil partnership to take place.
E-ECP.2.10. The applicant and partner must intend to live together permanently in the UK.
His decision, seemed to us that the ECO did not thoroughly checked our documents. We have submitted the marriage booking/acknowledgement issued by the city council with the date, time and location of our marriage, our letters discussing our relationship, intentions and plans, approx 5000 pages of chat logs since day 1, our photos together and evidences of our holidays together (flights, hotel bookings, receipts), evidences of his expenses for me while I am in the Philippines.
We are given the right to appeal against the decision to the tribunal, however, my fiance and I are both confused if this allows us for a human rights claim (Article 8- The Right to Respect Private and Family Life), knowing he is a British citizen and settled in UK whilst I am a Filipino and still living in Philippines.
