Dear all,
I would like some advice please.
I am a British citizen and my boyfriend is a Belgian refugee. He has been granted indefinite leave to remain in August 2016, he has ID perminant residency and a Belgian travel document, he is originally of Iraqi national but doesn't have his original passport. He is claiming benefit as he has to study language before getting a job. He is currently studying language and working as a translator on a voluntary basis and gets paid around 235 euro each month on top of his income support. Since August 2016, his income is 1100 euro per month.
He applied for U.K. Visit visa twice and was refused. The first time we made mistakes on the form and it was my fault. The second application, also got refused and the reason was:
You state that you have lived at your address for 4 months, are a student and have been a translator since 03/08/2015. You further state that you receive an income of 1350 euro and spend around 900 euro each month but have not provided satisfactory documentary evidence in support of your stated income and evidence in support of your financial circumstances in Belgium. I am therefore not satisfied that your financial circumstances are as claim or of your intention to travel to the uk now. Further more I am not satisfied that you only want a short visit in U.K. and that you will leave at the end of your visit.
Evidence provided by my boyfriend:
Travel document
ID card
Letter that he has been working as a translator since stated date from the company
Income support letter, also stating the 235 euro he gets a month for translation from company
Letter from school showing term holidays, the course will end in April 2016
Flat rent contract starting August 2016 and ending July/2017
Bank statements 6 months and a certificate from bank
Employed in November 2016 for night shifts, they call him when they need him. We attached payslips of shifts he worked so far
All documents officially translated apart from bank statements.
He made deposits of 1500 euro in August and 2500 in September after the first refusal. We mentioned that, this was gift from friends and family.
From me:
Invitation letter to say that I will support him financially but I didn't write a declaration
Bank statements 6 months
Tax return
Photos of us
Tickets to when I visited him
Emails
Copy of passport
Hotel confirmation which I said I would pay for
My questions are:
With his current situation in Belgium, is he likely to get a visa approval?
What can we do differently because we want to apply again?
Any advice would be highly appreaciated
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