US Boyfriend visiting UK for 3 Months, any advice?

[themadster9000]

Apologies if I'm posting this in the wrong place, I've only just made an account here so I'm unfamiliar with the forum.

Anyway, as for my question, my US boyfriend (20) will be visiting me (21, in the UK) for 3 months on Friday. He visited for 3 weeks in September 2016 and I visited him for 3 months in America from February to the end of April this year. We weren't so prepared for these trips, so naturally we were questioned at the border but everything turned out luckily great in the end. However, due to these experiences, I am very nervous about his trip this time round. I have no reason to be nervous really, but I have a lot of anxiety and just want to be sure that it will be okay.

The main worry is the financial side of things. He has around £1000 saved up in cash from a job he just finished. He got this job just to save up what he could for the trip. He's not a student and lives with family. However, I am planning on writing a letter and including my bank statement, to show that I will support him too. I'm unemployed but I have a lot of inheritance money, and it is more than enough to support him. Will this be okay? But, this also means that he doesn't have much to show for ties to his home country. He obviously does plan on going back home again but I'm not sure how to prove this apart from proof of the return ticket. Will this be enough?

He plans to tell the staff that he is here to visit me (his girlfriend) and my family, and for sightseeing. We also have other plans such as going to a festival, which he will have proof of with tickets. I will become a student in September, and would love his support through the beginning terms. Is this also okay? We do not plan whatsoever on lying to them.
He will be living with me and my Dad in my hometown for the first week, and for the rest of the trip he will be living with me in my flat in the town I will be studying in. He will note down both addresses, and mine and my Dads phone numbers.

We do have plans for marrying in the future, and applying for settlement visas etc. but only legally! And we definitely wont marry on this trip. I just hope they believe us.

So yeah, apologies for the long message but I really need to calm down before Friday and make sure we can both answer questions confidently. Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you so much!!

[Robstin2014]

Hi, I'm a British citizen and my girlfriend is an American Citizen. We are now living in the UK together but before that for the past 3 years we have been visiting each other for long period of time in the UK and the US for periods of 2 or 3 months at a time.

We have both wasted a lot of time worrying about what might happen when we are going through immigration, so I definitely understand where you are coming from.

What I found is that immigration in any country which fears that you may be trying to enter and overstay will ask you questions based on your life back in your home country. They will ask questions about your studies, employment, family and any other commitments over there. If your boyfriend can prove to the person behind the immigration desk that he has something to go back to the US for, the UK immigration will have no problem at all with letting him in.

In the past to put our worries at rest we have brought a small folder in our hand luggage's when either of us travelled to see each other and included information such as pictures of us together in the US or the UK before when we have visited, proof of a return ticket (so that they can see that we have pre-paid for our flights back to our home countries), bank statements to prove funds, any contracts of employment, educational information such as exam dates or proof of enrollment.

I understand not all of the evidence that I have listed can be used in your circumstances, however I hope this helps you.

Any other questions I'll do my best to help.

[themadster9000]

Hi, I'm a British citizen and my girlfriend is an American Citizen. We are now living in the UK together but before that for the past 3 years we have been visiting each other for long period of time in the UK and the US for periods of 2 or 3 months at a time.

We have both wasted a lot of time worrying about what might happen when we are going through immigration, so I definitely understand where you are coming from.

What I found is that immigration in any country which fears that you may be trying to enter and overstay will ask you questions based on your life back in your home country. They will ask questions about your studies, employment, family and any other commitments over there. If your boyfriend can prove to the person behind the immigration desk that he has something to go back to the US for, the UK immigration will have no problem at all with letting him in.

In the past to put our worries at rest we have brought a small folder in our hand luggage's when either of us travelled to see each other and included information such as pictures of us together in the US or the UK before when we have visited, proof of a return ticket (so that they can see that we have pre-paid for our flights back to our home countries), bank statements to prove funds, any contracts of employment, educational information such as exam dates or proof of enrollment.

I understand not all of the evidence that I have listed can be used in your circumstances, however I hope this helps you.

Any other questions I'll do my best to help.

Thank you very much for your help, it was very useful and I feel better about a lot of aspects of this trip.

However, I would like to ask for more help, if that's okay. My boyfriend really doesn't have anything to prove that he has ties to his home country. He doesn't have contracts of employment (he's unemployed now), or any educational information as he's not a student. He lives with his family but not looking after any of them.
The best we can do is show proof of the return.
We could possibly explain that he's planning on working again when he gets home to save up money for applying for a fiance visa in the future. As we plan to do this legally.

What do you think?

[Robstin2014]

Any proof to at least show how he got the funds to buy the plane ticket and any spending money he's bringing with him would be very useful if he was questioned about his ties in the US.

Its good that the both of you are looking into your options in terms of visas now; as any knowledge towards the visas and immigration can help when entering the country.

If your boyfriend was to explain that he is looking into applying down the spouse visa route I the future it will help immigration to understand that he has a good understanding of the rules and the work that is needed to be done so that he can legally reside in the UK.

In the past my girlfriend has explained this and the UKBA were compliant with her and got to understand her situation better.

I hope this goes well for you.

[themadster9000]

Any proof to at least show how he got the funds to buy the plane ticket and any spending money he's bringing with him would be very useful if he was questioned about his ties in the US.

Its good that the both of you are looking into your options in terms of visas now; as any knowledge towards the visas and immigration can help when entering the country.

If your boyfriend was to explain that he is looking into applying down the spouse visa route I the future it will help immigration to understand that he has a good understanding of the rules and the work that is needed to be done so that he can legally reside in the UK.

In the past my girlfriend has explained this and the UKBA were compliant with her and got to understand her situation better.

I hope this goes well for you.

Thank you!! This is very helpful. We will try our best
I really appreciate your help.

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