Fiancé coming to visit prior to heading to U.S for Wedding.

[jsknight89]

Hi,

Apologies if this is a repeat of another post but I’m a new user and to navigate on the phone is tricky at best. I have seen some similar discussions but none that quite match my situation.

My fiancé (U.S citizen) is currently living in the states after spending the past academic year in Spain teaching English.

We are planning to get married in the U.S at Christmas to allow some of her elderly family to attend who would not be able to travel. After this she will remain there and submit an application for a spouse visa to come here and work / live with me.

She has flights booked to come here in 2 weeks time and our plan is that she will stay here with me purely as a visitor until December at which point we will both fly to the states for the wedding. My concern is that when she arrives in the U.K. they are going to question the amount of time she plans on spending here.

I’m quite luckily in that I have a good salary and some savings to be able to support her and myself and she will also have about 4K of savings when she arrives.

Unfortunately since being back in the US from Spain she has been living with her parents and therefore does not have a lease, nor does she have a job as she only recently arrived back. She does however have evidence of 5 trips since November 2017 where she has visited the U.K and returned to either Spain or the US in a timely fashion. We have totalled the amount days for these visits plus the planned duration and it is just over 5 Months and so within the 6 she is allowed as a visitor.

Is there anything of note she should bring with her which will help her gain entry as a tourist ? Also, is it worth explaining that we plan on going to the states at Christmas to marry or will this only hinder her chances ? We have absolutely no intentions for her to overstay especially when we are already preparing to fully follow the legal process.

Any advice / tips would be greatly appriciated.

[jsknight89]

**UPDATE**

I have just been onto the gov website and used the tool to see what it suggests with regards to visa’s etc. It results were:

Check if you need a UK visa

You’ll need a visa to join your family or partner in the UK for a long stay

You don’t need a visa if you’re visiting family or a partner for 6 months or less

As this visit will be for 4 Months and will still total sub 6 for the 12 month period I’m inclined to think all will be O.K?!