Visa for Turkish husband for uk but he has criminal record

Hi

I am new on here and looking for some help.

I am british and met my turkish husband 5 years ago, we finally married last April and are now looking to apply for him to come and live with me in the UK.

There is a problem though, he has a previous criminal record, two counts for possession of canabis, how will this affect his application for a Visa to join me here? Will he be automatically refused?

My finances are fine, I own my own home, we are both the same age, and I can prove our relationship has been constant for 5 years).

Any answers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time.

Lisa (LISACANO) xx

I am not suggesting that you or your husband would do anything else, but it is important that all questions on the application form are answered accurately.

I don't think those convictions will cause a problem. Indeed the thing that causes me more concern is that as you married a year ago, why are you only now thinking of applying for a spouse visa? Why the delay?

Hi

Thank you very much for replying.

We are only just applying now as we have not had the money to buy his passport and pay for the visa. Also, I had quite a large amount of debt and I have been working 4 jobs for the past year to clear it.

It has mainly been me stalling because I wanted to be financially secure and settled in my life before trying to tell the Visa people that I could emotionally and financially support my husband.

I now feel in a better position and more positive for my life, which I believe will help towards our future. I have never rushed in this relationship because I believe we will always be together and didn't see a year as being a problem to wait to be together if it meant me being more secure.

Hope this makes sense, what do you think? I want to be as honest and accurate as possible on the application and explain why we have waited.

We have always thought automatically it would be turkey we would settle (just down to their way of life, I'm not thrilled with the english way) but there is no financially security there in the immediate future for us, my husband finds it very difficult to find employment as he has little education. The holiday resorts are very undercut when it comes to their staff (definitly not the most honest people he could work for) His criminal record is also a problem with finding employment.

I am quite logical and sensible, I try not to let my heart rule my head and my mum always taught me to think things through and then plan accordingly x

OK, I understand. But I ask this, during the year since the two of you married, how many times have you actually met? And at times when the two of you are in different countries, how do you keep in contact, and can you prove it?

We married on 26th April last year and I went in August for 3 weeks and 2 weeks a Xmas.

I am going out on 2nd June to take all my paperwork with me for the Visa.

We speak daily by phone and I can prove this by his and my phone records, also some email, which can be shown.

Will his criminal record really not be an issue?

Kindest regards

Lisa

That "evidence of contact" looks fine, and should be included in detail in the "evidence folder".

The criminal record? Personally I don't think that will be a problem, as distinct from trying to hide that aspect and being caught out, which would be a great problem.

But that is the benefit of boards like this. Other people are perfectly entitled to post ... and hopefully they will .... to say what they think about the criminal record.