While I appreciate your opinion had this occurred in the UK, as you pointed out, I would never have been charged as the age of consent is 16 which ECO guidelines state that any conviction outside the UK must use UK sentencing guidelines in respect to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. As this woul...

aakiya1986, Thanks for your response, could you possibly point me to where these changes have been posted? To my knowledge I have reviewed the most current criteria, although given the outdated and inaccurate nature of a number of areas of the UKVI site I don't doubt I missed something or read an ou...

Quick update. Finally recieved notice that my visa application has been refused. Actually the exact wording was "We regret to inform you that after careful consideration against the Immigration Rules, your visa application has been unsuccessful. Your documents will be dispatched from the Britis...

Yeah it's the latter part I'm worried about. Not sure how the failure to produce insurance or the failure to license dog is going to be weighed. For instance her the record clearly states that it is not a criminal offense so she didn't report it. However from looking at UK guidelines it can qualify ...

Well looks like I'm hosed I pulled my DMV report and had completely forgot about a seatbelt 3 years ago and failure to provide insurance ticket (had insurance but the insurance company hadn't sent a new one yet) beginning of this year. Then add in my wifes driving record 3 operating while suspended ...

Thanks for the reply DulceXimenaBO, not sure what you are suggesting I should include to support this. Other than my honorable discharge award from the army in 2000, and the very recent completion of my B.S. I spent most of that time working a dead end job just to keep a roof over my families head, ...

Here's the situation my wife and I are applying for our tier 4 students visa's for graduate school in the UK, however I have a criminal record from almost 20 years ago (as in a matter of months from 20 years.) Most of the charges were pretty serious, but I never spent more than 30 days in jail, no p...