hi my father passed away last week. My sister lives in Taiwan ( student visa, Zimbabwe passport) and would like to apply for visitor visa to attend his memorial service which will be held in the uk on 23/02/19. we will both be travelling to Zimbabwe next week for burial ceremonies, but will be back ...

Just an update,we have collected passport today and it is great news!!! Application Submitted online: 11/9/17 Type of application: settlement, umarried partner Country: Nigeria Additional services: priority Biometrics completed: 14/9/17 Confirmation application forward to decision making center: 14/...

Oh, i forgot to mention that in terms of joint financial commitment- we dont own the house or even a car(very eco-conscious) but we have receipts of home furnishings we have purchased together and the dates match the period we have been living together. We have also provided photographic evidence th...

Hi This post is just FYI as I have not seen many people on this forum in our situation (young couple, unmarried partner application from Nigeria). Hopefully someone will find useful in the future! I will post a full timeline once biometrics are done and the countdown begins To recap see below: https...

Thanks for your reply. You mentioned that your partner was an overstayer when he applied for FLR(FP). Did he fall for refusal? Did the caseworker point that out? Also, was he granted right to appeal from inside the UK? Hi ,not sure what you're asking but yes we did explain why he is an overstayer (...

Hi all My partner and I applied for an FLR FP in Feb 2017 and received a refusal approx 4 weeks later due to lack of issurmountable obstacles. I would say no news could still mean good news and that they are still carefully considering all your cases as our refusal response came fairly quickly .. Ha...

When did you submit your FLR(FP)? I know that there's a huge backlog. Even spouses who paid for priority have been waiting for 3 months or more. I'm not sure if that applies to everyone or specific countries/continents. We applied in Feb 2017 and received the rejection end of march. The appeal was ...

**If anyone could direct me to any recent threads relating to spouse/unmarried partner visas from NIGERIA, i would really appreciate it.** There isn't a specific thread for Nigeria. Suggest open a topic with your questions when you get to the point of preparing the application. Are you married? It ...

UPDATE: Well, we submitted the FLR FP due to strong persuasion from our solicitor, but as expected, it failed :cry: (due to lack of insurmountable obstacles only, everything else was fine). Solicitor then lodged an appeal without even consulting us :evil: We have decided that he will return to Niger...

sorry to keep harassing you all, does anyone have any input: Has anyone heard of cases where the HO has allowed a notice to go through without photo ID or have sent a person's photo ID to a registry office to allow the notice to be put through so that HO's 70 day investigation process can be carried...

Use Board advanced search feature: http://www.immigrationboards.com/search.php And/or use 'search this forum'-field in required subforum of interest. And/or: google immigrationboards <your query> thank you but it seems i have no access to the advanced search feature and there is no 'search this for...

Search forum. Some folks had a wonderful day. And some (even with permission) have received unexpected visitors at the ceremony. thanks. probably a silly question but is there a way to search through forums for a specific topic? i know all topics are in broad categories such as this immigration for...

In order for a foreign national to marry in the UK (without the appropriate fiance visa), they will have to register their intent to marry with a Home Office designated Registry Office. The Registrar is then legally bound to notify the HO who can then extend the notification period from 28 to 70 da...

in the spirit of covering all available options, does anyone have any information regarding this question i posted earlier; -have the home office ever granted approval for marriage if requested when one party is an overstayer? is there a way for them to send his passport to a registry office so that...

When applying as a spouse or unmarried partner visa from outside of the UK, the application can't be refused under 320(7b) but it can fail under 320(11) if there has been frustration of the Immigration Rules. Read through the guidance for Immigration Officers in the link below giving grounds for re...

noajthan wrote:And you will find other overstayers celebrating their legitimisation by return to UK and whatever passes for normality for them;
sometimes after years of living beyond the pale in what is now an increasingly criminalised kind of shadowland.
Good luck.

thank you for your responses

Rather than living in denial, the best way to regularise an overstayer is to leave and come back as a spouse/partner. Unless there had been a frivolous or calculated attempt to vex immigration regulations. And then the prognosis is not good at all. no denial about our situation at all, but i unders...

CR001 wrote:The easiest and simplest way is for him to return to his home country and apply from there.

as i said, because he is classed an over stayer now i think the fear is always that HO will find any excuse to block his return if he leaves (as supported by hundreds of threads on this forum)

What's preventing him from returning to his home country and applying for an Unmarried Partner visa from there? :idea: please see some of the reasons i listed above regarding his current relationship with family + religious issues back home. but mostly because he is classed an over stayer now i thi...

it is worth applying then? our case seems almost too straightforward to me, we just want to stay together! i know of course they don't care. his immigration history is also straightforward (compared to some of the posts I've seen here) have the home office ever granted approval for marriage if we r...

it is worth applying then? our case seems almost too straightforward to me, we just want to stay together! i know of course they don't care. his immigration history is also straightforward (compared to some of the posts I've seen here) have the home office ever granted approval for marriage if we re...

He was on a student visa (tier 4) from 2009 until 2015. then he went unto a graduate entrepreneur visa.

It had to do with the accounting paperwork that they deem insufficient (he had new investment funds for his business). He applied for the tier 1 before his valid visa expired, but it did expire during the application as they took months to process. He applied for that instead of the FLR(M) because h...

hi guys i had started a previous thread relating to a fiance visa but our circumstances have CHANGED hence a new topic my partner and i are now considering applying for an FLR FP as a partner. To recap, He is Nigerian and i am British citizen. He applied for an entrepreneurship visa (had previously ...

Oh ok,thank you. so the fiance visa then. Any advice on the points I mentioned above I.e wedding plans and implications of going into overdraft?much appreciated x