Visit UK as a visitor while awaiting decision on settlement

[us.student]

This might seem crazy, but I would like to know if the following would be possible:

1. I submit an application for a settlement (fiance) visa, handing over my US Passport to the UKBA in the process.

2. I request a replacement US passport from the authorities here, to use while my primary passport is being held. I have read that the US authority will do this in cases where the passport is being held.

3. I visit the UK as a regular visitor while my settlement visa is being processed. Only a short time, less than a week. (This is because I'd like my family to meet my fiance, so I'd be visiting shortly with them.)


Thank you.

[Casa]

Highly likely that you will be 'bounced' on entry. Border control may well take the view that with a pending fiancee visa and your fiance resident in the UK, you will overstay. A duplicate passport will flag up a warning with the entry officer. I also believe you will find that the US government will only issue a replacement passport as a matter of emergency.