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Hi,OFCHARITY wrote:You will need to give more details.
What's your nationality?
What documents did you submit?
and just out of curiosity, was she in the uk for at least 14 years? if so why didn't she try to 14yr long residence route?
Sorry to be a bit a brutal mate but the letter sounds a bit whiney, ignorance of the law is no excuse and she's old enough to know whether she's legal or not.fletchmonkey wrote:Letter explaining her overstaying - not her fault
She has no criminal record and earns decent money in UK
Thanks again
Just playing the OP's advocate. I think it will be easy to convince the ECO that the overstaying was not her fault. Becoming an overstayer at the age of 14 is not so implausible a thing as at that age the focus usually tends to be on sex, drugs, music and alcohol. She may have understood her status an year or a couple of years ago, but if she claims that she has just stumbled upon it and now since she has decided to recify it, the ECO has no way to proving that she deliberately overstayed from the age of 14 and should look kindly upon any application.Dawie wrote:Just trying to play devil's advocate here, but you might find it tough to convince the Home Office that the overstaying is not her fault. How has she managed to study, get a job, apply for a national insurance number, open a bank account, etc without her passport?
Yeah, born and bred British people without passports have no problem opening bank accounts, studying, etc which is usually done on the strength of a birth certificate and vouching from their parents.However, the not having a passport bit is a bit tougher to explain. Good thing I am not being paid! I do have British friends who have not stepped out of Stoke their whole lives and still has done all these things. But they were automatically send their NI at the age of 18 and managed to do all the things (except study, of course) without any hassles at all.