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scorpiolady wrote:My long term partner from Jamaica (soon to be fiance) has just been refused a visitors visa to come to UK to meet my family and friends. Without going into too much detail, we provided all the documentation as required, including our bank statements, letters from his employer, letter from his college tutor to prove he is studying, documents to show assets etc. We both feel that some of the information provided was either skimmed over or at worst completely ignored. He now has 28 days to appeal but because it was a visitors visa he only has limited rights of appeal under two categories: humanity and dearly beloved grounds. We are both aware that he as the applicant needs to evidence the details on the application form. We truly believe we have done this as per guidelines given by the UKvisas website.
Question...Would Article 8 of the Human Rights Act 1998 be appropriate to quote for appeal under the humanitarian grounds? Does he, or me if it applies to people from UK only, not have the right to family life, even though we have not taken the step to marry or live together as yet?
Incidently I have asked my local MP to write a letter to the Entry Clearance Officer Manager at the High commission in Kingston Jamaica and formally request a review of the case as some information we have provided has not been considered.
Thanking everybody for any replies.
If you think that's bad, I phoned the British Embassy here in South Korea with a visa query a few weeks ago to discover that they'd now outsourced their UK Visa Application Service to a company called VFS Global:Dawie wrote:It's almost insulting and patronising the way they refer to themselves as "Visa Customer Services", as if you are a "customer".