Hi all.
My story.
I'm a Uk citizen, have been with my partner two and a half years, she is a US citizen. Mainly I travelled to the US on esta approximately 5 times a year, gradually increasing my stay to around 3-4 weeks at a time. Risky scenario but it worked ok. She came over to UK 2-3 times per year and stayed 2 weeks. We also travelled Europe together when we would meet in different countries as we both work in the same industry this worked out well, going to conferences for work and being together.
My Fiancé decided to join me in UK for two years as she had a job offer and shares to start a new business. (I have a thread on this somewhere). Well we left it in the hands of the company to sort visa, my fiancé arrived in Uk beginning January on normal visitor visa, the sponsor was turned down as not enough info, new comlany etc. The company is up and running with bank accounts and registered. So she had no visa, we looked at options for her applying for a visa in Uk for her to stay, we were advised this was not possible and she had to apply from the US. So after some thought we decided to return to the US and get married. We got married and applied for a spouse visa. Long story short we never provided enough evidence of our relationship and my earnings due to us not reading the notes to the forms. We basically printed the forms out and filled them in thinking this is what was required. So we got refused as not enough info.
We are planning to reapply for the spouse visa with all the correct info but the problem I have is most of the stuff they want is in the Uk. I have my own limited company , I'm the sole director so I'm classed as self employed. This makes it harder as they want so much info. I make more than the 18600 via my wage and dividends but I pay myself my dividends at the end of my financial year so I have only earned my wage so far. I pay my wage in a lump sum at end of year also so my bank statement this year does not show my wage transferred to my personal account, I'm going to speak with my accountant to see what can be done. My business account has more than the threshold and I made more the previous year. So I'm in a pickle, I earn enough easily but proving it is tricky right now. Plus I work away a lot so my payslips are emailed to me by my accountants payroll so I don't have hard copies unless I print them out, everything I do including banking is online, no paper.
They want original hard copies of paperwork which is hard to provide right now unless my account and and bank can send it over.
So, that is a little about our situation. We thought by coming to the US, marrying and applying we were abiding by the rules but it seems to have backfired on us. Now we are so depressed about the whole situation.
My wife wants us to return to Uk to get all paperwork, she also needs to collect belongings she left behind and I need to see my son amongst other things.
So has anyone successfully returned to the UK without applying for a visitor visa and been let in. I know they may think she will overstay but she won't as we plan to return to the US a d reapply for the spouse visa.
Thanks all
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