Hi I've posted a few posts explaining my situation before. I'm now in Beijing applying for a visitor's visa for my Mongolian girlfriend who is also here with me. I realise it's a long post but maybe someone will read it
Ok first I'll post my supporting letter:
Dear Sir,
I am writing to give support to ... and ...'s application for a visitor's visa to the UK. I am ...'s boyfriend and am hoping that she will be allowed to pay a visit with her daughter. We have known each other since May 2007 and been a couple since August 2007. We first met in an apartment of a mutual friend. She introduced us and we became friends after this. This is a genuine relationship and I really need her to come to the UK to meet my parents and the rest of my family. I have already met her Mother and Daughter when they came to stay with us in Singapore in October 2007. Her mother stayed for almost a month and her daughter stayed with us after this. I have also met her youngest sister who is here with us in Beijing right now.
The reason why we are hoping to do this now is that we want to take our relationship to the next level. We were together whilst I was working as ... in Singapore. She was due to start a course in English in Singapore, but I persuaded her to go back to Mongolia and try for a course in England. At the time we really thought this would be the best option. We went through a rogue company (we didn't know anything at the time) who gave bad advice and of course the application was refused.
We're going to be extremely busy during their visit to the UK and I really want to show them all the different aspects of my life. I want to take them to London a couple of times during the visit and show them around my favorite sites such as the British Museum and the National Art Gallery and also take them to watch a concert in the Barbican one time and to the West End for a musical the next. As we will be living in the heart of the Forest of Dean there are many activities to do there.
The main place we will be staying is with my parents at their house in Gloucestershire at the above address. It is comfortable place to live and has ample room (6 bedrooms only 1 in use at the moment). My mother is a retired primary school teacher and has offered to give ... (daughter) tuition for English along with piano lessons.
As I said before this is a genuine relationship and we're both aware of the regulations when they are presented a visa. We are not ready for marriage yet but if everything goes well during the visit we will be seriously thinking about a fiance visa. She will not work or study in the UK and between us we have enough money so that she doesn't have to work. She will return back to Mongolia at the end of the visit. There can be no doubt about this because we would never see each other again if she overstayed. It's far too much risk for our relationship, for her and above everything else her daughter. Also she is well aware that if we do in fact wish to marry we cannot attempt to change to a fiance visa from a visitors visa. She would have to go back to Mongolia first and apply from there. This presents no problem for us as it would only be a couple of months apart as opposed to 4 months! I am also well informed that the embassy prefers for people to apply directly for a fiance visa when they are a couple but for us this just isn't the right thing to do yet. I really do hope that you can empathise with everything that I've said. I apologise for being so verbose but I needed to try and explain everything in the best possible way.
After the visit she and her daughter will leave the UK together.
Yours faithfully,
ben_9943.
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Then I'm also sending all the conversations we've had by Skype and Yahoo Messenger, Bank Statements (hers and mine), a letter from my parents saying it's ok for them to stay there, emails backwards and forwards, plane tickets invoices to show that we were meeting at the same times, maybe a copy of my passport showing that we were in Malaysia, beijing and singapore together, an english certificate, her mother's work reference, her marriage cert (she's now separated though), driving license, visa credit card, mother's work details (as a translator and a teacher), proof that my parents own the house.
She used to work for a family business which belongs to her parents in law but she's now unemployed. So unfortunately no letter stating that she has employment to go back to. I really hope they believe in us because everything stated here is 100% true. I know that means nothing. But if anyone could advise us further on what we might need other than these things for the application any advice would be great. Also it would be interesting to find out whether people on here think this application would stand ANY chance of success? We're applying tomorrow at 7:30am and then I catch a flight back to the UK and she's going to stay in Beijing to wait.
Thanks,
Benb