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Was anything written in his passport? Whatever u do - be honest in ur app - any sort of deception will be found out and may result in a baan of up to 10 years.StaceyWarman wrote:Hi All,
I have been reading some of these posts and I am getting somewhat confused. I am british born and my fiance is from Nigeria. He came on a student visa and overstayed by 3 years. He was walking down the street one day and got stopped by 2 policemen for looking suspicious. He knew they were going to start asking him questions and confessed his situation. They took him to the police station and called Immigration. He was not deported nor was he removed. His paperwork says he voluntarily decided to leave the UK and he has not got any criminal record after being arrested. He left on saturday morning and it was the worst day of my life. I am flying to Nigeria on the 27th June - flight is paid and i have my visa and we are getting married but i am worried about him being an overstayer. There is a question asking if you have ever been deported, removed or asked to leave the country. His family are saying that we should put no as technically none of these relate to his case but i think that leaving that question blank if they find out that he was asked to leave then they will think what else are we lying about on the application. Do you think overstaying will affect he's chances of the application being granted? Also, even though we lived together for 2 years, we stayed with a friend so we had no tenancy agreement or any bills in our name. Will this also have any effect on our application.
I have 4 weeks until i go so i am panicking quite a bit and any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Anything at all with IS151 or similar on it?StaceyWarman wrote:No - he had lost his passport about 2 years ok so immigration arranged for him to have an emergency travel document that he picked up when we got to the airport from the airline supervisor
Removal or deportation notice, just trying to find out if he was issued with one, i know u said not, but u never know.StaceyWarman wrote:Sorry i'm a bit new to all this. What is a IS151?
Three years overstay is not a silly thing, it's quite a serious overstay. Best to be be humble and apologetic over it rather than try and pass it of a trivial and risk getting the ECO's back up.StaceyWarman wrote:Well thank you for your help anyway. Its costing me an absolute fortune for the flight and the application but its just not worth it if he has no chance of coming back. We have a friend at the Nigerian Embassy who seems hopeful but they can reject things for such silly things.