zimba wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 4:04 pm
UKVI will be involved in any visa application anyway. It was the advisor who claimed (without any basis) that mountains of irrelevant paperwork need to be sent to the UKVI or else hell will break loose. Indeed this is the trick of the advisors/lawyers to give the client an impression that the process is overtly complicated to justify their large fees. If it all looks simple they cannot justify it, so they need the client to believe this
Although I agree with that being a shady tactic, that is a non-sequitur to what I meant about how my initial visa affected my approach: the first time I had to deal with UKVI for a resident visa (I didn't need tourist visa) I was given advice which,
regardless of how wrong it was, it was given by someone who I expected to be a subject matter expert, and it left a lasting impression of being subject to excessive scrutiny when dealing with UKVI. I had never applied for a UK visa before so I obviously had no experience to base myself off.
It's unreasonable to expect people to simply rationalise these concerns away, especially when large amounts of money and your immigration status (ie. mid to long term life plans) are on the line. That's just not how the vast majority of human brains work.