Hi, my husband got refused his visa!!
I am so annoyed and upset, especially for the reasons of refusal, although i have not properly looked into them.
The reasons stated were: "I am not satisfied, on the balance of probabilities, that you meet requirements of paragraph 277, 278 & 281 in particular: that each of the parties intends to live permanently with the other as his or her spouse and the marriage is subsisting as required by Rule 281 (iii) HC 395"
Any idea where i can find out more about the above points?
The interviewer stated that as my husband is a Muslim, he is not allowed to marry a Christian, which is not true, as we would not have been married in the first place, if that was the case!
I quote from '
www.islam-qa.com'
"Praise be to Allaah.
A Muslim man is permitted to marry anyone he likes of the women whom Allaah has allowed him to marry, but he is encouraged to marry a Muslim woman who is religious and has a good moral character (because this is the basis of true happiness). Similarly, he is
permitted to
marry a chaste woman of the People of the Book, i.e., Jews and
Christians."
My husband tried to argue against that point, but the interviewer would not accept it.
He also said "you were married on 21/02/2005 and i note from the copy of your sponsor's passport that she stayed in Pakistan only one day after that date. I consider it reasonable that, were you genuinely intending to live together, she would have stayed in Pakistan with you for more than one day. I note she was not working in the UK at that time,
[if he had read the letter from my place of work, he would know i was employed from March 2004, nearly a year before, i had booked only 2 weeks off from work and i had gone during half term, so not to interfere with my studies]
therefore she was not required to return to the UK because of her job.
I also sought that your sponsor has not sought to visit you in Pakistan since she left a day after your marriage [again, i was studying and i had my a-level exams, by the time i had completed my exams, it was close to finding out the result of his visa, which is why we decided for me not to return, but to wait and find out what happens].
You have stated that your wife has just left school and has a part time job, she has only just started this job [incorrect - i started in March 2004] and has no savings with which to support you [i have £1500] There is an offer of third party support from the sponsor's father but this is written on the same typewriter and in the same style as the letter of support from your sponsor.
[But there was also my father's pension documents and my mothers savings, surely i would not forge these?]
I am not therefore satisfied that they have not been written by the same person and therefore actually available to you. In the same way I am not satisfied that the accomodation on offer will be available to you either. [The fact that both me and my father wrote our letters together, using the same computer, we just used Times New Roman, the standard font, if i had changed mine to Comic Sans, would that have proved anything? How can i prove that my father is willing to support myself and my husband, without him actually going to Pakistan and attending the interview also].
Sorry i have made it such a long post, i just wanted to type as much information as possible, because we do have the chance to appeal. But i can't see what further documentation we can show, that will help. My husband said he did not even look at most of the documents he gave him, which is probably why he has made all of these assumptions!
So what is the best route to take now? Appeal in the UK or in Pakistan? Or is there another way to solve this, without going down the appeal route.
I hope you can advise me and once again sorry for making it so long!
Claire.