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As you will know, in Thailand a religious wedding has no legal significance at all, and the only way to get married is to register the marriage at the Amphur, which is a very simple form-filling exercise .... similar in terms of the process to registering a birth or a death at a Register Office in the UK. (When my wife and I registered our marriage at the Amphur in Phitsanulok in 2001, immediately after that my wife went to a different counter to get a new Thai ID card in her new surname. It took far longer to get that new ID card than it took to get married!)Yes marriage is possible. Hardly ideal timing but actually just a bringing forward of an already planned event. Hardly the romantic vision she had planned for herself though, a rushed job in Bangkok. However, if needs must etc.
The point is this. Having clearly indicated an intention to settle in the UK, applying for a visitor visa is even more fraught with problems. The question in the mind of the ECO looking at the visitor visa application is, why would this woman return to Thailand when her husband is living and working in the UK, and she has already indicated a desire to live in the UK?I am not sure a visitor visa can legally be refused on the grounds that one has had a settlement visa turned down.
That seems to be what people think and yet the law requires them to make decisions on the balance of probabilities. Someone with numerous previous visas and them leaving within the stipulated time periods would, on the balance of probabilities, have shown that they would leave, not the other way around !John wrote:Hmmm ...... I think I need to say ... best of luck ... you might need it.
But I don't think "spite" comes into it. It is simply that the ECO might conclude there is insufficient "reason to return".