PaperPusher wrote:
Don't buy a ticket just in case the visa is refused. Don't book a hotel if your friend is not going to stay there.
But do you undestand how important this is to me? I have used 1 year for this. And should I just give up here? I dont mind to make one try and take risk and make the application as perfect as possible. If I do not buy the ticket, they will say that I dont have the money to buy the return ticket.
This is the problem with this kind of system: I have the money to support, so I could buy the ticket. But if I do not buy the ticket UBA does not believe that I have the money.
Dont you agree that buying the ticket would solve the money issue? They cannot say anymore that they dont believe I have money to go back, because the ticket is there. So why you say it has no value? Obviously it solves the ticket problem. And booking a hotel would solve the "where she is staying". Why do you think its a bad idea? These were the main issues why the first was rejected, so why not do this? I dont understand...
So, I would think that buyng the ticket would improve the application (because it proves we have money to buy the return ticket). Because it improves it, I would take the risk buying it.
They are still propably gonna ask our bank statements, because they want to know if we can support the stay (buying food etc). This is a bit strange to me if they ask this: to survive, one needs less than £1/day (I have lived many days like this and am still alive!). Food is cheap in London. So 2 weeks costs only £14. Then there is bus travel tickets to/from the airport which is about £20 total. So we need to have about £50 total to support her 2 weeks essentials. We can buy expensive tickets (£700), I can pay my rent every month, but we dont have tiny money like £50??
. This is not logical to me if they think like this (that we cannot prove we have £50). And even if we theoretically speaking think that we did not have that £50 money, if I have only couple of friends here in the UK, do you think they would not lend that money if they hear that my girlfriend comes to visit - a very important meeting?
I cannot believe they could think that we cannot gather £50 ...
Using mathematical/statistical propability calculations (I have studied them in uni) I am absolutely sure, that if you do a statistical survey about all people who can afford to buy a £700 flight tickets and who pay their £300 rent every month they *also* have £50 extra money left after that. I could bet my £1500 on this! Its very very unlikely that your money ends just to that £1000. You have £1000 but you dont have £1001...that is very unlikely. Because if you had a means to gather £1000, there is overflow and you propaply gathered much more than that whatever the way was you gathered that £1000.
Think about investment for example. Person A is a good investor. He says that he got some big profits and can thus buy a £1000 ticket. Do you think his profit was exatcly that £1000.0000000000 ? No, he won much more ... he is just using part of that profit he got. Its unlikely he made exatcly £1000 profit and also ticket price is exatcly £1000. Statistically speaking this is very unlikely.
We dont mind to share the 1 ticket price $500 to take a risk that it helps. We will do it, if it helps to get the approval.
There are couple of other options:
- Me to wait more than 6months trying to build up a good business and income to have good bank statements. But this is a bit too long time in my situation and I cannot do that.
- I could travel to Africa to meet there. Well, this is what I am actually planning to do. But will first try UK meeting. Africa gives easily Visas I have heard.
