The core requiremets are :
- you have met
- you intend to get married withion the validity of her fiancee visa
- you can suport yoruself and your dependant without recourse to public funds
- you have sufficient accomodation
- Accomodation poses no issues.
- Presumably intention to marry could be covered by the booking of the church (CofE) and a letter from the vicar? I am assistant organist at the church we would use so this should pose no issues.
- Meeting will be covered when she visits on a tourist visa. Either that or I ( sell my classic sports car
and ) visit her!
The only issue I can forsee being awkward is my own financial status. As I stated, I am a uni student and therefore live on public funding in the form of a government loan plus monies from my parents.
My g/f is accumulating funds presently to satisfy the visitors visa. However, she has a trust fund to the tune of $50k which she tells me could be accessed. So, If she is able to support
herself would this circumvent the clause that I the sponsor would need to be capable of supporting myself and her?
Her "criminal conviction" is a sham to be perfectly honest. She had her attention in the wrong place at the wrong time and had a car accident. Unfortunatly the gentleman driver of the other car died. This does not mean that she is an immoral person, far from it. I believe that this should mitigate in her favor if it were to be brought up?
She did mention that she thought her conviction may not come up "as the united states do not disclose information about its citazens to other nations" Is there any truth in this?
So far as the comments that I "may be rushing into things" I thank you for your concern and I acknowledge your warning. The highest priority for the both of us at the moment is actually meeting one another.
I like to go into situations armed with facts on the principal that if you fail to prepare then you should prepare to fail.
I suppose I just want some reassurance that should we decide that the thing to do is to take the relationship further it is possible for her to come here on a fiance(e) visa in lieu of permenent residency.
Furthermore, given the information I have presented thus far, can anyone invisage any hurdles that I may encounter in getting her a visitors visa?
Would she perhapse stand a better chance of success by applying for a short term visitor visa and then, once here, apply for it to be extended as far as the maximum 6 months?
I thank you all once again for the erudite discussion and helpful comments that have been put forward.
With thanks,
JC.