tei123 wrote:i honestly dont no what best line of action to take now...am still in a state of shock.My wife meets all the requirements but the fear of going back and not knowing when i will be coming back cos i overstayed my visit visa since 2007,am scared they might use that against me and i dont no if the JR would be in my favour despite the fact that i ve been with my wife for 3yrs and been married since 01/12/12.neither of as has got kids so we can go down that route
ANY ADVICE ABOUT JR WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED PLEASE
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@tei
Listen hun, I got a little bit of advice for when you go to see your solicitor.
My best friend was in the same position as you , she is now in Moscow getting her paperwork sorted to apply from there.
Anyway, in her case she was refused, then solicitor started to push her towards JR at a cost of £4000. Basically when she first suggested to her solicitor that she may just want to return home and reapply from there he start saying how much of a bad idea that is and bla bla and how JR is pretty much guaranteed.
Because obviously some solicitors think they will lose a client this way and they will prolong an in-country process for as long as they can get away with and extract as much cash from us as they can.
So, we decided to trick this solicitor and convince him that my friend wants him to represent her in her out-of-country application also (we even pretended we want to pay him his fee in advance, before she goes back.)
Well guess what? The sucker fell for it left right and centre!! He totally changed his tune saying that in fact if thats what she wants to do, then he wont discourage her and yeah it will work quicker then JR and at the end he was saying its a brilliant plan!! ( Although she wont be using him of course, she wont be using a solicitor at all cause its pretty straight-forward process at the embassy and if you have all the right paperwork etc you re good to go.)
So moral of this story: when you go in to see your solicitor and if he sounds dead against you going home to re-apply, try and use this tactic to get an honest advice out of him!
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Good luck!!