My daughter (UK citizen) and her fiance (from Uganda) have been together for 3 years with a 10 month seperation inbetween. They have a 12 month old son together.
Backround history - He came to UK as a student on a student visa, did not renew after the 2nd year and was arrested and caught. He has spent 5 months or so in various removal centres. He was adviced to seek asylum and failed and got removal directions. He appealed this and applied for bail to be with his son and fiance over Christmas, judge was in a foul mood (another story) and refused bail.
Fiance returned to Harmondswoth and was there at the time of the recent fires ect ... he was then moved to Dover. During this time they were unable to find a lawyer on legal aid to assist them in trying to get him to remain in UK.
In his very depressed state he asked to be taken home to Uganda, his sat at the airport for 15 hours to be told he could not get on the flight.
He returned to Uganda (Kampala) last night. His passport has IS151A written on it on entry to Uganda.
I have searched what this is and think thanks to this board I have an understanding of it.
Now the questions -
1) He is going to apply to come back to the UK to be with my daughter and his son (he has two sons here). Will this IS151A be an automatic block?
2) My daughter has a job to start in April, it is only part time at the moment
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Does child benifit count as public funds? (she claims this not him).
Would working/family tax credits count as public funds? (she claims this not him)
How about housing benifit (I suspect this would count as public funds)
3) They plan to marry, in peoples experience how far in advance should she plan this wedding - bearing in mind she is only just returning to work.
4) How many months bank statements are required on average to prove she can support the three of them?
5) They have photo's - birthday cards, some undated love letters ect to 'prove' their relationship - they did not live together as she was living at home so have no joint bills ect .... will this be sufficiante to prove their relationship? they never dated thing as they did not expect to prove their relationship.
My daugher and his heart are breaking as you can imagine. Any advice or help would be very much appreciated.