no entry clearance post

[linzm]

Hi
Does anyone know if there are many countries that do not have an entry clearance post?
We are currently waiting to hear about my partners in-country fiancee visa application. He is a failed asylum seeker.
I know that the general advice is to return home and apply, but we have tried unsuccessfully to get him a passport/travel doc, so he is currently unable to get home.
By coincidence his country doesn't have an entry clearance post, could this make any difference to our application? It seems a little unfair, not to mention expensive! to have to travel to a third country to hand in application, return again for interview etc?
Thanks

[SYH]

For goodness sake, what country is this?

[linzm]

guinea

[avjones]

Hello,

it can make a difference, yes. In the case of Afghanistan (which has no entry clearance facilities) the AIT said in January that it was unfair to expect people to travel back there to make an application for EC. But the mere absense of an EC facility isn't enough, you need to look at how hard it is to travel elsewhere to apply, where the designated EC post is, etc.

[sakura]

Hello,

it can make a difference, yes. In the case of Afghanistan (which has no entry clearance facilities) the AIT said in January that it was unfair to expect people to travel back there to make an application for EC. But the mere absense of an EC facility isn't enough, you need to look at how hard it is to travel elsewhere to apply, where the designated EC post is, etc.

And, isn't it the case that sometimes a third country is designated your EC area? I mean...I have seen where applicants from country x are told to submit their applications to country y for visas/EC. I am not sure re: Guinea, but I have seen this for small countries with no embassies located there.

[linzm]

Thanks Amanda and Sakura for the helpful comments. I will look further into it, and submit any further evidence to the home office.
Thanks again.

[avjones]

It is the case, yes. In the case of Afghanistan, the designated post was in Pakistan, but the AIT thought it was unduly harsh to expect people to go there to apply for EC.