why is it so hard for bangladeshis to get a visa to come to england?

Question

my boyfreind lives in bangladesh and i want him to come to england to visit me

Answer 1

why don't you go there ?he's probable tired of banging his sister anyway.

Answer 2

The cynicism with which a visa officer regards a visa application is proportional to the experience the Home Office has with persons of that nationality who have vistied Britain in the past.

The Home Office has quite good records on visa fraud, fake documents, and misrepresented intent.

It's this last one that is key, because it's the hardest to anticipate.

An American immigration judge was quoed as saying that he knew that 15% of the asylum seekers who came before him were genuine. It's just that -- a few poets and journalists and former politicians aside -- he didn't know which ones made up the 15%. So in effect he just guessed.

That's pretty much the way it would be with the visa officer, and in part it is that way. But the officer's promotion prospects depend on his or her not making too many mistakes. So they will err on the side of caution, of rejection.

Everyone knows that the kitchens of Indian restaurants around Britain are filed with Bangladeshis, many of them undocumented, smuggled in or overstaying.

A rich Bangladeshi will not have that problem. In 1980/81 I knew an Iranian Jew who had managed to get his fortune out of Iran (he sold his factory to a waiting buyer the day after Khomeini's picture was in the news showing him kissing Yassir Arafat). The Iranian would spend 6 months in Britain and 6 in Finland, where he also had a visa because he used to visit the two countries on business. One time when he was due to leave he fell ill and was delayed a few days.

In those days, an immigration inspector would stamp your passport upon exit. My acquaintance was sharply interrogated by a young woman inspector as to why he'd overstayed. When he said he'd been ill, she asked where he'd been living. He took out his bill from the Churchill Hotel: 3 months, £25,000 including lavish meals. The inspector quickly said, "It's been nice having you in Britain sir. Visit us again!"

That's the difference.

Even the marriage experience with Bangladesh has been discouraging for the Home Office: there is a waiting list -- perhaps due to racist prejudices objecting to dissolution of traditional British culture, but also to funding limts and fraud. There is no doubt that huge numbers of fake marriages have been contrived over the years.

No doubt your case is sincere. But, as I said, the cases tend to look alike and there simply is not the funding to permit in-depth research, home visits, and the like. You can develop an evidentiary file of photographs and testimony, and if your bf manages to visit once -- either Britain or another EU country -- and returns home the likelihood of his getting a second visa are immeasurably improved.

I do wish you well.

Answer 3

Because there is a growing paranoia in the UK about immigration. There is a vociferous few with a 'little Englander' mentality who think we are being swamped by people from overseas and want to see immigration curtailed, especially from countries where people are not of caucasian origin. These people are incipient racists.
What they will say is that "your boyfriend only wants to come here for a better life and when his visa runs out he will not go home and try to hide away in the British Bangladeshi community and want to live here illegally."
Personally I can't see why your boyfriend cannot visit you in the UK and I wish you every success with his application for a visa.

Answer 4

The British Embassy/ High Commission fear that your boyfriend will overstay his visa. But don't worry- they cannot reject him without a good reason. Make sure you have papers in place to show that he will not be reliant on public funds when he is over here (such as your bank statements), and then appeal against any decision to refuse him a visa. I heard somewhere that 85% of appeals are successful, as the original rejection is often down to the paranoia of an entry clearance officer rather than for any good reason.

Answer 5

Basically because a) there is a large Bangladeshi community in the UK, and it's therefore easy for visitors to outstay their visa without being noticed, and b) a large number of people have previously done so.

Answer 6

Ask his government to join the EU (yes, I know Bangladesh is a little bit outside Europe's borders, but, then hey, they can always stretch a point when they want to) and then he can join the party too.
Yes, I know Britain has more historic ties with Bangladesh than Roumania, but Jacques et ils freres, have chosen to ignore this little point.
And please don't bother Tony with such trifles. The poor man is exhausting himself pouring over literature , wondering if it is going to be Tuscany again next year or Barbados.

Answer 7

Because a lot of people from the third world come to the UK on a visa and then never go home.

Answer 8

Because Bangladeshis arrive in the country and never leave again, and we've got more than enough already

Answer 9

Because he will never go back, then our taxes are paying for him to live here for free. what will he do for us when he gets here?

Answer 10

Because no-one ever goes back.