Filipino visa refusal?

Question

I've been refused a visa into the uk from the Philippines to be with my boyfriend. I've been there before and followed all the visa rules and went home in good time but now they wont let me back. Does anybody have any experience with this

Answer 1

It must be because it's a different person reviewing your application. I believe that most visa's are given subjectively (as I've noticed at the US Embassy). Similar individuals get different results. Others just get lucky. I suggest you try again without mentioning that you have a boyfriend there. To them, this means that you are not going back to the Philippines and, of course, will not grant you a tourist visa. If you do plan to immigrate, you have to follow a different route and apply for a fiance visa.

Answer 2

The 3 answers so far are way off the point.They are nothing to do with the question you asked.I will deal with them first.

For your information,EU citizens are not immigrants.All EU citizens, including ourselves,have the right to live and work in any EU country, and they don't have to ask permission from anyone,or have a visa. Therefore each time a new country joins,it will have the same privileges.
Most other countries in the world fall into one of 4 categories as far as the UK is concerned.
1.Countries whose citizens can enter the UK without a visa.
2.Countries whose citizens who need a visa and can normally receive it at the discretion of our consuate.
3.Countries whose citizens need a visa, but is on the list of countries where terrorists are known to be, and therefore applications are scrutinised more closely.

The Philippines is in Group 3!..Courtesy of Al Qaeda links in the Muslim south.

However, that said, the UK is still has the most liberalEU country as far as visas are concerned.

Avenus..
The UK visa system is nothing like the US system, or for that matter the Australian system.
We do not have 'Tourist' visas, and we certainly do not have 'Fiancee' visas, or for the benefit of fat_chaz, 'fiancE!'visas.(Am I the only one who read HIS posting properly?)
What we have is a 'visitor visa', and spaces to explain the reason for visit.In most cases, in most countries, including the Philippines,except in peak holiday periods,visitor visas are issued within a few days of applying.
ALL VISITOR VISAS ARE VALID FOR A STANDARD PERIOD OF 6 MONTHS FROM DATE OF ISSUE.That means that you Can enter the UK any time after it is issued,but must leave the UK before the end of the 6 months.So if you wait 5 months before you go, you will only be able to stay for a month!. Got it?

zztopless see my remarks about the UK system.AND...Visitors to the UK are not allowed to be married unless they have received permission for that in advance,and it is stamped in the passport.If a person did contrive to marry while visiting, it would be regarded as being an attempt to illegally overstay.The person would have to leave before the expiry of their visa,and would have a tough time trying to get any visa in the future.

fat_chaz
Yours is the simplest part.
At present,about 40% of UK visa applications in the Philippines are unsuccessful.There are several reasons.
One is that the supporting documents were either incomplete,or false.Anothr is that our consular officer was not convinced that the applicant would leave the UK at the end of the visit.There is another common problem, and it concerns 'fixers' or 'agents' who manage to convince people they can 'facilitate' visas.They will spin out ther process and collect as much money as often as they can, and delay submitting it because they know it will fail.
many applications also fail because the available finance is insufficient, or has miraculously appeared recently!
Therefore,it is better to do the whole thing yourself. It is not complicated. Full instructions are on the embassy website,and you can download the forms,which are free of charge.If you need help to complete the forms,ask an intelligent RELIABLE friend

Now,if you have been refused a visa, you should have been given the reason, because you are entitled to know why. Also,although there is no automatic right to a visa,if you don't agree with the reason for rejection, or if you believe you have been treated unfairly,you do have the right of appeal,and it is also free.All you have to do is write a letter in your own words, saying why you think the visa should have been granted. You have already mentioned several good points.Send the letter to the Consul-General at our Manila embassy.You will get a reply.and it will not take long! I am surprised that more people do not appeal, because the success rate it quite good.Our embassy staff are tyring to let visitors into the UK,not keep them out!
One final thing to remember,is that the visa is only a provisional clearance. The final entry decision is made by the immigration officer at the port or airport of arrival.
now get that appeal in,and good luck!

Answer 3

Hello,

(ANS) I dont know this for certain & I cannot prove this directly, but I have a VERY strong feeling that the British Government (home office) & the Dept for Emigration have an unspoken policy:-

a) certain countries & citizens of those countries are carefully excluded. Such as anyone from Africa, especially from places like Ghana, Nigeria, Somalia, Ethopia (the last 2 especially because of ongoing conflicts & wars). Zimbawe becuase of the horrendous dictatorship of Robert Mgarbie,etc.

b) the emigration into the UK policy was changed recently, now EU emigrants are tolerated but emigrants from outside of the EU zone are definately excluded much more strongly than ever before.

c) I think that the Philapines are a sensitive country for the UK emigration due to the unstable political situation? possibly.

**My guess is that the first time you came they probably gave you a tourist visa for only a few weeks or months. I wonder if you were refused because you asked for a longer stay duration? it could be that also, as well as where you come from??

I dont know if there is anyway around this, I think its pretty difficult.

**Finally, the home office is in utter chaos at the moment (its a mess) politically, its a massive government organisation which should have been split into atleast 4 seperate smaller dept's. So even if your claim was valid my guess is they could easily have messed up the whole thing anyway, as you can see I have little faith in such government beauocracy's. And I live here, so what chance has anyone else when the left hand doesnt know what the right hand is doing.

Best Regards to you, IR

Answer 4

Unusual because if you have complied with the rules before, then usually there is no problem. Your boyfriend should go to Lunar House, Wellesley Street, Croydon, and speak to them.
The Home Office Immigration, and the British Embassy, are in my opinion two first class services, and they bend over backwards for genuine cases.
Pursue the matter, with the Embassy as well in writing, saying how disappointed you are at the decision, and the reasons why you think it should have been granted. The visa when granted is valid for entry to UK for six months. Then you have the full time in UK from date of arrival. Yes the immigration officer might want to ask some questions on arrival. So it would be as well for your boyfriend to be at the airport to meet you. He can be called in, any questions that you are asked answer truthfully and honestly. Your boyfriend will be asked the same questions, if you need to qualify your answer do so.
Good luck with your application.
If you were sponsored by someone else before, that would be the reason for refusal.

Answer 5

Here's a link to the British Embassy visa services page:

http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1006977149953

Copy it and paste it in the address bar. You'lll need a recomendation from a British passport holder, evidence you can support youself during your stay (bank staements) OR evidence the person giving the recomendation can support you. You'll also need to pay a fee of around £250. There IS a tourist visa, it is valid for 6 months and is a multiple entry visa, so you can come in and out of the country during those 6 months! The best thing would be to look for yourself at the address I gave you though! It WILL take a long time though so expect to have to wait awhile.

Answer 6

if you overstayed your visa then you must waived the ban on you by the home office.it will be three years or more.plus its only your boyfriend not a fiancee.you should marry him while you staying in england.or let him come to phillippines to marry you.its not only england had a policy of refusing your visa .australia and america have the same policy.in australia if you overstayed your visa but married an australian citizen.you will only need a bridging exit visa without it then they will held you up in the airport.then you can apply in the australian embassy with all the requirements they needed to proccess your papers.the shortest processing is 4 months.then you will be allowed back in.because you stayed in england for certain time then they ask you to provide a police clearance.if you have done this while in england .then you have eliminate one of the obstacle.if you havent done this then you are in deep ****.if your boyfriend really wants to be with you then he is the only hope.so i suggest dont lost contact with him.otherwise life you have experience abroad will never be repeated again.goodluck

Answer 7

Philippine?

Answer 8

She nevertheless needs to be separated legally to her modern husband in the previous you may marry her. Technically that keeps to be bigamy despite in case you adult men have become married in the US. whilst they are asserting that an American might terminate a Filipino marriage, i think of they're conversing approximately an American guy/woman married to a Filipino guy/woman archives for a divorce then he/she will marry back. she will report for annulment simply by fact from what I remember, they might do annulments in the Philippines now. So i assume in the previous you adult men finalize something she needs to guard her modern status staggering now.

Answer 9

The British embassy makes money refusing visa's, they think the applicant will apply again and they will take fee again. they not bothered who they allow and not allow, its the luck of the draw.