hello,i'm Danys, and i live in US under my U.S residence card,my natinality and pasport are cuban i have a relationship for 3 years with my boyfriend(who lives in London and he is british. we also planning to get marry, I know i need the fiance visa first, but i'm so behain what kind of requirements we need to send to the British Consulate. The problem is that he is for now having a break because he just finish his Degree and he doesn't have any job yet(he is also coming to stay here in US for 3 months and then we would go back toguether "if" my visa is aproved, then he will find a job, but not until then for travel reasons explained before) i feel like this is already a bad sign,but he is gonna inherit a house in june of next year, and we would live in his parents house until then, we will not ask for public funds...
I will apreciate very much anyone with a while whorty advice or information that we can use to send to the UK Consulate in the next weeks,
Thank you very much
As part of the application process he needs to provide his contract of employment, proof that he has somewhere for the both of you to live and bank statements for the previous 3 months or so.
The authorities need to be sure that he can financially support you and there is little, if any, risk that he/you will be a 'drain' on public funds.
In his current situation, living with parents and unemployed, then there may be a big question mark if he can support you, you say that he will look for a job in 3 months or so but UK is in a recession right now, people are losing their jobs, so looking for a job and actually securing a job are not the same thing.
You say he will have a house next June, that's only 7 or 8 months away, rather than apply for a visa now and run a very high risk of it being refused, and it would remain on record that the visa has been refused, why not wait 7 or 8 months until he has a house and, hopefully, a job.
Hello Martin.
I am the boyfriend/Sponsor Danys is refering to above.
Thankyou for responding to this.
It is certainly a concern that i live at home with no job yes, however it would help i think if i give a little more information regarding this whole thing.
At the moment with the supporting documents for our application i am also including proof of my Mothers income (she owns the house i live in with her) which is roughly 3 times above the national average and she is also giving her signed consent to support both of us for as long as necessary and an invitation for Danys to join me here in her home.
As well as this i am including a statement confirming my inheritence of a house next year from the relevant parties etc
Do you think that this will suffice to mitigate some of the authorities concerns about Danys' ability to live without recourse to public funds in the short term?
Many thanks
Fabio,
All you'll receive on forum(s) is personally opinions and educated guesses.
The authorities live in their black & white world of one must have their own place to live and their own income to support their partner, your situation is not black & white and I really don't know if the authorities would accept your circumstances and approve the visa.
I, personally, would delay applying for a visa until I had the house, until I had the job, but that is just me personally, you need to decide if you should wait a mere winter season or if you want to take the chance, I don't know if the consulate would give you advice but if you google for Danys's local British consulate then you should find an email address.
ben,
That is very untrue, some years ago I became on 'informal' terms with the British vice-consul (Dave) in Tashkent, he was even taking the piss out of my situation of me being in Tashkent for a week whilst the airline had lost my suitcase. He gave me some very good advice and at a later date(s) I can recall emailing the British consulate in SPb and again they gave advice.
Martin, if Danys emailed the consul the question she posted at the start of the theard they aren't going to go out of their way to help. They will refer them to the requirements but they cannot give advice as to when to apply for example its not their job to waste tax payers money helping people who are too lazy to do their own research (not saying Danys is but alot of people are). They don't have time to befriend everyone applying for a visa. You can ask them certin questions and they will answer but they can't advise you anymore than telling you what the requirements are and what information may support this. This isn't advice its facts. Emailing the consul is a good idea but its not enough, you will get only the basics. Remember its in their interest to refuse a certin percentage.
ben,
I said that I didn't know if the consulate would offer advice in this particular situation and it's not a case of anybody being lazy, it is simply a case of establishing if Fabio can be 'co-sponsored' in the application by other family member(s) or is he wasting his time for now.
I know that if I were to have asked 'Dave' in Tashkent the question then I would have got an honest answer. I recall asking him how much in one's bank account one was supposed to have to sponsor a visa, he told me that it would not be as much as perhaps I imagined would be required which, reading between the lines, meant that if one had a regular income and was in the black then one didn't need to have thousands in the bank.
And bearing in mind that at that time I had recently returned to living in UK most of my money was stashed in offshore bank accounts, he (Dave) assured me that my bank statements would not find their way to the inland revenue.
thank you so much both, Martin and Ben that you took a time to reply to our request, yes we been doing research for about 2 weeks now, and has been contradictory statements from one site to the other,a real headache and 7 hours per day googling info lol, we been putting all the pieces toguether by ourselves, and yes we have weakness in our situation, however we are trying our best, also i got a job offer in UK,by the time i got marry and be able to work. Hopefully they will focus in the fact that Fabio had already his degree and is able to work after he comes back to see me, we gonna continue with the process since i been waiting for 3 years,and living in U.S a shitty life,job,family without studying lol,(no ofences to anyone if american reading this)but i want to have this done.
As for borders control officers,imigration agencies,inmigration advicers,etc they not gonna give us a piece of info(for them is better u pay a ridiculous amount of money for their help: 367 pounds per hours was the average price this inmigration lawyer was asking Fabio to pay for his advices ha!...you were lucky Martin(and i really wish your good luck now ha ha)crossing fingers my option left..
Thank you guys x
Danys you and Martin are talking about two different people. Martin is talking about the UK government employees. You are talking about a private lawyer. There are many web sites that attempt to make you believe they are the official site but they are private businesses trying to lure you into becoming a client. I do not know about the Uk but if you ask specific questions to the US help line they will answer them. So I would make sure to have a list of the specific questions you want answered when you call or email.
Oz thank you for ur kind atenction, but as you see we r all talking about something we have no real idea about(a human excistenctial FACT and limitation)lol
yes you have to ask specific questions, thats the key. No need to hire an immigration lawyer, its like paying someone to read your watch and tell you the time.
Danys I doubt you would have problems just supply as much information as you can and don't focus only on the finanical side, you also need to prove your marriage is real and you intend to live together. Whatever you submit have copies of as they will want to keep the documents.
Well thank you for all those who were nice to us and were real help, we made it! i'm flying soon to England , good luck to all of you and keep always the good intentions!
best wishes~Danys~