Hello... I'm Anonymous03..Currently living and working in UAE I'm planning to work in UK any suggestions how to and where to apply from here. Thanks for all the response in advance. Godbless
Hello Anonymous03, This morning you sent me the following private message which, as you are a new member, I am unable to reply to. I assume your partner is Albanian, or maybe Filipino - at any rate, not a British Passport holder. I suggest you that you forget about trying to come to the UK by way of the "plan" conceived by your partner. Not only will it be enormously expensive but it may well fail and your partner - and the woman he marries - may end up being prosecuted, imprisoned and then deported. It will cost him around £10,000 - or more - for his sham marriage and that's before any visa fees are paid. The initial visa will cost £1523+, each of the two Further Leave visas will cost £1,033+, Indefinite Leave (ILR) a further £2,389+ and citizenship (including the test) £1,380+ making a total of £7,308+, he will then face similarly high costs for your visas. He would not be able to divorce safely until after he has successfully obtained ILR some five years after he has entered the UK (as his wife would be legally required to notify the authorities to any changes in circumstances and divorce would likely end his ability to remain in the UK). And you certainly can not be sponsored by him whilst he remains married to another. Even if everything goes well and you manage to join him after around 6 years, you would both be subject to deportation should the authorities discover that his earlier marriage was purely for settlement visa purposes. If you want to live and work in the UK, I suggest you look to marry either a British citizen or one from a EU country - unless, of course, you are a fully-qualified registered nurse (or similar).
I really appreciate on giving time and effort to reply on my inquiries it's really a great help even it's made me upset and sad at the same time I will still put all in Gods plan. thank you so much and Godbless
I reckon that's the role of an Entry Clearance Officer pretty much summed up, looking for transients such as the Op and her mate and stopping them entering the country. People wonder why there are rules!
I don't think 'God' approves of lying and cheating. Exactly the sort of behaviour that has made it so difficult and expensive for honest CITIZENS of the UK to bring their loved ones home.
You should be extremely careful, living together in Dubai. One phone call from a "concerned" citizen and you are in a world of trouble.
We get frustrated because we have to do five years Leave to Remain, pay thousands of pounds and have a minimum salary threshold. Then you read something like this and you realise why!
While I certainly don't condone what the girl is trying to do, this was and is a private message and should not have been copied to a public thread, the girl had already asked for the first thread she started to be deleted and I did that. A private message is a private message even from someone who had only been her for a day, you didn't have to reply to it or you could have replied publicly without quoting her and still expressed your disapproval. As it is I won't delete this thread.
Its only right to name and shame if its personal abuse in my opinion but online etiquette is a developing skill set that we can all fall foul of sometimes.
Prior to this Private Message being openly discussed on the forum, the young lady had actually posted a thread in the forum. She got a curt reply from @graham59, rightly so IMO. However a request was then actioned to delete the thread, which was honoured. I have anonymised the girls identity now but as Jim has stated it won't be deleted. In actuality I should have anonymised the initial thread but left it as a stark reminder of what people will do in order to circumvent the plethora of rules of which we all adhere to. Not the first time that a PM has been posted in the open forum, of which I'm sure @Markham recalls. A PM is just that, private. I have copied a PM onto the open forum with the express permission of the person who PM'd me in the first instance and for their benefit as I could not directly answer their question.
In my defence, Paul, I would like to point-out that I was left with no option. The forum software did not present me with a reply box at the foot of her message as this screen capture clearly shows: Not to reply to her message at all would have been plain rude. I quoted her message in full for two reasons: firstly not to do so would have provide no context for the various points I made in my answer and, secondly, like yourself, I wished to highlight the fact that some are prepared to do anything to circumvent immigration law and their actions do cost law-abiding applicants and sponsors in real money terms. If I could have sought her permission or warned her that I intend to answer her questions in public (so that others may learn from the answers), I would have. But I couldn't, the forum software wouldn't let me.
There is no blame in me tagging you in my last post, I'm merely suggesting that we (collectively) could of handled it better. I pointed out my initial mistake when she requested for the thread to be deleted (I should have anonymised at that point). I actually deleted both hers and Grahams post within the thread and I should have deleted the entire thread (nothing would have been visible by normal users at that point anyhow). Jim seen the post and deleted the thread about 25 minutes later. If the reply button wasn't working then a new PM to her would have resolved that problem simply enough. I will look at why you couldn't respond. I'm guessing it's a newbies permissions but that in reality shouldn't affect you ability to reply.
I wasn't blaming anyone, Paul! I think it's entirely possible she checked the "lock conversation" option: