un married partner visa

Assuming you plan to marry?

Yes.. Though you would need to go through the fiance visa route and that means you must marry within six months of entering the UK.

One of the main concerns of the Government with unmarried partners is the lack of a binding commitment; because of this the fiance visa route is much more difficult to prove a relationship than a spouse visa (as the two people are already married). One of the things the UKBA look at is whether or not the relationship (or marriage) is a sham! This is one of the reasons why they will soon be announcing changes to the family migration route for visas to the UK soon (probably June).

Assuming you don't have plans to marry.. Yes, you can still apply, as you have been living together for the last two years as if you were married (again, assuming). And there is the kicker, the burden of proof lies on you both to prove the relationship is genuine.

Before you start making plans though, I would suggest you wait until the changes to the visas get announced (they are supposed to come into effect in June). The Government are considering some very draconian rules regarding supporting a partner, spouse or even family.

If you are only coming to the UK for 6 months, why not consider a tourist visa?

Pop out the country to where? Given that it is not easy for Filipino's to get visa's for anywhere in the west where would they pop out to, it would require another visa would it not?

I'm not trying to be awkward, I'm actually very interested in this unmarried partner visa thing, somehow over the years I thought the civil partner was somehow restricted to same sex partners, I've not read the UKBA pages in detail yet but as I said I am very interested.

The visit visa would be a good idea if it was granted which would depend on whether they would consider tiger's finances as well as his partners but I would probably expect them to require him to be the sponsor and then they would look at his partners financial background before they decided to grant a visit visa and then of course there is still the issue of popping out to another country.

I'm sure it would be, maybe Scotland should get independence and a border then we would offer service like that (and I could move back home ).

So without me going and looking it up I take that Norway is Filipino friendly?

It is going to get tougher to bring partners here on a visit visa...

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/2012/may/28-family-appeal

Tiger, I have two kids and a partner that I have supported for 7 years now, we spent well over 450 days together during that time in both the UK and the Phils (she is dual national Filipino-Korean and can visit UK for 6 months on free visit visa anyway), I have a ton of evidence of proof of relationship but I never went this route.

I was vaguely aware of this visa but I thought at one point from the info on UKBA that the visa applied only to same sex couples, clearly it is broader than that, so I am very interested, for various reasons it has been impossible for me and my partner to marry until recently but I am also not that stuck on the marriage thing and neither is my partner, to all intents and purposes we are married already apart from the bit of paper.

If it is possible to apply to bring the kids as well on an unmarried partner visa then I really need to look into this as my son is only Filipino but my daughter is already British with a Brit passport (UK law change between the births).

As Kuya says I expect this will be a very difficult route and you are likely to need a lot of proof of relationship, shared bills and shared address that kind of thing and also a good coherent story to tell them I suspect it won't be easy.

Hey, Jimmy....

Looky here what I found.....

Darn......... Lost the relevant link.......


But got another one............ From the horses mouth, this time........