A question for visitor visa.....

Say there is someone who has lived in the UK legit for a while  (over 5 years) but gets sent home as her visa expired.  She has bank accounts etc.  She comes back on the 6 month visitor visa.  So say someone gets hassled a LOT at immigration about coming over on a 6 month visa and purpose of their visit and all that.  They make it through, but barely.......

Say this person goes, and on her 6 month visa, works.  Earns.  Breaking the 6 month visitor visa rules.

When immigration 'flags' them for the questioning etc.....do they flag things like financials tied to it?  I mean, how do they know that she's breaking the visa?


This is not someone i know closely, someone i've heard a colleague speaking about BUT i know how serious this is and i would like some cold hard facts to tell them about this......to stress how bad it really is.

It si possible that they have recorded her details from he landing card and have earmarked her for a visit...it certainly happens.

If she wants to stay here long term it's not worth the risk.  And if she has been here legitimately for 5 years already, the chances are she could get here legitimately again.  Sounds to me as if she is being a bit silly.

Vicky

a visit, like they may go check on her?

i know, i don't really understand.  she speaks 6 languages and went to school here and then worked.  i'm not sure how they just up and booted her!

What do you mean 'up and booted her'?  Do you mean that at the end of her first five years she was removed?  And now she has come back as a visitor and is working illegally?  Oh dear, what a silly girl!

Yeah, they might go and check on her, you never know.  It's unlikely, but it's possible.


Vicky

well she wasn't deported or anything.  her visa ran out and she didn't do anything to get another kind and left!

still, it's silly.