leaving and returning on a fiance visa

Unfortunately my biggest fear of moving here happened the 4th day I've lived here. I arrived here in the UK on a fiance visa on Wednesday and I was just notified someone very close to me has suddenly passed away in the US.

If I decided to return home for 4-7 days, how would this effect my current and future visas? How will this effect my entrance back into the country once I return ?

I ask this because I was on a visitor visa over the summer staying with my fiance. We went to Spain for 4 days and when I returned to the UK (my visa was multi entry) the officer gave me a very hard time and told me that even though I had a visa it was still treated as a new entry and I was heavily questioned.

I am just afraid to compromise my fiance visa and future plans here if the officer finds it suspicious that I left after being here for only 4 days. I'm also afraid that when we go to apply for future visas that the officer will question why I have two UK stamps within 2 weeks of each other.

We are not married yet, we will be in March.

If anyone could provide any advice I'd appreciate it. Thank you all.

I am by no means an expert but, as long as there are no restrictions on travel with a fiance visa, there shouldn't be a problem.

I am a dual UK/US citizen who entered the UK on my US passport for a 2 week Christmas vacation (UK citizens are not required to use a UK passport, and I had let mine expire by mistake). Four days after returning to our assignment location in Asia my mother passed away and I turned around and headed back to the UK. Again I entered on a US passport, was asked why I was returning so soon and explained that there had been a death in the family. Another stamp in my passport and sympathy expressed by the IO.

I know its not the same but if you explain your situation honestly it shouldn't be a problem. If you can have some documentary proof of your reason for travel it might be a reassuring back up for you, just in case you come across an IO who is in a bad mood.

Please accept my sympathy for your situation, its hard moving transatlantically and dealing with bereavement.

A fiance visa is multiple-entry so you can leave and re-enter the UK on it as many times as you like before you are married and it will not be a problem at all.

However what you should not do is try to leave and re-enter on it after you are married, but before you apply for FLR(M), because you may not be allowed in again (you will no longer be a fiancee so technically no longer meet the requirements of the visa). You would need to wait until you have the FLR(M) before leaving again.

The reason you had trouble coming back into the UK as a visitor was because a visitor visa usually becomes invalid as soon as you leave the UK, so the IO would normally have to issue you with a brand new visa at the border when you came back in...even though your visa was multiple entry he probably felt he had to make sure you still qualified to enter as a visitor again as most visitors will only enter the UK once on their visa.

The reason you had trouble coming back into the UK as a visitor was because a visitor visa usually becomes invalid as soon as you leave the UK, so the IO would normally have to issue you with a brand new visa at the border when you came back in...even though your visa was multiple entry he probably felt he had to make sure you still qualified to enter as a visitor again as most visitors will only enter the UK once on their visa.

I don't know if that is necessarily true if you apply for and are granted a general visitor visa in advance of your trip. I would think that a person holding a multiple entry visitor visa should not have any trouble with an IO at the border as they are complying with the rules of their visa.