18 Year Old Wanting To Stay In Uk

We would be her guardians whilst she was here

You cant be her 'guardian' if she is 18... she is an adult.

Her options are:

1.  enter as a tourist -- she can stay for up to 6 months, but will need to show that she has financial support during that time.  She cannot work (or volunteer), stay here longer than 6 months, or enrol in university during that time.

2.  enter on a student visa -- she'll be able to work up to 20 hours per week as a student.  Note that a student visa is not for permanent settlement -- when she's finished studying, she'll need to leave the UK unless she secures a work permit or is engaged/married to a UK citizen (with the appropriate visas/paperwork) at that time.  She'll need to look into financing her studies as international students pay higher fees.

Basically, you don't come into the equation at all.  You aren't related to her.  You can't adopt her or be her guardian or employ her.  You just happen to know her -- it's her job to find a way to get over here (see options 1 and 2 above). 

Again, I ask, why are you so desperate to get her over here? 

Not only why does he want to get her over here, but WHY does he keep asking the same question 12 different ways

Thank you very much for your information it is valued, hope Im not to much of a pain. I will look into it further.

You#re welcome, but you're not going to find any different answers no matter how many times you ask it: student or visitor.  That's. It.

We are basically trying to help someone that is it. As far as being desperate that is not the case we are simply trying to help someone.

Regards

Thank you very much for your information it is valued, hope Im not to much of a pain. I will look into it further.

There is no "further".  She can come for up to 6 months as a tourist or she can come over for university.  Based on everything you've told us (why isn't she here researching her options???), there are no other options for her.

Whatever you do, do NOT allow her to come here as a tourist under the impression that she can stay forever.  If she overstays, that falls on her, not you, so keep that in mind.

Hmpf.

You sound desperate.  You've started 3 or 4 different threads asking how to get this girl over here.  WHY does she want to come to the UK?  Why isn't she on UKY asking about visas?  Why do you refuse to accept that she can't get here as anything other than a tourist or student?

Perhaps I'm reading too much into it, but it just seems like a very strange situation.

Once again thank you for all your help.

It's commendable that you're being so helpful, but immigration is not an easy path.  The "free world" isn't free; countries don't want immigrants unless they have something to offer society.  An unskilled 18 year old woman has very little to offer-we can grow our own over here, thanks, they're called chavs. 

Unfortunate, but that is the way it is.  And it's not going to change no matter which way you word the question.

If the girl has access to the internet, please send her to UKY.  I think she needs to see her options spelled out for her.

Whatever you do, do NOT allow her to come here as a tourist under the impression that she can stay forever.  If she overstays, that falls on her, not you, so keep that in mind.

Also keep in mind that the tourist visa doesn't guarantee ANYONE entry to stay for a full 6 months.  If Immigration is in any way suspicious, they reserve the right to question the person AND send them home if they feel the person is taking not being truthful or intending not to leave in the time frame.

She is living with her adoptive parents who are not looking after her and are not interested in her, they are basically treating her as a skivy. It is abuse. She is asking us as a cry for help. That is it, she had no other family members she can turn to. We have been speaking to her for sometime and even though we are not blood relatives calls us mom n dad. So were are doing our very best to help her, she says she wants to come here and thats it.

Well, she can't.  And you'd be better served by pointing her to social services in the US that can help her; as an adult, she is free to walk out of that situation any time she wants.

She's 18.  She doesn't have to stay with her adoptive parents.  Does she work?  Is she going to school?  Has she been to the UK before?  Have you met in person?