no bank statements

I have several clients in the situation where wife and baby are stuck in one country, unable to get a visa for the UK, and the husband is stuck in the UK, unable to get a visa to visit, and it is not a fun situation.


Vicky

It will make no difference. However, can I suggest that you perhaps rethink this?  If you have no jobs and no savings, there is a risk the application will be refused, and if you have to wait for appeal, this could mean months with your family seperated.  It might not be ideal to leave a pregnant wife in a different country from you!

Vicky

Hi vicky and everybody else who has posted good info and concerns for our situation.  Firstly I must apolgise for not having checked back here sooner.  Things have been a little crazy.  Update.  We have shelved the baby idea for now.  You are all totally right about how heartbreaking it could be to be seperated after having had a child.  Not to mention the financial burden my wife would suffer alone in the US with a child.  So, thanks for the advice.  It is appreciated.

Onto other things If that is okay?  My wife has a firm job offer with a company in the UK.  One of my best friends family own a successful business and they are happy to give her a job when we eventually arrive.  I am expecting to be offered my old job back also.  Would this go a long way to helping the application process, even based on my current financial *bleep* ups?

In answer to other posts.  My wife has lived with me in the Uk before - she did not overstay however.  She loved it and has dreamed of living in 'Ole Blighty' since she was a child.  Non the less, we are aware (both from personal experience) that homesickness can be a killer.  We look at it like this:  She can always travel back to visit anytime she wants (I, of course, can't visit the folks in the UK ot I will not be allowed to return).  We plan to have an airline ticket fund always on hand so that, should she get the heebie jeebies, she can book a flight at a moments notice.  It is not ideal of course but we feel that we are part of an exclusive club of people who met and married spouses from half the world away.  It has never been easy and we don't expect that will change.  However, we love each other and do not intend to dwell on problems that have not yet occured.  There will be plenty of time for that later on no doubt.

I hope I have answered all the relevant posts in this long and rambling message.  Again, thanks to you all and a very merry christmas. 

PS - if any americans are feeling homesick right now - DONT!!!!  It is freezing here in southwest Michigan and our furnace went out today.  Bbbrrrrrr 

A good job offer will make a huge difference to the application.

Vicky

A good job offer will make a huge difference to the application.

Vicky

Thank you for that Vicky.  I hate to be a pain but I have another question.  I also have a friend who is a private contractor.  He is a painter and decorator who only does offices and such like, not private homes.  If I were to take a job with him would it make a difference to the application?  Being that he is a one man outfit rather than a large firm I mean.  Despite this he is never out of work to the extent that he often has to turn down lucrative contracts due too having no time to do them.  Would he be required to show a copy of his accounts and things like that, or just a letter stating my pay and contract length?

We are getting very close to my leaving now and, as I see from the board, this is a time when people tend to get nervy.  So please forgive my ignorance thus far.

Many thanks

Again, a job offer can only help.

Victoria