My girlfriend (22) has been in the uk for the last 8 years studying with her course and living expenses funded by her family, who have unfortunately fallen on bad times (divorce and cancer amongst other horrors!)
She is in her last year at a London University and then she is faced with trying to get a UK company to sponsor her visa. She has studied Media and Communications so she doesnt fall into the Skilled Worker category. If she has no luck with this she will have to return to the US and try and restart her whole life and make all new friends from scratch, she is understandably DEEPLY upset by all of this and is literally in floods of tears constantly whenever the thoughts of leaving her life behind cross her mind.
I have been with her for a little over a year but we are not living together, she (and I) are also very upset at the prospect of having to split up because of this too.
I am looking into the whole UP visa thing at the moment, she is looking at doing a follow-on course as a way to stay longer in the hope we could get to 10 years and get a UK passport but its going to be tough moneywise, any advice would be very deeply appreciated, I dont doubt that many people on here have even worse situations, my heart goes out to you all
John
