Quote Originally Posted by quickwillow View Post
hi dave

I think I can see why you were refused if you were trying for a tourist visa, maybe now your getting married it would be different ?
most tourist visa's are refused, and in many cases it's seems to be at random, people have had a job, money and property in the phils but are still refused, while some people have had nothing and been granted

so it's a bit of pot luck if you get one, thou if you apply for a family member and its refused you will have the right to appeal, and then you have a fairly good chance it will be granted at IAT hearing.

if there has been not contact with the father recently and the mother looks after the child then you shouldn't have a problem really with 'sole responsibility' and if the father is not named on the child's birth cert then your chances increase even further of getting a visa.

last thing the embassy want is to be pig in the middle btw 2 parents of a child, one who wants to take the child to the UK and the other doesn't ( for what ever reasons - sometimes jealously,wants some pay off -php )

just prepare your visa apps with what your asked and make your evidence as good as possible and you shouldn't have a problem