Visitor Visa Not Approved

[complex]

Hello everyone
I'm a new member, just signed up tonight sitting in my hotel room in Manila with my Filipina gf by my side seeking advice on this very subject and am sad to read this thread, as I feel our circumstances are similar at this moment, we had been trying to decide whether to apply for the Visitors Visa in the next few days and was really coming hear hoping to find out how long you have to wait for the interview after applying, but after reading Craig's case, makes me think we will get refused also as my Filipina is currently unemployed and has no real money of her own!
I was only hoping to bring her to London to see how she likes life in the UK before possibly applying for a fiancee visa in the future.

So can others confirm that if your loved one has very little money and or also unemployed that you have next to no chance of being successful in your visa application, and when applying for a fiancee Visa does anyone know if financial status applies there?

Thanks for any help, Hope your successful Craig!

[Sim11UK]

Hello everyone
I'm a new member, just signed up tonight sitting in my hotel room in Manila with my Filipina gf by my side seeking advice on this very subject and am sad to read this thread, as I feel our circumstances are similar at this moment, we had been trying to decide whether to apply for the Visitors Visa in the next few days and was really coming hear hoping to find out how long you have to wait for the interview after applying, but after reading Craig's case, makes me think we will get refused also as my Filipina is currently unemployed and has no real money of her own!
I was only hoping to bring her to London to see how she likes life in the UK before possibly applying for a fiancee visa in the future.

So can others confirm that if your loved one has very little money and or also unemployed that you have next to no chance of being successful in your visa application, and when applying for a fiancee Visa does anyone know if financial status applies there?

Thanks for any help, Hope your successful Craig!

Join the club mate. We're all in, or have been in this situation.
You can try for a visit visa if you want to, but in your situation & like most others, it will likely be refused.
Go for the fiancee visa & she will have 6 months in the UK, to see if she likes it here. Bear in mind, you also need to marry within this time too.

Alternatively marry her in the Phils & bring her back, on a spouse visa.

These are your best 2 options.

A word of advice, it's best you start your own thread, when seeking answers.

Anyway, welcome here & Good luck!
There are lots of people on here, with sound knowledge.

[darren-b]

So can others confirm that if your loved one has very little money and or also unemployed that you have next to no chance of being successful in your visa application, and when applying for a fiancee Visa does anyone know if financial status applies there?

Thanks for any help, Hope your successful Craig!

Money and employment of the applicant are only two of the factors that are considered. They can help, but people do get visas granted without them (and people with them do get refused...).

You've got very little to lose by applying for a visitor visa (apart from ~£65 and a bit of time...) though be prepared for it to be refused.

Joint financial status applies when applying for a fiancee visa - if you have enough money to support the pair of you in the UK for at least 6 months then your fiancee's financial status is irrelevant.

[joebloggs]

my Filipina is currently unemployed and has no real money of her own!

Visitor visa is a bit of a lottery, some people have got one with little money or no job, while many have been refused who had money, property and a job..

but most are refused with the classic excuse ' i am not satisfied that you have demonstrated, on the balance of probabilities, sufficiently strong family, social or economic ties to satisfy me that you intend to leave the United Kingdom on completion of your visit'