Hi< I Need Desprate Advice

[darren-b]

Thank you all for your very honest and sometimes scary answers to my question. My girlfriends emplotes are aware of her status here in the UK, and therefore, they are putting their selves in danger of maybe priosecution if she was discovered. She has been in this country for 4 yrars, and honestly her visa was for 6 months. I met her 2 years ago, but, I dont want to lose her for 1 minuate. I would do any thing now to keep her here, but the advice you guys have given me is kid of scary, and makes me want to stay as far away from the border police as possible. Is there any chance i could marry her here, will it make a difference f she has a child to me as we are trying. And when i say she has given so much this counrty ecomically, she has worked with of the elderly who sufer alzheimers. I do know there is no easy way, but I wish there were. Thank you guys all the same, we're in a very dificul situation.

Whether you are married (assuming somewhere will marry you) or have kids doesn't make that much different, an overstayer will have difficulty trying to legalise their stay here without leaving the UK.

The advice given on here (return to the Philippines, get married there, apply for spouse visa) is your easiest way, and assuming you meet the rest of the requirements (accomodation, financial, etc) you have a very good chance of success even if you get stopped on the way out.

If you want to attempt an in country application you need to find yourself a good immigration advisor (which won't be cheap...).

[Plonker]

As most people have said its best for her to go back to Philippines then to marry her there, your situation is very much like mine. Cause my wife was overstayed in Japan by 2 years. So the only way for us to be together was for her to return to Philippines. But she had heard that if she surrended her self to the immigration police then the boarder of immigration will be lenient with her and give her a certain amount of time to get back to Philippines without detaining her in an immigration prison. In our case it was 2 weeks to get back. I'm pretty sure that the British immigration aren't that much different to Japanese system.

Were now married and shes here next month So the futures bright for you too.

I think if she went back now and handed her self in she would be deported with in a matter of days or weeks, then you go out over there to marry her which will take about 11 days, cause you need to give 10 days notice to the registry/city hall in her area to marry her, also you will need to convert your British cni to a Philippine version which took us 15 minutes at the British Embassy. Then the rest is sorting out a wedding if you go down that route like reception, brides dress etc, etc. Then wait for your marriage contract, BUT, heres the but, we didn't wait for the marriage contract on nso cause we knew its takes months to get, so we applied for a secpa which took 2 days. Secpa is a certificate notifying that your marriage contract is being processed. So we used that to apply for the entry clearance spouse visa along with a 500 page supporting documents which took me 3 months to sort out but this was done before I went out to marry her, believe me its worth doing the supporting documents before you go and marry because in the Philippines postal system is so slow. Your better off carrying it with you on the plane so when you guys are married you can apply for a spouse visa asap.

I'm sure you and your love will be together within the space of 4 months. Which sounds long but it will all be over soon and you can be with her forever. Also you will get to see Philippines which is great.

Basically just do it by the book dont skip a few pages.