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In July 2008, you applied for a visitor visa as you stated at the time of this application that you intended to stay in the UK for two months. Your application was successful and your visa was issued. You arrived in the UK 5 August 2008 and departed UK 12 January 2009. You claimed that you would stay in the UK for two months, yet you stayed in the UK for almost six months. Your application provides no explanation regarding how almost six months in the UK without earning any income.

You have been back in the Philippines for several weeks and you again intend to return to the UK for at least two months. This means in a period of ten months, you will have spent eight months living in the UK on a visitor visa- this equates to spending 80% of your time in the UK on a visitor visa.

Due to the Above, I am not satisfied that you are genuinely seeking entry to the UK as a visitor

the maximum you can spend is 6 months on any one trip in the uk, thou i don't think law, but could be policy of the HO, and many Immigration officers think you should not spend more than 6 months in any one year in the uk, so that's one of the main reasons for refusal, and because of this, as mentioned in your refusal letter they are not satisfied your coming as a visitor.

also when you said you was coming for 2 months, and you provided evidence that your sister could support you for that time, that's what the case worker based his decision on, the evidence at that time, and you staying 6 months would have need far more financial evidence, so they suspect you could have been working

no way 95% of appeals are won, that depends on the reason for refusal and the evidence you have, more like 45% are won if that.

and no i don't think the HO would care about your sister going thru a divorce, to them it's not the most compelling compassionate circumstances

good luck, i'm not sure you would be successful, but you never know