Quote Originally Posted by sars_notd_virus View Post
Thanks a lot Iain!!! i'd love to apply for a settlement visa straight away but me and my hubby wants to pay respect to his nan's request before she expires coz shes already 98yo,she wants to see her grandsons new family in real so thats why am applying for a family visitor visa for 2mos with the kids then come back to philippines and arrange all loads of paperworks for my settlement visa....
My question is ...do i also need to get a sponsor letter from his nan,mum or bro? as he only own in a flat with one bedroom his bro got 4bedrooms for our accomodation? need to meet with his family they were so loverly esp his nan thats why i need to fill up the right form this month and fly over there and meet em..thanks!!! would love to here ur replies here
cheers!!
I think that if you had a well assembled application stating where you were all going to stay whilst in the UK and how you would all be supported financially, also explaining the reasons for your Family Visit Visa application at this stage and that that you fully intend to return to the Philippines and apply for a settlement visa at a later stage when your husband has sorted out the issue of family accomodation in the long term, then I can't think why the ECO would not see this as perfectly acceptable.

The main thing is that you should avoid giving any impression that you are trying to circumvent the normal process of applying for a settlement visa because of issues with regard to sole responsibility of the children and I think that you should submit evidence of this as part of your application. The reason I say this is that the ECO will probably conclude that there is unlikely to be any reason other than accomodation why you (married to a British citizen) would not be given a spouse visa, but issues surrounding the childrens paternity which would not normally be scrutinised for a visit visa, may be looked at more closely. The other thing that the ECO may want to consider is, are you trying to circumvent the normal process because of your husbands accomodation problems.

Iain.