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Others have alluded to this (Rob thanks for the invite into this thread), my advice to you, is to slow down a little and take stock of your situation, firstly address each issue you face before talking about your girl coming to UK to work and send her parents money to save the house they are about to have foreclosed.

The Chances are, you will not be able to help her out in this predicament in the short term, what will happen will happen, firstly, it concerns me that some girl that lets be honest, you have not met as yet, is concerned with coming to UK to work so that she can get together 7 grand to send for them, its not in my view a great start to a relationship.

The other point that Rob and others have made, is that as yet you have not formally met this lady, your first task then is to do so, that will involve you in considerable costs, you also mention recently starting in self employment, if you have only been running abusiness for 1 month, this is insufficient to show entry clearance officers that you could support a foreign national with recourse to public funds.

It is likely that if that is all the financial evidence you would supply, your girls application would be refused, my advice stands, dont try that one as yet.

If however you were previously employed, and have a good history of work, with payslips, then I see no reason why you cant use those, you only have to satisfy entry clearance officers that your girl will not represent a burden on the state.

Thirdly, you mention having your girl come over to UK to see if she likes it on a tourist visa ?

So lets assume she gets granted a tourist visa, not impossible, but hardly likely, for reasons you will find in other threads on this forum, if you use as Keith has suggested to others the search function, so lets asume she is lucky enough to get one, what happens if she says "I dont like it in UK" "I want to go home" ? so what happens then, does she go back and you stay here in UK, I promise you, that can work, but rarely does, some Filipinas try that one, and have their foreign BF sending money, thats all very well for her, but for you, its not worth having a GF 6000 miles away, it serves no purpose, she would have to have compelling reasons to return home at the end of a 6 month tourist visa, most probably have at least 3000 US Dollars in her account, and a good employed position in the Philippines.

You could have her apply for a fiancee visa, but as others have said, you must marry within 6 months, if you decide not to marry, she can overstay of course, many on tourist visas, do exactly that, we cannot condone that on this forum, since those on fiancee visas, have no need of being overstayers, since they came to get married anyway.

As for employing her in your business, Keith is right you could do so, but not on the basis of a work permit, your GF is not from the EU, so thats out of the question, as Keith quite rightly points out, she could be employed by you, but only cash in hand, as during first 6 months of any fiancee visa, she is not entitled to work, only when she is granted FLR, she can then work.

You have alot to think about, not least, her predicament of having her parents foreclosed, extrajudicially from their home, which I presume is on in house financing or bank financing or something similar to that, that is a big peice of baggage you do not need in your relationship.

My advice to you is to think very carefully about your ladies motives for wanting to come to UK, if it simply to make money, reading between the lines, that appears to me to be a very significant factor, and it wont go away, it will be come a source of conflict for you and she.

Best wishes.

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