Quote Originally Posted by Englishman2010 View Post
I'm hoping that by sending copies of my own flight schedules to the Philippines for Aug/Sept 2010 and Dec 2010/Jan 2011, they will realise that the window for her coming here is Oct/Nov 2010, and will also realise that I am not going to waste money booking a flight in Dec/Jan if I am not planning to go back there to see her. Therefore, she will return home at the end of November.

We'll see how it goes now, and if it is still refused it's not the end of the world. As per my other thread, hopefully she will have a job at a call centre soon anyway. Give it another 6 months or so, and providing her employer will allow her time off for 4 - 8 weeks, it might be far easier as there should be a genuine reason for her to return home.

That's my logic, but no guarantee the officer at the Embassy will see it that way.
The problem with your logic is they show what you are thinking (assuming the flights aren't refundable), but they don't show what your girlfriend is thinking. And it's her intentions that are important.

Work can help getting a visa. But compare what she will earn in a call centre in manila to what Filipinos think they can earn working illegally in London and you will realise why it won't guarantee a tourist visa on it's own.