Help: Wife's visit visa not stamped on arrival

[Welsh_Italian]

Hello folks,

My wife, daughter and I decided to spend a few months back in blighty so she got a visit visa while in the Phils. No worries.

We arrived a few weeks ago at Gatwick airport but her passport & visa was not stamped. We know that it should be because it was on her previous visit and my daughter's Filipino passport was also stamped (she has dual nationality).

So we need to get my wife's passport stamped properly to prevent problems upon leaving.

This is where I need the help - who the bloody hell do I talk to to get this resolved?

I've tried the Border Agency website (useless unless you're here on a visit visa), but all phone numbers only go to answering machine that only deal with migration or settlement; or emails that return only canned responses about migration or settlement).

Any advice or a human contact in the Border Agency would be welcome.

[joebloggs]

i'm not so sure they check everyone's passport on leaving, thou London airports the chances do increase.. as long as your wife leaves before her visa expires, what could the problem be?

but surely your wife must have came after her visa was issued, also i believe UKBA has access to passenger manifesto(s) of all flights arriving / departing from the UK (e-Borders).

maybe check with an immigration officer atthe airport before you leave the UK

[johncar54]

We are arrived in EU at Frankfurt. They did not put an entry stamp in my wife's passport, as we were travelling onto Malaga. At Malaga, although we asked they said no problem just go the police station the next week to register. When we did that they asked where the entry to EU stamp was !!!!

Back to Malaga airport. They said it had to stamped where she had first arrived in EU.

Fortunately I speak reasonable Spanish and had worked as a volunteer translator with the Spanish police. I eventually managed to get them to stamp the passport.

[RickyR]

Does she remember if the passport was swiped by the immigration officer upon entry? If so, she is recorded as entering the country anyway. When she leaves she will not need to pass through immigration, but the airlines will share pax manifasts with immigration who record all arrival and departures.

Should be no problem at all.