Quote Originally Posted by lizaphil View Post
I have know my B/F now for 2 years.
We are now married as of 8th April 2007 in the Philippines.
(he is now living in Makati with me in our house)
He wants me to visit UK but I am afraid that i will not like it there.
We never want to live there anyway, just visit his relatives for approx 2/3 months every year.
Uk is a nice place no reason to be afraid,

Now we are married we can apply for a spouse visa, BUT thats 50,000 peso, and IF i dont like it in the UK its a waste of money, and it takes 5/6 months to get (email from UKVACS verified that)
It only takes 3 months, and 100% of the members here got there visa in just a month without any interview



So we are thinking that IF we apply for a tourist/visitors visa for 6 monhs AND IF I like it in the UK THEN we can apply for a
'Certificate of Approval' from UKVISA and then we can get married in the UK and apply for me to stay for 2 years.
We are NOT 'Cheap Charlies' but it seems a waste of money if I do NOT like it there.
You will like here for sure

What I want to know is this
Has anyone on here done this before, travel to the UK on a visitors visa then decide to get married and apply for a marriage visa when in the UK??
Can it be that simple as this link suggests??
http://www.iasuk.org/C2B/document_tr...D=298&CatID=26

Thanks everyone for you advise


I've never heard a couple yet who applied visitors visa and remarried again in UK. Instead what they do is they applied spouse visa after they sort all of their papers in Phils. If i were you just go for spouse visa! im sure you have loads of evidence to proved!