hi,i have a serious problem that needs to be resolved a.s.a.p.
my wife has just been refused her U.K. visa for the second time and we only have until 10th june to appeal against the decission.
first a little background information.
i visited cebu in feb 2006 to meet a girl who contacted me in cherry blossoms website,when i arrived she introduced me to her half sister who was older than her,and as soon as i met her half sister i realised that i may have been to hasty in choosing a partner.
anyway putting that to the back of my mind carried on my relationship with the younger sister.
well to cut a very long story short we applied for a fiance visa and within 5 weeks was successful in obtaining.
she arrived in the u.k. end of february 2006 but as soon as she arrived her charecter changed completely leading up to the day that she told me that she was already married to a guy from singapore !!
i immediately arranged for her to return to cebu and she did on 23rd march 2006,on the 24th i emailed the embassy and informed them of the reason,quoted her ref number and passport no.and told them that she would not be returning to U.K.
well in april 2006 her half sister contacted me enquiring about our relationship and i explained in detail what had happened,and she said how sorry she was,well one thing leaded to another and we were talking on the phone,emailing,and chatting on yahoo for about 4 hours every day.
i found that we had a lot in common with each other she is 33 and no children same as me but i am older 49 with no children this all leaded up to me proposing to her on may29th 2006 she accepted and i flew out in july and was married on 7th august 2006.
i returned to the U.K. on the 8th and from that day have been in contact every single day.
i returned and spent a fantastic christmas with her from 23rd dec 06-7th jan 07,and in that time had discussed renovating her home in cebu and her small business so that when i take early retirement i will move to cebu and spend the rest of my life with her,maybe expanding her business to be able to support us both.
This is where our problem started because of the delay in obtaining our authenticated marriage document 15 weeks,i decided for her to apply in her single name because of lack of married documents.she was asked to attend an interview in manila,and this she did on dec 5th06 and was refused on the grounds of "lack of evidence" but i had sent all my appropriate documents but still no joy.
i started appeal proceedings but soon after my wife was advised to use an agency in cebu called "Hoya air travel and tours" this we did and the visa consultant told us to change all my wif'e documents into her married name including her passport and to reaply again in her now married name.
this she did,and the agency helped her to fill in the application form .
U.K.vacs recieved the application form and was happy that it was completed correctly with all the exact documents along with evidence of my self.
well over 3 months passed and my wife was asked to attend a second interview.
Because i din't want her to go through this ordeal again on her own i flew to cebu,and we both flew to manila for her interveiw may15th last 07.
firstly i was refused entry by the security guards.
we took along over 100 wedding photographs and a comprehensive evidence of relationship folder containing,all my flight ticket stubs,western union transfers letters emails and over 50 pages of yahoo chat conversations(if i had printed out all of them it would have taken up a suitcase as it is over 1500 pages !!!)
in the interview my wife made a mistake about when our relationship started she said feb 06 that was when i first met her as a friend.
then she was asked when her half sister had returned to cebu,and she made another mistake by saying april/may this ,i think was the stumbling block as the E.C.O. could not believe that her half sister had returned home in may,and that i had proposed to her in the same month.
my wife offered him our two books of evidence and he told her it was not necessary !!! and she was refused a second time.
the refusal notice stated that she had blatantly applied for a single visa when she knew she was already married to me and could not explain why,even though this was explained in her application form.
well i have only just returned today from cebu and all the time i spent with my wife have been sending emails to the embassy pleading with them to reverse their decission,but they will not reply to me.
I hope i have not made you all fall asleep with my story,but my question is i now want to seek legal immigration advice to help us appeal this decission i know this is going to cost me but i will use my last breath to obtain my wife's visa.and will do anything to help her.can anyone please tell me of a good immigration lawyer in the U.K. that specialises in this field.
what do we have to do to succeed we are both very depressed at it all and need some help fast.
Thanks for listening
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Originally Posted by LadyJ
, sad story.. 
