Hi! I am glad I found this forum! I see it very helpful to a lot of people who wants to know about life in UK and Philippines and everything in general. I am in a situation now where I don't know what to do and I am going to share my experience, maybe people from here will be able to help me think for what is right to do...this is my problem.
You wish to visit your UK-based partner, Mr. X, for a period of 3 months. On your application form you have stated you are unemployed and your sponsor financially supports you here by remitting money to you. You have submitted a letter with your application in which u state that Mr. X visited you in Philippines in June 2011 and that following business is not yet earning income but cite the business as a reason why you leave the UK. However, I find it less than credible that you leave a fledging business for 3 months in order to take a holiday. I do not find it credible that you should leave a fledging business for 3 months and this leads me to doubt the business is viable of any great importance to you and it would appear it has been set up merely to give impression you have something to return to here. You clearly have strong emotional ties to your sponsor who lives permanently in the UK and on whom you are financially reliant and I am not therefore satisfied you are genuinely seeking entry only for the purpose or period stated. 41(i)(ii)
I made a letter with additional more documents yet I am still refused for the 2nd time.
2nd refusal was just the same but @ the bottom of it says I have assesses your new application afresh and considered all the supporting documents you have submitted. However there appears to be no change in your personal circumstances since your last refusal. You have failed to provide any evidence to address the reasons for refusal above and therefore your personal circumstance in Philippines combined with your financial dependence on your sponsor does not provide any sufficient motivation for you to leave the UK at the end of your proposed visit.
So I made a letter of consideration and this are just part of it, correct me if I am wrong pls. Your comments and suggestions will be very much appreciated.
Answer to the reasons of refusal.
I would like to make an appeal for a RECONSIDERATION of my application for visit visa together with the letter from my partner who is sponsoring my trip to UK, with regards to the refusal letter that I just received yesterday. Whilst I may not have met your specific criteria, I would like to appeal for RECONSIDERATION because I feel I have underlying facts that may make you reconsider. Please spend a few moments looking at the additional information attached with my appeal. I was surprised that it is stated in my recent refusal that I have failed to provide any evidence to address the reasons for refusal. With all due respect Sir/Madam, I supposed I have clearly submitted substantial vital piece of evidences like my first Business Permit with the official receipts from local government that will show that I have had my business even prior to meeting my partner, with a letter to explain the additional documents I presented addressing your concerns in your first refusal of my application. But with all humility, I am taking this chance to hopefully be able to clearly address again your concern with more additional evidences to support my genuine intention to visit my partner and my earnest desire to come back here in the Philippines at the end of my proposed visit.
*** As I have stated in my previous letter that I have started my business last October 2010, 2 months prior to meeting my partner online and 8 months prior to his visit here in the Philippines. If u can recheck the Business Permit that I submitted to you on my first application, it is shown there that RENEWAL on top of the Business Permit. I actually opened my business last October 2010 with the Business Permit I sent to you dated October 1, 2010 and my supporting documents such as the 1st Business Permit, receipts of the purchases of the items that was displayed in my home based small shop. And some more receipts of the furniture and other office stuffs I bought for the set up of my business. Trust receipts signed by my customers and agents in every transaction done. Those receipts will show that my business has been operating since October 2010 up to the present. Those official receipts from the government offices for the payments I have made for getting the permits and taxes. And I also stated that I only told you that I started the business last June 2011 because that’s the only time I have my Business Name on the Business Permit when I renewed it that month. I am sorry for my unpredictable negligence, I have fully misunderstood the thing that I read from one of the websites online that visa applicant with business must submit a Business Permit with its name on it. I didn’t realize that it is the ownership of the business which is important not the business name. I do not have any reason for me to hide from you when I actually started my business if only I have fully understood the requirements of submitting a Business Permit. All the documents I submitted about my business are all official and legal.
Do u think this will help? well I am being honest, it was really an honest mistake.
Thanks for your time reading my long post. I am just confused and worrying.
