visa

[Terpe]

Bearing in mind this visa rejection has to be by law, disclosed on the new visa application.

No getting away from it....there is a question about failed applications.

What you say is true, but I don't think hawk or anyone else needs to be overly concerned about a refusal of visit visa.
Plenty of people get refused on visit visa before applying for settlement visa.
It should have no impact as each application is judged on it's own merits.