visit visa for a child

[john sergison]

merry christmas all

just want to run this past you incase anyone has any experience of it,

has any one tried to get a visit visa for a 15 year old girl to come to UK for holiday.

i know the problems of adults trying to get one, i was only thinking to invite the cousin of my daughter to come for holiday when the philippine schools are closed, but dont know if i will still get the negative attitude from visa department

[grahamw48]

She will not be permitted to leave the Philippines unless accompanied by an adult close relative anyway.

PS. Merry Xmas to you too.

[joebloggs]

i dont think your daughters cousin can apply for a family visit visa it would have to be a general visit visa, as always its worth applying as the cost is low, but as always its a gamble.

[john sergison]

She will not be permitted to leave the Philippines unless accompanied by an adult close relative anyway.

PS. Merry Xmas to you too.

why is this graham? unaccompanied is allowed most countries, is this just a philippine rule/law, is it written down somewhere and last of all hehe did you try yourself only to discover this.

thank mate

[grahamw48]

It has to do with anti-people trafficking laws John.

Not all countries are as liberal as we are in the UK (remember...no Divorce in the Phils either. Apart from the Vatican City, the only country in the world not to permit it).

Yes, I've experienced the frustration of these regulations when we wanted to send my step-daughter (then 13) home from the Phils back to the UK...where she'd already lived for 4 years with a settlement visa.
Her mum had already gone on ahead to sort out our house in the UK.

Imagine our annoyance when her mum had to return the Phils purely to accompany her daughter on the plane.

It would have been possible, but involved a long drawn out process with lots of forms, proofs and messing about. In the end it was easier for her mum just to come and collect her.

In the case of our British passport-holder son, there was no problem him returning to the UK unaccompanied...which he did aged 9 years, because he had a BRITISH passport, so the Phils authorities had no jurisdiction over him.

For the current options open to to you...information here:

http://www.dswd.gov.ph/faqs/travel-c...ce-for-minors/

[john sergison]

thanks for all that info graham but i think bollex to all that already been through enough getting my wife and daughter here same as so many others on here, guess she will just miss out on the experience now, thanks again

It has to do with anti-people trafficking laws John.

Not all countries are as liberal as we are in the UK (remember...no Divorce in the Phils either. Apart from the Vatican City, the only country in the world not to permit it).

Yes, I've experienced the frustration of these regulations when we wanted to send my step-daughter (then 13) home from the Phils back to the UK...where she'd already lived for 4 years with a settlement visa.
Her mum had already gone on ahead to sort out our house in the UK.

Imagine our annoyance when her mum had to return the Phils purely to accompany her daughter on the plane.

It would have been possible, but involved a long drawn out process with lots of forms, proofs and messing about. In the end it was easier for her mum just to come and collect her.

In the case of our British passport-holder son, there was no problem him returning to the UK unaccompanied...which he did aged 9 years, because he had a BRITISH passport, so the Phils authorities had no jurisdiction over him.

For the current options open to to you...information here:

http://www.dswd.gov.ph/faqs/travel-c...ce-for-minors/