Hi Dave, I followed your post in another thread about you applying for your visitor visa, but then it went quiet and didnt say if you got it, so here I found out you didn't -sorry. We did the exact same thing, I had to fly my girl from Davao to Manila to submit the documents so cost us a bit, still refused visitor visa on the usual of "no real reason to return" - even submitted letters from her employer and her bank, so then applied for fiancee visa, costs billion times more but granted in 3 weeks, now she is here, married last July and FLR granted now.

I think I watched too many "Border patrol" programmes on TV and sent half a rain forest of paper documentation to them. (I did have a question about the English test which by chance I was working inside the UKBA here in UK as a engineer but they didnt know the answer to my question ! (well they did but it was the wrong answer I found out) I hope you can work it out - I love my Filipino wife, she is next to me now chatting away on skype to her friend from the baker shop next to where she lived, happy times! Good Luck - Baz and Jaz