I was woken at 5am this morning with some very good news, my 20 year old brother-in-law has just been granted a visitors visa for a 6 month visit to the U.K.
He was refused his first application before Christmas because of confusion over his status as a visitor or worker and we decided not to appeal but make a fresh application and all went well.
My thanks to Graham at the British Embassy, for his consideration of the application.
Got to do some work now arranging a ticket.
Peter
By the way Pete, part of your answer above is wrong. In all our applications for a family visit we have sponsored and sent proof of adequate funds to support the visitor and this goes in with the application.