This is true when it comes to visitors visas and no matter how strongly the sponsor presents the case, the visa is ultimatly for the visitor. There is even a section on a website somewhere that says that a visa refusal is not because the sponsor's integrity is being questioned and it really is about wheather the visitor will return to the Philippines.Originally Posted by benb
5 weeks of waiting!
Being a sponsor does not really help.
If she has no job, no savings, no assets at all, then the ECO is obliged to reject the Visa on the principle that the visitor has no reason to return. This is a very "assuming" process, but, it is based on ECO experience that there are visitors to the UK who don't return, and then remain illegally. The ECO therefore has to be VERY carefull.
I wish you success in your appeal,
