Somtimes life is not so good

[IainBusby]

One other thing I have confirmed is that the British Embassy will no longer make any comment or provide any advice in relation to Visa's of any kind, I tried to sneak a question in relating to visa's when I sent the email a couple of weeks back and the reponse was absolutely no advice on visa's, you have to go through VFS Global at http://www.vfs-uk-ph.com.

Yeah is that not really crazy?

They have just deliberately deferred any kind of real help untill you get refused, so Iain's suggestion of asking them in advance if in principal after getting married in Korea, would they, all other things being ok, issue a visa without a Philippine CENOMAR on the basis of us getting married in Korea or would they still require her to comply with Philippine law because she is Filipino and is applying from the Phils, won't work.

If you can't ask them any real questions in advance of a refusal, it's a bloody big step to decide to go ahead and get married in Korea?

I had sort of asked a question relating to Ana's divorce document and our existing supporting documents for my daughters passport application (pretty much the same requirements) to see if that would be be enough for a fiancée visa and the response was flat 'we cannot talk about visa's'.

Basically there does not appear to be anywhere that you can ask that kind of 'What if?" question, unless I've missed something on the vfa site?

Better to be refused a fiancée visa than to be refused a spouse visa at least you still have options left in the fiancée case

Jim

If you can't speak to the monkey then try to speak to the organ grinder, contact the UKBA here in the UK, point out that the embassy in Phils is refusing to give advice on the matter and that it is not the sort of thing that their agents, VFS Global could give you an answer about, because only an ECO could give you accurate advice about this sort of thing.

If you can't get anywhere with them then get your MP to write to them....... They will give him or her a definitive answer.

You may think that your situation is absolutely unique, but given that Philippines law is (because of religion) so out of step with the rest world in only recognising divorces if the Filipino party involved did not instigate the divorce, I'm sure this situation has come up before from time to time and I'm sure that UKBA can give you an answer based on previous similar applications or maybe even based on previous appeal outcomes.

Iain.