Our visa pitfalls

[Arthur Little]

As promised this is how our visa went from start to finish.
September We applied for a spouse visa for my wife recieved a text a couple of weeks later saying that they were returning her documents. We thought that this was the visa but instead we got a refusal letter.
October 15 They got our appeal. The reasons why we were refused were these:-
FOUR REASONS.
1 She sent my email that i wrote to her. but not her e-mails that she sent to me.
2 I am divorced and live in the marital home. They wanted letter from ex wife stating that she had no objections to my wife and I living there.
3 I am still paying the mortage and the house is in both my mine and my ex names.The mortage is linked to my bank accounts. These accounts are still in mine and my ex names and can not be changed (my ex does not used or want to use these accounts).They wanted a letter from my ex stating that she does not use these accounts.
4 From my previous marriage I have two children. They wanted a letter from my ex stating that she is and does not intend on asking me to support her or my children. At present I do not and my ex does not want me to.

My ex willingly wrote a letter to cover all of these points. I also got the bank to write a letter also saying that this was the case with the mortage. My wife supplied her e-mails.I wrote a letter to explain everything also.My wife also wrote a letter to explain everything also.
January 11 the visa section called my wife asking for her to send her passport to them.
January 15 they recieved the passport
January 26 I e-mailed the visa section asking what the latest was.
January 27I recieved a quick reply saying:-
We confirm to have received your wife's passport on 15 January via courier. This have been forwarded to the concerned Entry Cleareance Officer for routine processing of overturned appeals.
We have recently completed the process and we will return your wife's passport with the stamped visa through the pre-paid courier envlope she provided the soonest time possible.
I hope that this humm short(hehehe)message can be useful to someone

I would just like to say what an EXTREMELY USEFUL post this IS, Dave ... many thanks for your kind and thoughtful gesture, in sharing your experience with the forum membership.

[dave63]

I would just like to say what an EXTREMELY USEFUL post this IS, Dave ... many thanks for your kind and thoughtful gesture, in sharing your experience with the forum membership.

Thank you Arthur.If this information prevents someone making the mistakes we made,Then I have given a little back for the help I recieved.

[sars_notd_virus]

Very useful thanks

[dave63]

Very useful thanks

You are welcome.If it helps others,Then mission accomplished