need help-tourist visa, what relationship status should i use?

[sweet_cookie08]

hello win2win,

i cant get a new passport now. i just received my nullification (divorce) papers and knowing Philippines processing, it would take me 2 months to have a new passport! huhuhu. Our wedding is set to be on April 12, 2008 already. His mum has been waiting to meet me since October.

How much money should I have in my bank account to prove that i can support my self there for 2 weeks only?

"As Pete says, the vast majority, over 95% of tourist visas are denied, but it's only money" win2win, what do you mean by, "it's only money?"

to Bridget, i can't apply for a fiancee visa since we are getting married here in manila by APril 2008.

Bridget, please, what exactly did you do when you applied for a tourist visa? did your boyfriend sponsored everything? did you include all the evidences that you are real boyfriends like photos, chats, emails, etc?

please do help me guys. i need help.

thanks!

[Bridget]

Bridget, please, what exactly did you do when you applied for a tourist visa? did your boyfriend sponsored everything? did you include all the evidences that you are real boyfriends like photos, chats, emails, etc?

please do help me guys. i need help.

thanks!

Hi Sweet_cookieo8,
Ok you wanted to go to UK as visitor/ tourist. You must not declare that your sponsor is actually your fiance, you can just say that he is your boyfriend. In my case before, my sponsor was my boyfriend (my fiance now). He declared in his supporting letter that I will stay with him in his own house and that theres enough funds available for me during my stay, that he provides me a return ticket and also a travel insurance.
I submiited to the British Embassy the following, to apply for a visit visa;
From my sponsor; all photocopies only.
6 months payslips
6 months bank statements, savings account and current account
A photocopy of his stock shares, investment, trust funds.
Utility bills, telephone, water and electricity
Passport and all the stamped pages
Supporting letter

Then I provide the following; All oroginal and ptotocopy

Passport old and new
My Business Permit
Barangay clearance and Police clearance
SSS monthly receipts
Western Union receipts, when he sent me the money for airticket & visa fee.
HSBC Savings account and current account bank statements.
and
photocopy of stamped pages of my old and new passport
some pictures of us together taken here, in HK and in Shen Zhen, China.
manager`s cheque for the visa fee.
Greeting cards, postcards and letters from him (for the past six months.)
Application Form and 1 photograph

I did not submit any chat, emails conversation copy. His telephone bills where most the numbers he called is my telephone and mobile phone, thats a strong evidence of our regular contact.
Take note: travel insurance is not actually required by the Embassy, it is my fiance`s idea as he does not want me to leave the country without a travel insurance and I only purchase one after I got my visa.
Goodluck.

[Welsh_Italian]

This may not be of much help but here goes. My wife and I were married back in June 2007 (which is the difference between ours and your cases because you're not yet married) and we managed to get her passport changed to her new name jsut after.

We applied for a tourist visa because a) she is only visiting the UK for a few months, and b) it's cheaper. We intend to live in the Phils after her time here.

Looking at the record, her visa was granted the same day it was viewed with no interview so something must have been right. When we applied, we put together a lot of information much like a spousal visa. We included marriage documents, both birth certificates, photos of the wedding, my pay slips for the last 12 months, my tenancy agreement (which I had changed to include her name), brief details of our emails, chats, texts, remittances and telephone conversations, evidence of my visits, and a sponsorship letter from myself saying that I was willing to look after so that she would have no recourse to public funds. This was necessary because my wife no longer works and had no savings. I also included evidence (though not strong evidence) that I was going to leave the UK for the Phils soon. Without that letter, I doubt she would have been given the visa.

So it is possible to get a visa. One word of warning: emphasise that you are visiting and not looking to stay and this applies to the immigration officials at the airport. In your case, I would also emphasise that you have been granted a visa already and have abided by the conditions. This proves clearly to them that you are not "illegally" minded and less of a risk.

Best of luck with your application. As previously said, it is hard to get a visitors visa but it is possible.