I recently (Dec 2018) tried to enter the UK after traveling there for a week prior to December with no such trouble. This time however, I was trying to stay for 6 months to be with my boyfriend (UK citizen)... (I know bad move) Naturally and quite stupidly I quit my part time job as I thought I should to go on such the journey. I did not have any money for this trip as I would be relying on my boyfriend to "support" me during my stay there. I did not see any issue in doing this just as long as he could prove his source of income.  With this, I opted for the 6 month instead of say 2 weeks or 2 months (like I should have), i.e. I wanted to spend the most time with him that was possible, then go home. Anyways I was denied entry and sent home due to 'insufficient funds'; e.g. I quit my job in order to come on this trip, so to them I looked as if I cut all ties with my country, when in reality I was just trying to spend some much needed time with my boyfriend.  Long story short, if I try to reenter for two weeks, will I be denied again, being as from the nature of my second visit I was deemed a 'non genuine visitor"? I was told I was better-off applying for a visa. I was just genuinely confused about the rules on going for 6 months as you do not need a visa to visit up to 6 months if you are from the USA. I just want to make sure once I decide to travel again I won't have any hiccups.
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I have been to the UK 12 times and I also had a 2 year visa. My boyfriend lives in England and we have been together 8 years. Last time I visited I was refused entry because I didn't have a return ticket. I also had an old resume I forgot. (It was 1 resume and it was 3 years old from when I first stayed the 2 years I just forgot it in the pocket I know it's really stupid) The officer didn't say he thought I'd work illegally but he did say he thought I might OVER stay. (I haven't over stayed the last 12 times, and he knew that.)  They took my photo and fingerprints even before I was refused. What will happen now? If I apply for a partner visa will I get refused? Before I was seeking entry as a visitor when I got refused and I want to visit again before getting this partner visa.  How hard will it be to get a visa for "join your partner in the UK" for me? I was honest the whole time and even when he was trying hard to find lies (it seemed) the immigration officer seemed pleased I didn't lie about anything.  How will having an X in my passport affect me?  I'm Canadian and he is British.
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I'm from the Philippines, and I plan on travelling to the UK with my sister to visit a relative.  I have just submitted my visa application and have already paid online, when I noticed that I've made a clerical error. In the 'visit or stay' portion of section "Do you have any friends or relatives in the UK?", I clicked the 'no' box, instead of 'yes'.  My sister's application is correct. She selected 'yes'. Our appointment is due next month. I am planning to email them about this, and also inform them on the day of application submission.  Is this the right path to take?
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I have applied for a Schengen visa in the Consulate of Italy. I will be visiting for a 2 month period to attend a dance workshop. However, I plan to visit my boyfriend twice. He is studying in Germany currently and we made plans to meet up while I'm there. I will be visiting for a week or so both times. I did not put this in my itinerary. Will I still be able to visit?   Also, I just made some random hotel booking on booking.com in order to apply. Can I cancel those bookings and book an accommodation elsewhere if I want, once I get the visa?
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I applied for a marriage visitor visa, to get married to my boyfriend of 2 years.   We met while we were students in the UK and have had vacations together in the two years but not in the U.K.   With the application I had attached an offer letter from a company stating that I have a job offer open starting 3 months later.   This however has been tagged as non genuine, although the company is registered and is run by someone I know.  How can I appeal to this?
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I applied for the UK tourism visa.  I mentioned that I was going to travel only for 2 weeks. However I got rejected because I didn't mention in the application, that I was working, nor mentioned that my dad has a job also.  Although I gave them my dad's bank statement, they were worried that I might go to the UK and not come back, because I might not have enough funds to return to Egypt which is not true.  My mum wrote my application and she didn't know that she was supposed to put my dad's job or mine as well, or whether I stayed with my family or alone. I suspect that's the reason why the visa application got rejected.  I want to apply again for the visa because I want to visit my cousin - she lives there, plus I need to go on a vacation. I want to know whether it's possible for me to apply again for the visa now, or do I have to wait for another six months to reapply?
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My friend applied for a UK visa last month (that is, June 2015) for 3 weeks in the UK, but got 6 months. Since she got more days, she decided to extend her stay, because she has a six-month visa with 180 days to stay. She left from Kenya on Thursday evening, but they refused her entry and canceled her visa because she decided to extend her stay from 3 weeks to 5 months.  She did this because the visa is valid for 6 months. We can't understand whether this is right. Nowhere on the visa is there anything to indicate that she can only stay for a certain period of time. It indicates 180 days duration of stay. Can she appeal?
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I have a Serbian girlfriend who I have visited in Belgrade 4 times now and she is planning a trip to the UK for her 2 weeks vacation in 2 months from now ().  When applying for this visa she must state the main reason for her visit, which is for her to see me and stay with me, also some travel to meet my friends and family etc. Thus, she must also state her relationship to me.  However, various people who have some experience of/heard stories about UK visa applications for such reasons are constantly telling us that we should never mention that I am her boyfriend or that she is my girlfriend, as she may then be refused. However, we plan to marry after my divorce (in process) is completed in 3-4 months time, so I do not under any circumstances wish to be deceptive so as to risk jeopardising our subsequent application for her to come here on a fiancée/marriage visa, as I read about .  Do the "rumours" hold any truth? Should we do as I suggest and declare that we are boyfriend/girlfriend? Is there anything specific we should be aware of to document and declare about our releationship for the initial Standard Visitor visa?
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I can't seem to find a story related to mine so here it is.  I am 25 and a German citizen. In 1998 when I was 7 years old my family moved to the states and we stayed until early 2002 and left voluntarily. Basically we overstayed. I am aware that my parents had the ten year ban and since I was a minor at the time of our overstay I did not receive such ban.  Ever since 2002 I have not attempted to go back to the USA for any reason. However now that I am older I would like to go back for vacation and stay for a short period of time (one month) during my christmas break.  I've lived in Germany since leaving, have a great job, enough money in the bank account. My whole life is here and I have no intention on moving anywhere else.  After reading a bunch of stories online I have decided to apply for a B2 visa to be on the safe side but I was curious about the ESTA approval. For the last question. 8) Have you ever stayed in the United States longer than the admission period granted to you by the U.S. government?   I should put yes but is it a no if I stayed when I was a minor? And what are my chances on getting the B2 Visa?
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I am a British citizen visiting the USA in early August for a two week vacation with friends. After the holiday I'm returning to my home in the UK for three weeks. After that I will return to the USA and will be working for my British employer under the Visa Waiver Program for a period of 80-85 days.  I have read already that there is technically no problems with this under ESTA rules, but should I limit this working period to a shorter time frame (e.g. 70 or so days) so that it does not negatively affect the decision made by the POE officer? Ideally I would love to be over in the states for the near-full 85 day period.  Any advice or previous experiences anyone can offer?  Some clarifications: As confirmed by the immigration attorney, as I am employed by my UK employer, it will be regarded as a business trip, the important part being that I will be working officially as a consultant for my UK employer just overseas for the allotted 85 or so days
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I'm Italian and I wanted to return to the U.S. to meet some friends. The problem is that in 2011 I overstayed my visa by 4 months (so 90 days of regular visa waiver plus 4 months more for health problems). I read that this put me into a 3-year ban.  Now it's 2015 and in March I went to apply for a B2 visa (ESTA was denied), but they refused to give me a visa because I didn't have enough ties in my home country. I took all the proofs so I believe that the denial was actually for the overstay.  I want to reschedule another appointment this month, but I wanted to know if anyone has re-entered the U.S. after an overstay, or if anyone got a B2 visa after an overstay.
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Can anyone let me know if they have experience of someone who has applied for a UK Standard Visitor visa and had EVERYTHING in their application except flight bookings? Refused or accepted - anything at all.   My boyfriend has just applied for a UK Standard Visitor visa for a two week period and has proved ties in his country, proof of employment and holiday time, proof of theatre and excursion ticket bookings in the UK, train journey tickets in the UK, proof of address, his bank statements, proof of accommodation, two letters of invitation etc; just not booked flights.   So has anyone applied like this and been accepted or refused or do you know someone who has?  I'm asking to plan for if the application is refused based on flights not being booked.  Addendum: Thank you for the response - the question is does anyone have experience of a visa application being made without any flight information and if the application was refused on basis of lack of flight information or they had everything else and it was accepted. The question is not how do I book a flight without paying for the purpose of application or what do I need to put in the application, apologies if that was unclear.  As I said, the application has already been made and I am asking to make a contingency plan if necessary and considering most realistic outcomes by trying to find out if anyone has had a similar experience.
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I am from Nigeria and I'm doing a one year Internship program with The Marriott hotel in Wisconsin, I applied for the UK visitor visa two weeks ago to visit my fiance who lives and work in the UK, but I was refused the visa because the letter of my workplace that I provided was back dated of 2014 which they say they are not satisfy it accurately reflects my current employment circumstance. I also provided my pay slips, but they said they were not satisfied with it demonstrating the terms and conditions of my employment, and they also said I did not present any evidence to satisfy me having sufficiently strong ties and commitments in my country of habitual residence or elsewhere to motivate my timely departure from the UK. They said the documents my fiance presented were OK.  How soon can I re-apply for a UK visa after getting a refusal?
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I'm a writer and theater/film director who has been traveling nearly all my life without incident. In February, I decided to pull up stakes in NYC and move to London. I am a freelancer and I'm working with three different organizations in NYC so I wasn't working illegally in the UK. I was, however, seeing if there might be some opportunities in London, ie. meeting with Artistic Directors of various theatre companies to see if they might be interested in producing my work.   In April, I was invited to a conference in San Diego and then a film festival in Switzerland. I didn't think it would be a problem if I went and then bummed around in France for a few days since I hadn't broken any laws and had left the UK well under my six month leave to stay. Well, when I tried to return to London, I was denied entry at Luton. The border control officer said I didn't have enough funds for a two month stay and put a black cross over a stamp in my passport. They put me in a detention room until the next flight back to Lyon, which was the following morning. I don't know anyone in Lyon so I ended up going to a friend's place in Paris.   After a few days of not knowing what to do, a friend suggested that perhaps I should try going back to London on the Eurostar since border control is in Paris. I wondered if I ought to go to the British Embassy but was deterred by something on their website that says that a visitors visa could take up to three weeks (I can't sit around here in Paris for three weeks) and anyway, the decision ultimately is with the border control, so I decided to take a chance on the Eurostar. I bought myself a return ticket in two weeks to Paris just so I had something to show.   Well, the UK border control denied me entry after giving me a third degree. They accused me of lying and seeking work in the UK. They also insisted that the amount of money I had was not enough to live on for two weeks. So I'm back at my friend's place in Paris, wondering what to do.   Is it possible for me to ever get back to the UK? I had to cancel one meeting and I'm wondering if I have to cancel going to the Sheffield DocFest. (Two of my projects were accepted to programs there.)   Should I apply for a visa from the British Embassy? Will this really take three weeks? When I started to say something about obtaining a visa, the border control officer cut me off and said, "Why are you going to the Embassy? This has nothing to do with the Embassy. We make the decisions."
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I am a Nigerian citizen. I was refused a visitor visa to the UK. Here is my rejection letter:     How can I apply again so as to not be refused? How soon can I apply? My university undergraduate course will be finished in a few weeks.
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I had applied for a PLAB (Doctors) Visa for the UK to appear in PLAB test. I got refused on the basis of two recent large deposits in the bank statement I provided (my mothers). In reality, these are my own savings which I had deposited in her account to make it more strong. The only objection I got was that I must provide evidence for the source of these deposits. Other than this, I have previously travelled to the UK and USA as well as other parts of the world and my travel history is fine. Can someone please advise on how to proceed and re-apply?
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My daughter who is just under 18 has a child accompanied visa to the UK. I am traveling with her to the UK for a few days. We return from UK on the same day except that she returns to India and I am heading to San Francisco an hour later on the same day.   Is that okay or will we have an issue at immigration into the United Kingdom?
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I had recently entered the UK without a visa to be with my partner, from 21 July 2016 until 16 December 2016. I hope to return on the 9th of January. We don't meet the income requirement for a Spouse visa. I recently applied to university, and got in, and was intending to return to the UK on a student visa, but my university did not tell me about maintenance fees and my loan wasn't large enough to cover it all, so my visa would have been denied.  Now, I am hoping to attend university in the next semester, and therefore return to the US to apply for that visa. Do you think that if I try to return to the UK without a visa, I will be turned away?  I won't be working or studying during this time, however, I'm afraid that they'll consider it living in the UK illegally; I don't have a criminal record or anything like that.