Booking flights for and visa applications

Heliflyguy

jammin wrote: »

http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/resources/en/docs/1903073/supportingdocsvisituk

In my experience, cases like these are refused then approved on appeal.

In your pdf link it states :

"We advise that you do not make any payments for accommodation, travel and so on until you have received your visa"

In my experience and many others flight tickets have never been required.

As I said there would be no appeal, a refusal can only be challenged on certain grounds.

I could not find any Vietnamese forums however if the OP looks here they might pick up some pointers, I am sure the website would be happy to help even though a different country.

http://www.thailand-uk.com/forums/showthread.php?10454-Gf-s-tourist-Visa-rejected&highlight=visit+visa+appeal

jammin_2

Heliflyguy wrote: »

In your pdf link it states :

"We advise that you do not make any payments for accommodation, travel and so on until you have received your visa"

Yes, it also says:
Details of accommodation and return travel bookings, This could be:
 hotel booking confirmation (usually email)
 travel booking confirmation (can be email or copy of tickets)
 travel agent confirmation of both

Again, the core concern of the ECO is the capacity to return home and a strong reason for doing so.

Heliflyguy wrote: »

In my experience and many others flight tickets have never been required.

Then we have different experience.

bluu2k

Kido wrote: »

My brother is coming back to the Uk to visit for a couple of weeks in the summer and he wants to bring his girlfriend with him. The problem is that she's Vietnamese and they won't grant her a visa unless she's got booked return air fares, however, there's no guarantee she'll be given a visa even if she can prove she's got seats on a flight.

Does anyone know of a way to temporarily book airfares or reserve seats without having to pay if she doesn't get her visa. If it's any help they'll be travelling with Qatar airways from Ho Chi Minh city to the UK.

Hello,

It's pretty simple in Vietnam. You can ask her to call any travel agents in HCMC and asked for a flight reservation (to reserve a seat, not to commit actual purchase of ticket).

The travel agent then can provide her, absolutely free, with reservation details, via hard copy or electronically. For visa purpose, any airlines ticket will do, she does not need reserve specifically with Qatar.

Suppose your brother and his girlfriend are in HCMC now, surely they will know how to find some travel agents in the city, won't they? Just a phone call and then they can have it.

Cheers,

bluu2k

Kido wrote: »

It's for a standard single entry visa. She's planning on coming over for about 6 weeks with him then they will return to Vietnam together. I'm suspecting another problem might be that she is not working at them moment. She left her job and hasn't found another one yet. From what my brother has said I don't think she's really looking until after they get back as he's supporting her and apparently even if she does get another job, they won't keep it open while she comes over to England for that long.

Well, in this case there'll be more chance of success if she can prove that she has very strong ties with Vietnam so that she will come back.

Such as close relationship with her family members, property ownership, period saving accounts, securities investments, job offer opened, ready to wait for her coming back, etc. A good point to put down is strong relationship with your brother, who will definitely return to Vietnam due to his work commitments. All these things should be presented into a cover letter to be sent with the application set.

Otherwise, it might be difficult.

Voyager2002

Jammin, is there a right of appeal for visitors' visas? As I recall, that right was removed in the early 1990s, meaning that the ECO's decision was final.

bluu2k

Voyager2002 wrote: »

Jammin, is there a right of appeal for visitors' visas? As I recall, that right was removed in the early 1990s, meaning that the ECO's decision was final.

Yes, it's possible to have full right of appeal in case of visitor visa, i.e. family visit. You can check it here:


Who can appeal?
For some types of application, there are Full Rights of Appeal (FRA) when entry clearance to the United Kingdom is refused. These are the most common:
Family Visit - if you are visiting qualifying family members in the UK
Settlement – if you are seeking to permanently settle with qualifying family members in the UK.
Your appeal rights will be stated on your written notice of refusal.

Heliflyguy

bluu2k wrote: »

Yes, it's possible to have full right of appeal in case of visitor visa, i.e. family visit. You can check it here:

Except the OP brothers girlfriend of 5 months does not qualify for a family visit visa, so if refused then no appeal in this case.

VAT2.2 What is a family visitor?
Under the Immigration Appeals (Family Visitor) Regulations 2003, a family visitor is defined as someone who intends to visit someone who is related to them in the following way:

1. the applicant's spouse, father, mother, son, daughter, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, granddaughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece or first cousin (note: "first cousin" means, in relation to a person, the son or daughter of his uncle or aunt);
2. the father, mother, brother or sister of the applicant's spouse;
3. the spouse of the applicant's son or daughter;
4. the applicant's stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother or stepsister; or
5. a person with whom the applicant has lived as a member of an unmarried couple for at least two of the three years before the day on which his application for entry clearance was made.

In addition:

• Children adopted under an adoption order recognised in UK law are treated as if they are the natural children of the adoptive parents; and,
• The Immigration Appeals (Family Visitor) Regulations 2003 pre-date The Civil Partnership Act (2004). Civil partners are considered “a member of the applicant’s family” in the same way as a spouse for the purposes of the Family Visitor Regulations.