Can my 19 year old Thai wife and our baby get a visa to come to the uk?

Thai wife and our baby get a visa to come to the uk?

My 19 year old Thai wife is pregnant with our first child, we are not married. We have been in a relationship for 1 year and I would like for her to come to the UK, if possible I would like my baby born in the UK, if not I would be just as happy if they could visit me after my new baby is born.

The UK visas available to your Thai girlfriend are limited to just a tourist visa. The reasons you would not be able to apply for a UK Settlement visa or UK fiancée visa is that both of you have to be 21 years or older.

Thai doctors do not recommend that pregnant ladies take long haul flights after 6 months pregnancy. Getting a visa could take you several months to get all of the paper work and documents together.

The problems you have ahead of you.

If you Thai girlfriend applies for a UK Tourist visa and is called for an interview at the Embassy, seeing your girlfriend pregnant, the embassy clearing officer could take the view that she is only going to England to have the baby, or that she wil not return to Thailand at the end of the visa. These simple reasons are enough for the clearing officer to decline the visa.

Your 19 year old Thai wife will not get a UK settlement visa, she could apply for a UK tourist – visitor’s visa.

Thai Girlfriend Travel England and Ireland

Hi I am a dual Irish and British citizen. I met my Thai girlfriend in Pattaya and we speak on the phone every day.

I would like to apply for a visa so my Thai girlfriend can travel to England and Ireland. I would like is so she can come to England to see where I live and then travel to Ireland to meet my family. Will my Thai girlfriend be able to travel to both England and Ireland on a British tourist visa?

This will not be an achievable. Getting a visa for England will be the easier of the two as you the sponsor live there etc. For your girlfriend to be able to travel to Ireland, a separate visa will be needed, a visa from the Irish embassy.

A British visa will allow your Thai girlfriend to visit

Scotland
Wales
England
Northern Ireland

An Irish visa will allow your Thai girlfriend to travel to

Ireland.

I am not recommending or giving the following information as advice, but only explaining what other people in your situation have done in the same position.
After obtaining a UK tourist visa, your girlfriend will be able to visit England and Northern Ireland. If you were to book a flight from England to Belfast and then hire a car, from what I understand there are no checks at the Northern Ireland – Southern Ireland border,

The correct way to enter both England and Ireland would be to make two separate visa application, one with the British embassy and one with the Irish Embassy. But knowing how difficult it can be to obtain visas, I have a strong feeling that one of the two will be refused, the country you do not reside in.

One quick question

One quick question although i live on my own i have not got divorced as yet from ex wife but been seperated for six years,i can prove this via a solicitors letter,but am little concerned if this will affect the visa application for my Thai girlfriend, we only want a holiday visa.

When you are in a relationship with a Thai partner, even though you may be married but separated, you will be ok to get a visa, or to put it a better way, the UK embassy in Bangkok will not hold it against you. You may be married, but you are only applying for a UK Tourist Visa

3 Thai girlfriend UK Visa Questions 1 Answer

My Thai partner has been to the Uk before ?

When I spoke at length with this gentleman from the UK, I learnt that the thai girlfriend had been to the UK 3 years ago with a previous boyfriend, she had not been to the UK with the new boyfriend. For a visa application this means she has no immigration history with this relationship.

Would she be able to stay in the Uk after the 6 months if we got married?

The thai lady will not be able to get married in the UK on a tourist visa, it will be very unlikely that you will receive a fiancée visa if she has not been to the UK to visit you previously.

Would it be easier if she had a Job to come to in the UK ?

I guess that the job would be an unskilled job. The UK immigration department are not going to issue a visa for a Thai person to come to the UK to do an unskilled job. 2009 1 out of every 4 people between the age of 18 and 25 are out of work. The UK really doesn’t need any more unskilled workers right now.

The only visa which is suitable in this situation is a Tourist visa, or a visitors visa. This will allow your Thai partner to visit the UK for up to six months. At the end of this period of time they will have to return to Thailand, but it would then be possible to apply for a Settlement visa (if you are married) or a finacee visa to get married in the UK

Holiday in Pattaya and a new Thai girlfriend

Holiday in Pattaya and a new Thai girlfriend


I have just returned from Pattaya after two weeks. I met a Thai lady and have fallen in love with her. After our two weeks together and meeting her family in Bangkok it has been agreed that I would like to take my new Thai girlfriend back to my home in England for 6 months on a tourist visa.

At the moment she has no passport and therefore in the next month she will apply for one in Bangkok, I understand that once a passport is granted that a visa should take less than 3 months , my intentions is to come again in November and return to England with my girlfriend. Could you therefore give me any instructions for this purpose?

Men that visit Pattaya for a two week holiday

The amount of men that visit Pattaya for a two week holiday and return to England in fill belief that they are truly in love. The British embassy hears this every day of the week and do not take such relationships serious. It would be a waste of time and money to make a visa application after only a two week holiday romance. The British embassy likes to see a relationship that has taken place over many months with evidence to back it up. In probability this relationship will be over well before a successful application could be made.

UK Visa information 2009

2009 and the UK visa rules

The credit crunch of 2009 pushed many British men back from Thailand to the UK. Many of these men are now trying to get their Thai girlfriends and wife’s back to the UK, but with no money and no job, there is little chance of a visa being issued.

UK Visa question 2009

I have been living in Thailand for the last 6 years.
Me and my new Thai girlfriend lived together for over two years. She always took care of my children. The children are not hers but form a former relationship I was in with a Thai lady.

As we lived together for two years, we have no evidence of being together, her name is not in the Thai house book, and her driving license is still registered to her parents’ home in the village. We have no letters, phone records or Emails.
As I returned to the UK because I have run out of money and cannot afford to stay in Thailand I am now living with my sisters in the UK. I am looking for work, but with the credit crunch there isnt much work about and what is available is low pay, so I will not be able to get my own place for a while.
I would like to get my girlfriend a visa so she can come and live with me here in the UK, if she could work also we could get a place between us. My sister says that she will be the sponsor. Do you think a she will get a Visa.

UK Visa information 2009

Only married partners may apply for a UK settlement visa, this is the only visa available that will allow your Thai partner back to the UK to live and to work. As you are not married you will not be granted a UK settlement visa. As you have no money at this time, it is likely your Thai girlfriend will be refused a tourist visa (UK visitor visa).
The other problem you will face with this application is the lack of evidence to show you have been together for 2 years. The embassy will only believe what you can demonstrate. So if the first emails, letters or calls are 3 months old but you have been together for 3 years, the embassy will only class the relationship as 3 months old.
Your sister will not be able to sponsor your Thai girlfriend; you are in the relationship not your sister.
The problems from the sponsor side are that large that there is no possible chance of a visa being issued at this time. We have not taken into account your Thai girlfriends information. For instance if she was looking after your children in Thailand she is not in full term employment? What about a place to live?

The best advice in this situation is to get your life back on track in the UK. Getting work, some saving behind you and a place to call home. When you have all this in place, then it will be time to look at the visa application.

Just because you are married does not guarantee a UK visa

This is another email we received from a British husband regarding a visa for his Thai wife. His wife was intending on visiting him in the UK for Christmas 2009, but the visa was refused.

Email for British Husband about his Thai wife and her UK visa application

Me and my Thai wife are actually married now already here in Thailand, and living and working in BKK. She own a business, and I'm just an online international rep., So as far as the only visa we might be looking at around Christmas or so, would just be a simple UK tourist visa. Since we are married, and she is only coming for a few weeks, I know that is guaranteed to go through. After doing our marriage myself, I know for that visa we can obtain in on our own fairly easy, especially being in BKK.

Just because you are married does not guarantee a UK visa for your Thai wife.

This visa was refused by the UK immigration department. No interview was given, just a visa refusal. No matter how many times I tell people the information seams not to stick. So here is the message again. Just because you are married does not guarantee a UK visa for your Thai wife.

When you wife is applying for a UK tourist visa, you will need to show

• That she will be returning to Thailand
• That she will be able to travel back independent to her husband
• There is constant contact with evidence between husband and wife.
• There is suitable accommodation in the UK for the duration of her stay
• While in the UK the Thai wife will have enough funds for the complete duration of her planned stay.

If the Thai wife had visited the UK within 6 months prior to this fresh visa application, even with all the evidence required she would be refused the UK visa.