I would like my Thai girlfriend to live with me in the UK.

My Thai girlfriend who i met in Pattaya on holiday is with me in the UK the visa will expire in April 2010. Can we extend the tourist visa here or will she need to return to Thailand?

I would like my Thai girlfriend to live with me in the UK.

I would like my Thai girlfriend to live with me in the UK. I own a business and she would have a job with my company.

Any advice please.

Thai girlfriend is in the UK on a tourist visa

If your Thai girlfriend is in the UK on a tourist visa, she will have no choice but to return to Thailand.

When In Thailand you have three options

1) Wait 6 months then apply for a new tourist visa
2) Get married in Thailand and apply for uk settlement visa
3) Apply for a fiancée visa which will allow her to travel to the UK for 6 months, if in that time you marry, she will then be able to extend the visa for 2 years, after the 2 years she will be able to extend it indefinitely

The good thing about getting the fiancée visa is that you can do most of the work now before she returns in April and then when she returns in April the application could be made within 10 days of her return to Thailand and within 3 more weeks will be returning to you in the UK. You will not need to return to Thailand. Only Fem will be needed here.

We can help you obtain a UK fiancée visa . If you are ready to move forward we will be able to give both you and your partner a list of requirement that you will need to full fill to ensure the embassy will grant a uk finacee visa.


If you would like more information please contact me at any time


Find more information about a UK tourist Visa Here
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Thai wife UK state pension

Thai wife UK state pension

The world often isn’t fair and sometimes deals the toughest cards to the people with the least in society. As unfair as it may seem any man on a UK state pension with no other income will not be able to get his Thai wife back to the UK to live on either a spouse or settlement visa. This means that even if he is married his wife will not be able to obtain a visa to live in the UK

Age discrimination UK
In December 2003 the UK committed to legislating against age discrimination under the EC Directive on equal treatment. Refusing to allow a Thai wife to live in the UK with a British husband that only receives a state pension has been found not to
break the age discrimination rules.

Obviously men over the age of 65 that cannot get their Thai wife back to the UK to live feel that it is only about age. On occasions the men get their wife to apply for a UK marriage visa in Bangkok and when it is refused then get a solicitor in the UK to appeal against the decision listing age discrimination as the reason for appealing the visa refusal. None of these appeals have been successful.

Let’s look at the reasons why.

Thai wife UK state pension

We were promised a pension for every man or woman that works in the UK. Every week we pay a small amount of money as a national insurance payment. With the promise of continued free health care and a State pension from the age of 65 (for men).

We do however have the chance to privately save for our golden years. The truth is that people living on a state pension are living on the poverty line with very little money to spare. For many decades we have been advised to take out private pensions or make investments that will not be means tested at the time of retirement. So throughout our lives we all received the same information. Some people managed to get a private pension or make investments while others sadly for many reasons were not able to.

Part of the requirements that the visa officer looks at while deciding the outcome of a visa application is - will the Thai wife become a burden on the British state? If the British husband only has a state pension then the Thai wife will be using some of that money to live on therefore she will be a burden on the British state.
The only option available to a British pensioner with a Thai wife and a state pension is to apply for a UK tourist visa. This will at least let you spend 6 months together at a time in the UK.

Thai child British passport naturalisation process

The European human rights act of 2007 made a significant impact on children born out of wed lock between Thai ladies and British Men.

Thai child British passport naturalisation process

As of June 2007 any child born in or out of wedlock, between a Thai lady and British man can now obtain a British passport.

The rules changed for Thai – British children born before June 2007, but these children will still be able to get a British passport after going through the British Naturalisation process.

Prior to June 2007 children born out of wedlock could not obtain a British passport,
For more information how to obtain a British passport for Thai – British children visit Thai child British passport naturalisation process with step by step information of how to obtain the passport

Thai wife UK visa information 2010

The year is 2010 and there is a lot of information readily available on the internet regarding the rules of immigration and migration from Thailand to the UK. Yet people make so many big mistakes and as a result have no change of getting a visa for their Thai wife or girlfriend.

Often the mistakes they make are so big that it will be many years before the UK border agency would ever grant a visa.

This week a 22 year old man from the UK came into our visa office in Pattaya and explained that he would like to get his Thai wife back to the UK.
We asked some of the basic questions like
“How long have you know your Thai wife”
“When did you marry?”
“Did you marry in Bangkok or was it a Thai village marriage”
“How old is your Thai wife”

We were shocked at the response that we were given

I have known my Thai wife for 3 months. We met on the internet and we feel in love. We speak every day on the internet. I came to Thailand two weeks ago and got married in Bangkok and then a Thai marriage in the Village. My Thai wife is 17 years old. We want her to come to the UK so she can work and earn money as her family is poor.

Thai wife UK visa information 2010

I thought it best that I give him the bad news by first explaining the Thai wife UK visa information 2010. This is upto date information readily available on the internet that he really should have researched before getting so involved.
Even if married you cannot get a UK spouse visa or UK settlement visa until your wife and you are both at least 21 years of age. That means if his Thai wife is 17 today, she will not be able to live in the UK for another 4 years.
Because the Thai wife is under 18 a UK tourist visa will not be issued.
His Thai wife cannot get any visa to the UK at this time.

Needless to say that he was devastated and angry.

We tell people every day, do not marry your Thai girlfriend to obtain a visa, being married will not get you a visa.

To any outsider it is obvious that this couple does not know each other and as she will remain in Thailand and he will have to return to the UK, with the chance of 2 two week holidays to Thailand it is unlikely that they will ever get the change to know each other.

Even if the Thai wife was 21, in the same circumstances other UK visa requirements would result with the visa being denied.

IF you meet a Thai lady on the internet and it is three months before you first visit her in Thailand, when you arrive in Thailand it will classed as you have known each other for one day. Meeting in person is when you can start counting the amount of time.

The visa office in this case would have looked at the application and seen that this was his first trip to visit his Thai partner, knowing her for less than two weeks. The visa would be denied.

We tell people every day, do not marry your Thai girlfriend to obtain a visa, being married will not get you a visa.

For more information about marring a Thai and getting a visa
Thai Wife UK Visa

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