It's been 5 months of hassle and we're $4000 poorer from it, but my wife finally got her visa to live and work in the UK.
For the first time since we've met, we're now able to live in the same country!
Words just cannot express how ecstatic I am!!!!!
She applied for her visa the first time around, then we waited 3 months, and were informed (on Valentine's Day, I might add) that she had been denied. We then learned that the reasons for the refusal were just ridiculously petty:
1.) They weren't convinced I was a British citizen because the copy of my passport wasn't certified (yet all they requested from me was a copy and they made no mention of needing it certified).
2.) They thought our marriage certificate "looked fake". Which really offended the Pennsylvania courthouse that issued it when we told them this news. So we basically had to request the most official certification possible.
3.) Evidence we had provided of our relationship was "too scant". Out of spite, in her second application we mailed them a large box of hundreds of pages of emails, phone records, letters, postcards, photos...
The first application took 3 months. The second time around took less than 3 days because we just overwhelmed them with supporting documentation.
I could rant on about how disgusted I am by a system wherein one has this requirement to prove how "valid" their relationship is to some faceless bureaucracy, and how exploitative and extortionate it is to young couples who simply want to be together. But I'm just too overjoyed.
HOORAY!!!
For the first time since we've met, we're now able to live in the same country!
Words just cannot express how ecstatic I am!!!!!
She applied for her visa the first time around, then we waited 3 months, and were informed (on Valentine's Day, I might add) that she had been denied. We then learned that the reasons for the refusal were just ridiculously petty:
1.) They weren't convinced I was a British citizen because the copy of my passport wasn't certified (yet all they requested from me was a copy and they made no mention of needing it certified).
2.) They thought our marriage certificate "looked fake". Which really offended the Pennsylvania courthouse that issued it when we told them this news. So we basically had to request the most official certification possible.
3.) Evidence we had provided of our relationship was "too scant". Out of spite, in her second application we mailed them a large box of hundreds of pages of emails, phone records, letters, postcards, photos...
The first application took 3 months. The second time around took less than 3 days because we just overwhelmed them with supporting documentation.
I could rant on about how disgusted I am by a system wherein one has this requirement to prove how "valid" their relationship is to some faceless bureaucracy, and how exploitative and extortionate it is to young couples who simply want to be together. But I'm just too overjoyed.
HOORAY!!!
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