Hi to all. Im just new here. My boyfriend and I are planning to apply tourist visa on august. Im currently working here in hong kong, by Aug my contract is finish. My problem is when I go back in phil im unemployed. I have a small business now my mum manage it a small sari sari store and an Internet cafe. Is there any chances that I can get tourist visa? Thanks to all. I hope you can help me
Hi, I am sorry to say it is bad news. The UK does not issue "tourist visas" as such but issues "visit visas" which are for stays of up to six months. Unfortunately very many Filipinas who came to Britain on tourist visas and for study "overstayed" and did not go back to the Philippines at the end of their legal stay in Britain. This means that the Philippines is now on the list of countries from which it is very, very difficult to travel to Britain as a tourist. You can apply for a visit visa, but unless you can prove that you MUST return to the Philippines at the end of your holiday, your application will be rejected. Since you don't actually have to return to the Philippines, your application will be rejected. The only way for most Filipinas to visit the UK is to marry and apply for a wife visa or apply for a fiancée visa. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
I agree with Methersgate, which is never the sort of thing we like to inform people of. A sari sari store won't really count for much with the UK immigration services, only a business such as a store in a mall or a larger more established business that needs you to return home to. As an example, my wife has a cousin who lives in London (is a doctor) and her mother and father both got visas to visit the UK. However, they owned a farm and could really only leave the Philippines for a few weeks and not even the full 6 months available. However, if you've also traveled to other countries before and have left before your visa expired at those countries, the UK services might look upon this as evidence you intend to return back home from the UK once your visa has expired.
I agree with Methersgate. You do not appear to have any compelling reasons to return to the Philippines before or at the end of your permitted stay in the UK.
on the other hand--its a cheap visa--so no great loss if youre turned down. do you have any family in the UK to visit ? is your boyfriend a british citizen ? my g/f got a visit visa last summer--to visit her sister in the UK--but showed compelling reasons to return---family--home--business--plus--she had been here before on a student visa--and did NOT overstay.
He is british citizen. My family has a land and its in the process now on putting it under my name. We will apply fiancee visa next year once he get the annual income required amount. Btw can I apply uk visit visa here in hk if ever ill renew my contract to my employer?
have you actually met your boyfriend ? if you have--and are planning a future together--then by all means apply for a fiancee visa when he has 6 months payslips showing he is earning above the income requirement threshold---and meets the other requirements. if it means next year--so what---many of us have had to wait a long longer than that. meantime--sure--renew your employment contract--it will show a need to return--then apply for a visit visa--nothing to lose. my g/f applied twice--its just money in the bank for UKVI.
Yap weve meet already. He came all the way here in hk last feb.♥♥ he started on his new work last dec we thought we have to wait for him to turn one year on his new job. Btw is there possibility that I can apply uk visit visa here in hk? Thank u for ur reply it helps a lot. Im sure he will be happy when I tell him about this
Yes you can provided you can demonstrate residency in HK - which you should be able to do, by virtue of your job. You will require a letter from your employer that confirms your job, the salary paid, that you have been granted a leave of absence to visit the UK and that your job will be held open for you during your absence.
i cant see why you couldnt apply for a visa from HK----but the main thing is proving a compelling reason to return. the job situation should help. you--and your b/f need to research all the aspects of life in the UK--and everything involved with applying to settle here. theres a lot more to it than filling up a form and paying the fees.
Hi, My then girlfriend (now my wife) sucesfully applied for a general visitor visa to visit me here in the UK last year. So it is possible. At the time she was a full time nursing student, and that was really the only reason we could give for her to return. The land title for her family's house and lot was also in her name, maybe that helped. We just said that she wanted to visit her boyfriend (me) to meet my family and do some sightseeing for 5 weeks during her summer holiday from university. We also provided lots of evidence that I had enough money to fully pay for her visit and support her while she was here. Her first application was refused because they said she hadn't given any evidence of our relationship or even that we had met - which was true because it wasn't clear to me that we needed to just for a visitors visa. So we re-applied, including photos of us together and with her family (I had visited her 4 times in Phils), copies of emails, text messages and ym conversations etc and receipts for gifts I had sent her. This second application was granted and she came here to visit me for 5 weeks in April/May last year. We enjoyed our time together so much, that after she went back home, we decided to get engaged and she stopped her nursing course, and came back to stay with me for another 3 months, since her visitors visa was valid for 6 months. We are now married and she has just recieved her spouse visa and will be here permanently in a few weeks. So it is possible, and even if they refuse you first time, they will explain the reason for the refusal, and it can be worth trying again. Good luck, Martin.
Hi. If ill apply here in hk for uk visit visa what documents I need to provide?thank u soo much. God Bless us all.
The same as if applying from the Philippines. It does not matter where you are applying from, so far as the documents are concerned, but I fancy your prospects of sucess may be higher if you apply from HK
