hi im new here! my partner overstayed his visa for and went home voluntarily last 2016. he’s currenty in Saudi working and has a contract there. I want to ask if he can be able to visit me here as tourist?
Highly unlikely I would have thought but nothing ventured nothing gained. I had a conversation with a "public servant" this week and she said that the visa people had been told to bounce visas for the smallest infringement even though they know that they will go through on appeal. Nothing to do with harder immigration controls, all to do with processing targets
If your UK Standard Visitor Visa application is refused, you have three avenues to pursue: reapply for the visa appeal on Human Rights ground challenge the decision via judicial review
The OP appears to be posting from London, but yes it would help everyone else if users would make it clear where they are posting from and what nationality their partner is, I'm assuming the husband is Filipino in this case but we could have read it the other way round easily.
That is my understanding also. Depending on the individual circumstances, a instance of Overstaying could very likely adversely affect any future visa application.
Extract from the UKGOV website The full right of appeal for applicants seeking entry to the UK as a family visitor has been removed. From today (25 June, 2013), there will be no right of appeal against the refusal of a family visit visa application, unless the appeal is on human rights or race discrimination grounds
Sorry to tell you this but there's absolutely no way he'll be granted another visa to visit the UK for about ten years.
He's left of his own accord without being caught, at least that is my reading of it, so it all depends on the accuracy of airline check-in desk reporting for the UK authorities to determine if he left and when. As for a return that might depend on when his passport gets replaced, and even then they were not dishing out exit stamps for a hell of a long time in the UK, so new passport with possibly no record of overstay then who is to say? If the correct reading is that he was caught by the authorities and then voluntarily left then that is another matter and you are right it's a ten year ban, but it all depends on what exactly happened just before he left and how good the UK's immigration tracking actually was at that time.
Aside from hopefully UKBA will be able to pick up on his arrival and departure dates An awful lot will depend on the guys honesty (and given that overstaying is an illegal act) on how he answers future visa application questions. e.g Dates in the UK. Have you ever overstayed Extract from ECO guidelines https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...fender-rfl05-paragraph-3207b-and-a320#header1
