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In February 2018, I applied for a UK settlement visa to get married to my partner of 4 years. It was refused because, when we applied, our savings account did not have sufficient funds. I did not understand that we needed £62,500 to be in his bank account for 6 months and we only had £18,000 at the moment of application, It was refused, obviously, after 3 long months of waiting for a response.

Since it had been so many months wsince I had seen my partner, I decided to apply for a visitor visa right after my refusal. I planned to spend 6 weeks with him, while we waited to get the money needed and have it there for 6 months.

This visa was also refused, stating that my intentions might have not changed. They also pointed out that I said that the previous application was for a fiance visa but it was actually for a settlement visa .

How can I apply for a visitor without it being refused again? I want to see my partner and me going there is the only way, since he's very busy with work.

Giorgio
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I doubt you have much chance of getting a visitor visa. By applying for a settlement visa, you've told the UK that you're really enthusiastic about spending the rest of your life there and you're prepared to give up everything you have in your home country to achieve that. Now, you're saying "Please let me in for six weeks and I promise I'll leave." There are basically two kinds of people in your situation:

  1. people who will leave after six weeks because they respect the law and don't want to ruin their chances of living permanently in the UK;

  2. people who will use any possible way of coming into the UK and then try to stay forever.

Unfortunately, immigration officers have no way of telling which kind of person you are because all the evidence says that you want to and are able to stay in the UK forever, and there isn't really any evidence you can give to prove that you're in group 1. All you can do is promise you'll leave, but people in group 2 would also do that.

David Richerby
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