In 2009 I visited her in Thailand twice and plan to come again in March 2010. I send her money every month via money gram. We would like to know can we get her a UK tourist visa. My Thai girlfriend is 17 and we want a UK Tourist Visa

Thai girlfriend 19 to get a UK Tourist Visa

Thank you for the visa enquiry, I would like to inform you that the youngest age you will be able to get a UK tourist visa for your Thai girlfriend is 19.

When you are submitting any evidence when applying for the visa, the British embassy will only take into account any evidence from when your girlfriend was 18.
Do not get married as this will not help you get a visa. The youngest age you can get a Thai wife back to the UK to live is 21.

1. That you are in a real relationship
2. That Your Thai girlfriend is not being trafficked for the reason of working illegally
3. That Your Thai girlfriend partner will be safe while visiting you
4. That Your Thai girlfriend will not be a burden on the state
5. That Your Thai girlfriend can return at any time to Thailand
6. That Your Thai girlfriend will return within the time given on the visa application

Part of our service is to satisfy the embassy on all 6 concerns that they have.

1. We give both you and Your Thai girlfriend a complete list of documents that will be needed
2. We check every document to ensure there is no information that will jeopardise the visa
3. We make sure that you do not make any mistakes by ensuring you understand what is required and what the embassy will not accept
4. We tell you what is missing from the application and what steps you need to take to fill the gaps
5. We write your sponsor ship letter
6. We collate and build a complete visa application
7. We will arrange to take Your Thai girlfriend to Bangkok to have their biometric information taken
8. We make the visa application on your behalf
9. We track the application
10. We collect the passport and arrange for Your Thai girlfriend to collect the passport with the visa already issued

What you need to do

1. Start getting together as many of the documents and information that we have asked for
2. Follow our instructions on what you should be doing to

Ensure that a UK visa application will be successful and your Thai girlfriend will be with you in the UK

The UK Border agency does not make it hard for people that qualify to get a visa to travel to the UK. The main objective of the British embassy and the UK border agency is to weed out the people that have no real reason to travel to the UK. There are many rules and regulations stipulating in what situation people can be granted a visa for the UK.

If a person making an application does not fit within the guidelines and rules then the visa will be denied. This does not make getting a Thai person a visa for the UK easy or hard, it lays out a set of rules that you must adhere to.

I tell people every day, the main reason people are denied visas is as a result of a bad understanding of what is expected from you. People blindly fill out legal UK application forms, many times not providing information that they could have easily supplied; resulting with a visa refusal.

If you have a Thai girlfriend, you are in full time employment, have a home in the UK, you will if done correctly be able to get a visa for the UK

All that you need is a set of rules that you adhere to, the unprinted set of rules that the UK border agency work to, so you will be able to give them the information that they require and you will be given a visa.

How hard is it for a Thai person to get a visa for the UK

Getting a visa for the UK is not hard for any Thai person that can pass the visa test.
It is not hard for any person that cannot pass the test, it is just impossible.

A good visa consultant will be able to work with you so you can create a profile with supporting documents and evidence that will result in a positive outcome.

I do not know how to prove that my Thai girlfriend will return to Thailand

I do not know how to prove that my Thai girlfriend will return to Thailand, but because she has a 3 year old daughter, surly the embassy will see that she will have to return to Thailand. She loves her daughter and would never leave her.

Answer to question My Thai girlfriend has a child, does this prove she will return to Thailand

From the basic information given in your question, I am not certain that your Thai girlfriend will be granted a UK visitor’s visa. I will email you with more questions to give you a better idea, but to answer the basic questions.

Your Girlfriend will return to Thailand at the end of the UK Visitor visa.

As you have rightly noted, the British embassy require a strong amount of evidence to suggest that your Girlfriend will return to Thailand at the end of the UK Visitor visa. Your Thai girlfriend has a daughter, but this is not evidence to suggest that she will infact return to Thailand. You stated that she would not leave her daughter, I guess that your girlfriend works in Pattaya while her child is in the Thai village with the grandparents. If this is the case your girlfriend has left her child already. From the British embassy’s point of view, what is the difference between leaving your child to work in Pattaya or leaving your child to work in the UK.

Having a daughter is not evidence that your Thai girlfriend will return to Thailand, however It will show that she has a strong connection to Thailand

Why would your Thai girlfriend want to leave the UK?

It is obvious that more money can be earnt in the UK; so why would your Thai girlfriend want to leave the UK? Every year Thai ladies enter the UK on a valid visitor’s visa and disappear working illegally; sending money home to the Village; to their familys. In some cases the ladies remain in the UK for many years undetected and finally return to Thailand when they have sent home millions of Thai Baht. The money would have been used to buy land, build a home and set up a new lifestyle.

Having a daughter is not evidence that your Thai girlfriend will return to Thailand

Having a daughter is not evidence that your Thai girlfriend will return to Thailand, however It will show that she has a strong connection to Thailand. Thought this information can be used both for and against the application.

This application is going to need more than just a daughter and more than you talk on the phone every day. Showing a real relationship is a good starting point. Though do not get conned into buying land or a house for your Thai girlfriend. Your girlfriend will not need a house or land to get a UK visitor’s Visa.

What is the quickest UK Visa to get for my Thai Girlfriend?
The quickest and cheapest UK visa available to your Thai girlfriend is a UK Tourist visa also known as a UK Visitors Visa.

How long does it take to apply for a UK Tourist Visa

Throughout the year the British embassy take different amount of times to process a UK tourist visa application, but as of writing this article December 2009, it takes roughly 10 working days to get answer from the British Embassy.

What about applying for a UK Fiancee visa.

A UK Fiancee visa is different class of visa and is in the same class system as a UK Settlement Visa. A settlement visa and fiancée visa both take more than 30 days to get a response from the British embassy. Not only does this type of visa take longer to process, there are more checks and there for many more reasons why the visa will be refused. Not only is a settlement – fiancée more difficult to apply for; they take longer, they are also much more expensive to apply For.

A Visa company has told me not to apply for a Tourist Visa.

There are only one of three reasons why a Visa company will tell you not to apply for Uk Tourist Visa – UK Visitors Visa.

• The visa company earns more money applying for different visas such as fiancée of settlement visas
• The visa company do not know how to apply for a UK tourist visa
• Because you have informed them you wish to marry in the UK

What is the quickest UK visa to get for my Thai girlfriend?

The quickest visa to apply for is a UK tourist visa. It costs less, not as much evidence is needed and you will get the result form the British embassy much quicker.

Our advice to you, if your Thai girlfriend has never visited you in the UK before, gets a UK tourist visa first. Getting a Tourist visa first gives you credibility later on with the embassy. If at a later time you decide that you would like your Thai girlfriend or wife to live with you full time in the UK you can show that the relationship has grown and that a Fiancee visa is the correct visa.

These are the facts about UK Holiday visa for Thai girlfriend

The Visa application has to be made in Thailand at the British Embassy in Bangkok. The visa application is for the Thai girlfriend and not the British boyfriend. This is the most misunderstood area of the visa application and why most visas are refused. British men wrongly believe as they have a house, job and money that the embassy will issue the Thai girlfriend a visa, but this is inaccurate. The British boyfriend ie the sponsor is taken into account, but not to the degree most people in Pattaya would have you believe.

A UK holiday visa is also known as a visitor visa or a UK tourist visa. The tourist visa is issued for a total of six months. The Thai girlfriend will be able to travel to the UK within that 6 month period, but must return to Thailand before or at the end of the visa period.

If you plan to arrange a UK tourist visa start the process early. Remember the old saying the early bird catches the worm, this is very much the case with visa applications. The area of the application which takes the most time is demonstrating that the relationship is real. Most visa applications that we deal with take 4 weeks from start to finish, however if the relationship lacks evidence then the process will take longer.

Thai Girlfriend issued a Tourist Visa

When a Thai girlfriend is issued a UK Tourist visa, she will only be able to travel to the UK and Northern Ireland. Even though the UK is a member of the EU, a British tourist visa will only allow travel to the UK.

The UK recently introduced new immigration rules, part of the rules are to ensure that all foreign nationals applying for a tourist or settlement visa must have fingers prints taken as part of the visa application.

Your Thai girlfriend will need to have her finger prints taken as part of the UK Tourist visa application

A good piece of advice to take on board is to ensure that your Thai girlfriend has money in her bank account; the immigration officer likes to see that if while in the UK she needs to return home for any reason, she has the money to independently change her air ticket or to purchase a new air ticket.

A UK tourist visa application made at the British embassy in Bangkok takes normally 5 working days to receive an outcome.

Now you know more about the UK Tourist visa rules for you Thai girlfriend, find out if she will be issued with a visa.

Every day Thai citizens are refused UK visas for simple applying for the wrong visa. Many UK sponsors (boyfriend) are advised by friends or visa consultants to apply for a fiancee visa first. As this is the most likely visa to be issued. But this is not the case.

A fiancee visa is issued for 6 months and will allow your Thai girlfriend to visit the UK and get married. But at the end of the 6 months must return to the UK

If your Thai girlfriend has not been to the UK before, I would strongly suggest that you do not apply for a fiancee visa first. Lets look at the reasons why. When you apply for a UK fiancee visa, you are suggesting that you plan on getting married in the UK. You are saying that your relationship is at a level where you wish to commit the rest of your life to one another. Even though your Thai girlfriend has never spent time with you in the UK, seen how you live, met your family. The question here is does your Thai girlfriend really know enough about you to be able to really commit to marriage. From a visa application point of view this is the wrong visa to apply for and in many instances will end with a refusal.

Getting a fiancee visa is very difficult and will need much more evidence than if applying for a tourist visa. The visa officer may need more evidence to suggest that the now Thai bride will return to Thailand at the end of the visa period.

The best UK visa to apply for first is a UK tourist visa. With a tourist visa the Thai citizen can arrive in the UK have a holiday, there is a lot of evidence that is needed for a tourist visa, but for the first visa it is the easier of the two. A tourist visa is more likely to be granted on the first visit to the UK than a fiancee.

The best UK visa to apply for first

After the Thai citizen has visited the UK on a tourist visa and returned to Thailand, if you plan on marrying in the UK then a Fiancee visa can be applied for. On this application you would suggest that your Thai girlfriend visited you in the UK, enjoyed the British culture, your family and your way of life. On returning to Thailand the relationship continued and bloomed and you are now ready to get married.

Over the last decade there has been an increased amount of Thai girlfriends applying for a UK Tourist Visa

The early part of the 2000’s saw a drop in the cost or air travel making it affordable for working class and people with small businesses from the UK to travel to the UK for holidays and tourism. Thailand’s tourism industry grew. Many of the visiting men from the UK came for a holiday but left with much more.

The Thai culture is very different from that of the west. Sex being more available without the shame the west put upon it. The British men arriving in the holiday destinations like Bangkok, Patpong, Pattaya have little resilience to the charms of the local Thai ladies. Within hours many men are confusing lust with love. The holiday ends and the man returns to the UK heartbroken and lonely.

The phone calls begin with the Thai girlfriend telling him how much she loves and misses him. Finally he completely falls in love with her and wants her to visit the UK
In the situation there is only one visa available for a Thai girlfriend wishing to visit England, UK Tourist Visa.

The Thai girlfriend must apply for the UK Tourist visa

The Thai girlfriend must apply for the UK Tourist visa at the British embassy in Bangkok. The form must be filled completely in English and if the UK immigration officer can request an interview with the Thai girlfriend.

Any incorrect information given on the visa form, during the interview or lack of evidence to back up the relationship, the visa will be refused and the Thai girlfriend will have to start the complete visa application over again.