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To: The Home Office
Stop the Home Office refusing holiday visas for family visits to the UK without good reason.
Reverse their injudicious decisions, apologise and recognise the harm they cause by issuing refusals for unjust reasons that have no basis in fact.
Why is this important?
In my wife's case:
My wife’s elderly retired parents have been refused entry to the United Kingdom for a family holiday.
My wife, is from the Philippines she has a British Passport and has been resident in the UK for a period approaching 10 years, we have been married for the same period.
We have paid the application process fees to the Home Office fees amounting to hundreds of pounds, this fee is non-returnable.
We have more than sufficient funds in the bank, we are financing the return airfare together with all other expenses, the Home Office have my bank statements, my bank account has never been over-drawn in the past 50 years. I am a retired licensed debt counsellor and finance broker; my credit rating is irrefutably shown as being at the highest possible level.
Amongst other shameful, fatuous and humiliating reasons for entry refusal is:
1. They are not satisfied with my wife’s immigration status although she has a British Passport!
2. They are not satisfied that we will not resort to the use of public funds.
3. My wife’s father is unemployed, yes of course he is, he’s retired.
4. Quote from the refusal: I am not satisfied you have shown that your ties to Philippines (or elsewhere) are sufficient incentive to leave the UK at the end of your proposed visit. On balance of probabilities, I am therefore not satisfied that you are genuinely seeking entry as a visitor or will to leave the UK after a limited period. Your application for a visit visa is refused under paragraph V4.2.
Why would they want to live here, the Home Office acknowledge they live in a mortgage free house in the Philippines which we purchased for them to live in.
5. Mine and my wife’s bank balance fluctuates, why would they not? We run a business, of course it fluctuates, but it's always thousands of pounds in credit, they know that, because they have originals of bank statements and savings accounts.
Isn’t about time the Home Office stopped issuing blanket holiday visa refusals in respect of British citizens married to wives with British passports without good reason and then compounding the humiliation by expecting us to pay more fees to appeal their absurdly unsound and injudicious decisions.
