SamUK

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My cousin has arrived from the US this morning @ 8am on a 6 month Visa.

Immigration @ Heathrow have been questioning here since she landed...I think when questioned she panicked and said something wrong..she is young, i think 19.

Questions around where is she staying etc and why is she here for so long..

we have no idea what is happening - called immigration they cross questioned us..and said they will come back to us..


anyone know if anyone has been through anything like this..is there anything that can be done..or is it a wait and see what they decide..?

dpb

What she's doing for 6 months

SamUK

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after checking on the net..that is most likely the question they asked! + i guess who is providing food \ support etc...

she was just staying over - nothing planned in particular. Visiting as we dont get to see each other much..

i think it was noted she was a student too..but she has finished her studies..

is it a bad sign that she has been in there for so many hours?

tubbytommy

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wtf since when did the uk stop people coming in.

I thought we let any old dross in to use our resources for free.

jonc

Does she have a beard?

dpb

At 19 I would hope she doesn't even have top lip foliage

urban

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And a tea towel on her head

f1_fan

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Yes it isn't good. They are looking for a reason for her being here for 6 months and how she is going to support herself etc., but I suspect the main thing they think is she has a boyfriend here. If her story isn't 100% adding up and the answers you or anyone else they contact give don't match hers she may well be refused entry,.

Happened to my business partner's wife (before she was his wife)... they asked her a lot of questions and then contacted us and we were able to match her answers exactly (as they were the truth) so they eventually let her in.... it was touch and go though!

alcazar

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tell her to speak with an Eastern European accent and then ask for benefits.
She'll be in like a shot.

dpb

I bet it'll be a damn site less taxing than a UK citizen trying to get through US immigration

SamUK

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entry denied - she is not allowed to call and is being sent back at 8am in the morning..

any one got any thing usefull for me..? can i contact a lawyer at this stage?

dpb

Maybe you don't know your cousin as well as you thought you did

scoobygaz1

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Sums up this fcuked up country

Oldun

From the BA site..

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/po...onrules/part9/

From US Embassy..
http://london.usembassy.gov/cons_new...to_the_uk.html

f1_fan

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What is the reason for refusal of entry? Where is she now? Can you get there? If so go there and talk to immigration, but make damn sure you trust her 100%!!! You may just be able to change their mind. Long shot, but wirth a try.

Lawyers or the American Embassy would be a good idea, but she'll be gone by the time you can contact one!

mart360

Would have thought you would have been at the airport to meet & greet?

might have stood a better chance of bona fides?


So'k we'll find out the true story when the next season's border patrol is aired


Mart

SamUK

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shes gone...

I spoke to immigration.. ! *****!

2 calls i made, first questions they asked, am i her boyfriend!

Normally you do not need a Visa if you are coming from the US to the UK - but as she said her stay is 6 month - her response (panicked response did not match those of the people they called to confirm..

they said she needs a visa as all these questions are asked in the US..

SamUK

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My wife was there..they would not let her see anyone..and kept her in holding till the next flight..

they would not even let her speak to immigration ..

SamUK

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I did ask them to let he out for a week and that i can guarantee her return...but nope no reason - they said i can not appeal either and the decision is final.

mrmadcap

I disagree, recently went to the US and was pleasantly surprised by how quick we got through immigration on the visa waiver scheme. But I did notice that US nationals went through even quicker via a signed dedicated route.

However on the return back into Manchester we had to wait in a queue for what seemed like eternity, but I did notice the immigrants went through quicker via a signed dedicated route.

I'm thinking (while the Muppet on the desk studied my passport then looked at me then looked at my passport then studied me again) "if I don't get through here where the **** am I going to go", after all, I've only lived, worked, paid tax, national insurance in the UK all my life as has my father and my father's father etc.

They are just going through the motions making you think they are securing the borders while letting in all the non-white immigrants through the 'special' route.

Total inept organisation fecking over it's own law abiding tax paying citizens for the sake of being 'PC'.

f1_fan

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As said in post 8

Thy aren't usually ***** t be fair ... sorry to say, but her replies to their questions must have been inconsistent. We spend enough time on here moaning how they let anyone in so when they don't we also moan... scant consolation in this instance I know!

f1_fan

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That's a fairly hefty and typial mis-representation of the facts. All 3 terminals at Manchester offer 3 times the number of EU passport lanes to the the non-EU. The non-EU appears to sometimes move quicker simply because there are a lot less of them than EU passport holders on most flights. Anyway if you have a chipped passport you don't have to wiat at all as I didn't today... except in Terminal 3 where they have no chip reader currently.

mrmadcap

Nope, afraid not, all EU passport holders were waiting chip or no chip, just keep making the excuses for these useless PC **** tossers.

dpb

Maybe they've cottoned onto the possibility the place is overstuffed as it is with bloaty swearing puser faced head handkerchief wearing peroxide haired orange skinned indigenous,

There, that about covers it

RobsyUK

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Do you know if she is banned from comming back for X amount of years.

How long have you been dating and we need pictures to see IF we would let her in

davegtt

Obviously not going from how this thread has turned out. Just another case of moaning for the sake of it.

hodgy0_2

maybe she lied on her VISA form, <nod nod wink wink>

jonc

May be this is the real reason, personally, I draw the line at dating cousins.

f1_fan

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They cannot be waiting if they have a chipped passport.... waiting for what? FFS I was only there today and have used it at least 6 more times in the last 12 months and never had to wait once. Either stop making **** up to suit you own agenda or maybe you are the f**King problem, not anyone else

RobsyUK

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Have you actually met her in real life? There was one episode of border control where a man was waiting for his girlfriend and it was really a man! He was staying with them with no funds. Actually they let him in so it couldn't of been you.