Most men think by filling in a UK holiday visa application form and giving a copy of a bank account with 10 or 20 thousand pounds in that their girlfriend will be given a visa. To there dismay they will find this is not correct.

A great way to show the embassy you are in a real relationship would be to book into a Holiday Villa Pattaya or Jomtien

Part of the application is to prove that you are not people smuggling, a large bank account does not prove that, it just proves you have money. How to prove that you are in a relationship with your Thai girlfriend Time is the greatest evidence that you can provide. Knowing your Thai girlfriend for 6 months – 12 months, with lots of corresponding phone calls and emails will demonstrate that you keep in contact. This is something that most men understand. Another way to demonstrate you are in a relationship is how you book your accommodation.

If you were travelling to Thailand with a woman from the UK you would check into all hotels under both names, that is the male and female name. But checking in on your own name only could suggest that you are in Thailand and having different company back to your room.

Book into a Holiday Villa Pattaya or Jomtien.

A great way to show the embassy you are in a real relationship would be to book into a Holiday Villa Pattaya or Jomtien. Firstly imagine the experience of spending time in a Private Holiday villa, with bedrooms, living areas and Kitchen instead of a one room hotel. You and your girlfriend will get to know each other a lot better spending time in a Holiday home against staying in a hotel.

Believe it or not a holiday villa in many cases will cost no more than staying in a single room hotel of the same quality. Look at this holiday villa Jomtien

No Matter if a Hotel, apartment or Holiday Villa Pattaya ensure you book in using both names and keep all receipts of your stay, at the time of the application showing you stay in the same accommodation together will go along way.

My girlfriend and I talk every day on Skype and also send emails. I have visited her 3 times so far and plan on returning to Thailand in March 2010. Our relationship has really grown. I would like to know can I get a UK tourist visa for my 17 year old Thai girlfriend.

The minimum age a British sponsor in a relationship can arrange for a UK tourist visa for a Thai girlfriend is 19 years of age

The minimum age a British sponsor in a relationship can arrange for a UK tourist visa for a Thai girlfriend is 19 years of age, Though Thai families that are wealthy can apply for parent and children to travel to the UK when the children are any age.

The restriction in this case is the relationship. The British embassy will not allow a British man to sponsor a Thai girl under the age of 18. 19 is the age to apply for a visa which would give you a year to keep evidence that is needed.

Marriage will also not help in this case. The British embassy has a strict rule stating that any foreign national cannot relocate to the UK via a spouse visa if under the age of 21. This means even if you marry your Thai girlfriend she will not be able to live in the UK until the age of 21.
Minimum Thai relationship age for UK visa

• Thai girlfriend must be at least 19 to get a UK Visa
• Thai wife must be at least 21 to get a UK marriage Visa

I am coming back to Thailand in February 2010 to see my Thai girlfriend. We met 2 years ago and we fell in love at first sight. I call her ever day and email her most days. In the last 2 years I have been back to Thailand 4 times and visited her family in the village.

When I return from Thailand this time, I would like to bring my girlfriend back for a holiday

How to get a UK Visitors visa for my thai girlfriend

The important thing about getting a visa is being ready. You have four weeks until you get here, in that time you could start to collect all of the documents that will be needed to prove that you are and will be a good sponsor.

If done correctly we will be able to make the application after you arrive in Thailand getting you a six month UK tourist visa for your Thai girlfriend. She will then be able to return to the UK with you.

Part of our UK Visitor visa service includes

• Instructing you on what documents are needed.
• Checking you documents to ensure that they meet the British embassies requirement
• Translate all of your girlfriend’s documents
• Prepare the application
• Take your Thai partner to the VFS office in Bangkok and arrange for the Biometric information to be taken
• Make the visa application
• Track the application
• Collect the visa when it is ready

If you would like more information please let me know

When you make apply for a UK visitor’s visa, you will have to prove that you are in a relationship with your Thai girlfriend. We recommend printing all emails and using them as part evidence of contact. Emails are great as they have a date and time stamp. The British visa office will be able to track through the emails and see how long you have been in contact. The longer the better.

We had a man walk into our Pattaya Visa office this week with a visa refusal and a very sour face. He had made the application himself with the help of his Thai girlfriend. All of the documents he thought would be needed at the time of the application he sent to his Thai girlfriend in Pattaya via post. This included all of the emails that he had sent to her over the last 6 months.
The visa office looked through the emails and came to one email that the British Sponsor had sent to his girlfriend. The damaging line read

“My sister has a flower shop and when you come you can work there for some of the week”

Email was reason for my Thai girlfriend being refused UK visitor’s Visa

Obviously a Uk visitor’s visa allows the holder to travel to the UK to visit friends, family and holiday. There are strong rules against any person entering the UK and illegally working on a visitor’s visa. The email the sponsor had sent to his girlfriend and included in the application had given the visa office the impression that the Thai girlfriend was travelling to the UK to work illegally in a flower shop. Not being allowed to work with this type of visa the only option the visa office had was to refuse the visa, which would stop the Thai girlfriend travelling to the UK so be with her boyfriend.

Part of what we do is check every document, letter and email that you submit to us to ensure there is no incriminating information that will result in a visa being refused.
Of course if this Thai girl would have been caught in the UK working illegally she would have been deported and probably banned from travelling to the UK for 10 years. But she didn’t even get to the UK because of a bodged visa application.

Another Thai girlfriend refused a UK Visa -

I applied for the 5th UK visitor’s visa for my Thai girlfriend January 2010. The first two visas we applied for we had used a Key visa company in Thailand. After the second application I had a good idea of what the embassy need to see and how to put it together. Infact Key visa had given me the complete application back along with the passport.

The third and fourth visa sailed through with my Thai girlfriend getting a visa every time and coming to the UK. My girlfriend never over stayed her visa and often return months before the visa expired.
So my Thai girlfriend applied for another UK visitors using all the information that we have provided previously, though we did provide updated information like phone records and bank statements.

I was that certain that the visa would be issued that I booked the return air ticket with Thai airways.
We picked up the passport and visa decision for the VFS in Bangkok and to our absolute horror have found that my girlfriend has been refused the visa.

The reason we have been given for the refusal is that we have misused the UK visitors visa. On the last visit my girlfriend stayed in the UK for 5 months. I didn’t think this would be a problem as she did return to Thailand within the time stated on the visa. But from what I have learnt since, even though you can get a visa for 6 months, most people are not able to holiday for six months at one time. My girlfriend did and when returned to Thailand waited the basic six month period and then reapplied.

So after returning to Thailand on her last visit we waited 6 months before making a new application just to be turned down. I do not want to marry my girlfriend, but would like for her to spend time with me in the UK. What options are available?

no to people that misuse a UK visitors visa

The British embassy will say no to people that misuse a UK visitors visa. That is to say, any Thai citizen that is granted a UK visitors visa and either spends more time in the UK than any normal tourist could afford, or a Thai citizen that constantly applies for and then travels to the UK as a tourist.

When the application is made, information is given about the Thai’s job, income and savings. If for instance like in many cases the Thai citizen has a low paying job but then remains in the UK for 4 – 5 months, on the next application the embassy will wonder how can any person with a low paying job afford to stay in the UK for such a length of time. They will also take the view that normal business practice will not allow for staff members to have months off from work. If the Thai national spends too much time on vacation in the UK, it is possible that they would lose their job and then remain in the UK trying to earn money in the Black market.
Any UK visa can be misused and constantly applying and visiting England for long periods of time will show that misuse is occurring.

If you have a Thai girlfriend and you wish for her to visit you in the UK, after 3 – 3 tourist visas, you will be advised to apply for a spouse visa, but to do this you will need to marry.

For more information about visitors visas UK tourist Visa

Obviously this is for long term security reasons. Every year certain Thai girlfriends where travelling to the UK on a false passport and then working illegally in the UK, sending home illegally earnt money. Many of the girls are caught and sent back to Thailand not being allowed to return to Thailand for 10 years.
When any person arrives at a British port with a Thai passport, their finger prints are taken again and checked against the finger prints on file, the visa officer will also have a digital photo that was taken on the day of the application. All of this is to ensure that the Thai national trying to enter the UK is the person that was issued with the visa.

Your Thai girlfriend can only travel to the uk using her own passport,

Your Thai girlfriend can only travel to the uk using her own passport, if she obtains a visa and another persons obtains her passport, they will not be able to enter the UK with your girlfriends passport as the biometric information will not match.

If you Thai girlfriend while in the UK commits any crime, it will be easier for the police to identify who your girlfriend is, or if any person claims to be your Thai girlfriend the police will know that the person is trying to use your girlfriends identity

I was really angry as I telephone call my girlfriend every day, sometimes two or three times, but because I am on a pay as you go phone tariff with Vodaphone wasn’t able to supply any invoices or bills of the phone calls.

At the time we didn’t think to include emails that we send to each other. Normally before I go to bed about 11pm UK time I write my girlfriend an email so she gets it when she wakes up, and then she emails me back so I get an email from her when I wake up. In my email box I have hundreds of emails.
If my Thai girlfriend reapply’s for a visitors visa to the UK and supply a copy of all of the emails will that be enough to show communication or will the UK border agency need even more information.

Applying for a Visitors visa to the UK for my Thai girlfriend Answer

Showing communication between you and your girlfriend when applying for a visitors visa to the UK is the most important information you can provide. Without it as you have sadly learnt, your girlfriend will be refused. Leaving you sitting in the UK lonely and heart broken.
Supply as much information as you can, emails phone bills, letters

Even when you make calls from a pay as you go phone, you can contact your telephone provider and request a copy of all of the calls you have made. There is a cost involved maybe even as much as £75. But without the telephone calls the emails will not be strong enough evidence.

Your letter to the phone company could read

My Telephone Number : 0044 78 132 123 (replace with your number)
My Thai girlfriends Telephone Number : 0066 123 123 (replace with her number)

To whom it may concern.
I am applying for a visitors visa to the UK for my Thai girlfriend and will need to provide the UK border agency with all of the phone calls I have made to my girlfriend. Could you please provide me with a record of phone calls made from my telephone over the last 6 months.
Thank you in advance
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Many people dismiss getting correct advice from a visa consultant in Thailand, though the reason no communication was provided between you and her was because of the lack of understanding you both have. This application could have been successful on the first attempt if you would have had better advice. Now you have to reapply wasting time and money.

Preparation is the only way you are going to get a visa for your Thai girlfriend. Bad preparation could result with either your girlfriend being interviewed or being refused. The problem with an interview is the trick questions that will be put to your girlfriend, any irregularity with her answers will end with the visa being denied. The embassy staff are well trained and are known for asking difficult questions.

The easiest visa to get is a UK tourist visa. You will need to convince the embassy that you are her are in a real relationship. You will also have the more difficult task of trying to convince them that your girlfriend will leave England within the correct time frame and return home. There is no short cut or easy steps to getting the visa.

Normally it takes the embassy about 10 working days to give an answer to this visa, making a tourist visa the quickest visa to apply for. It is also the quickest visa to be refused.

Documents the embassy will need

• Bank statements
• employment/income details
• Copy of your passport
• proof of relationship ie letters, phone bills, photos, emails
• Her employment details

The above is not a conclusive list and depending on what you can provide the list will change.
If you have not known each other long enough the embassy will think that she is only using you to get to England so she can work and send money home her to family. (This happens a lot with Thai girls )
You will benefit from using the services of a visa consultant in Thailand as they can ensure that you have the correct documents together and set out the application in a clear way so the visa officer can come to an easier and quick response. A visa consultant will also ensure that your girlfriend will not be asked for an interview. This in its self will enhance your change of obtaining the visa by a large margin. No trick questions means no wrong answers.
If you decide to use the services of a visa consultant, do not deal with any company that asks for full money upfront.

Some of the visa consultants in Pattaya will ask for only a small deposit and then the balance when the visa is in your girlfriend’s passport. This is in a way a guarantee of their work as they will not get paid unless they get the visa for your girlfriend.

The final answer to the questions

What’s the easiest way to get a visa for my Thai girlfriend so she can to england?

The easiest way yo get a visa for your thai girlfriend so she can come to England.
Apply for a UK Visitors visa – UK tourist visa.
Find a visa consultant in Thailand that deals mainly with the UK, only use their services if they do not ask for all of the payment upfront.
Get them to build a UK tourist visa – UK visitor’s visa case for your Thai girlfriend.
Done correctly the embassy will issue your girlfriend a visa

It cannot be stressed enough, do not marry a person just so they can visit you in the UK. Even when you are married to a Thai lady, they will still require a visa to be able to enter the UK.

The basic requirements set out by the UK Border agency include

• While in the UK without help from public or government funds you will be able to support yourselves.
• In the UK you have a place to live which is suitable and is only lived in by you and your family. Any dependents that live with you do so without any help from government or public funds.
• You have suitable accommodation, which is owned or lived in only by you and your household, and where you and your dependents can live without any help from public funds
• Both the husband and the Thai wife must be 21 years old or older

On being issued the visa you both intended to remain together and live permanently as husband and wife.
In most cases the first UK settlement visa that will be issued will allow your Thai wife to live with you in the UK for two years. Toward the expiry of the visa, if you are still living together and married, you can apply for permanent leave to remain, which means your wife will then be able to live the rest of her life in the UK

If you and your husband, wife or civil partner have been living together outside the UK for four years or more, and you meet all the necessary requirements to stay permanently in the UK, you may be granted indefinite leave to enter. These requirements include showing that you have the necessary level of knowledge of the English language and life in the UK (see relevant section of this guidance for more information).

The UK Border agency will decide if you are to be issued with a UK visa based on the information given at the time of the application. They have the right to issue or refuse the visa without you attending an interview.

It is important that the application is well presented with all the documents that will be needed. Never give false information with a visa application because if found, the UK border agency have every right to refuse your visa and Ban you from coming to the UK for 10 years.

This rule applies for the followings visas

• UK Settlement Visa
• UK Tourist Visa
• UK Spouse Visa
• UK Visitors Visa
• UK Fiancee Visa

No matter what UK Visa your Thai girlfriend is applying for , you the sponsor will not be able to talk to or attend the embassy. The embassy infact do not need to see you and would turn you away.
Many UK sponsors take it very personally when the British embassy turn them away, often the sponsor has flown out to Thailand just to make the visa application.

Remember that the visa application being made is for your Thai girlfriend. The British embassy may contact her while processing the application; they might even ask your Thai girlfriend in for an interview. If this happens, even at this time the British embassy will not talk to you.

On occasions the British embassy may call you to confirm details about you the sponsor.

Do I have to be in Thailand to get a visa for my Thai girlfriend?

You will not need to be in Thailand at any time when your Thai girlfriend is applying for a UK Visa.
Your Thai girlfriend will not need to attend the British embassy unless they contact her for an interview.