Re: Back home from Pakistan and feeling low :(
Sazzie - have you considered submitting a fresh application? New applications for spouse settlement visas should get processed in under 12 weeks (my husband got his within 8 weeks), the key is to provide all the proper paperwork. You don't have to withdraw your appeal and can have that running alongside the fresh application so even if, god forbid, your second application were to also be refused then you wouldn't have lost anything.....well apart from the application fee of course.
As long as you can prove that you and your husband can live here independentley without any financial support from the state then it doesn't matter if you work part time or full time or even work at all. If you have parents who are financially stable and are willing to provide all the necessary documents to prove it then there's no reason why the embassy can refuse the application on those grounds. Good luck with your job hunt and if you want to get started working asap then why not join a temping agency in order to start earning and getting payslips right away.
I would advise against doing what a previous poster has suggested about getting fake payslips. It's illegal and dishonest and if you're going to go to all the effort and expense of having gorged payslips made up then why not just go out and work properly?
Hope it all works out in the end.
Hi Brit Chick, there isnt goig to be an appeal now i'm afriad. my idiot of a solicitor didn't file the appeal in time so now i have no choice but to make a fresh application. Was really upset and hubby was too but trying to stay positive.
I've got a job interview this tuesday, and also applying to other places.
The temp agency, wont the embassy try and make out that temping work isnt stable and theres no guarantee as to whether i'll get a job after one ends? i dont really have much experience (actually, none lol)of temping agencies,but i'm willing to try it!