UK visa refusal due to wrong record from 9 years ago
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- Aparna Patel
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- 19 Jul, 2023
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So, this just got resolved positively:
We got a solicitor involved, they recommended:
- applying again
- if that fails, a judicial review (that’s a different thing than an appeal or an administrative review)
For both, knowing what information exactly UKVI used for their previous decision would be quite useful, and that can be obtained for free with a subject access request.
Instead of waiting on the SAR documents to get back to us, my SO submitted a new visa application right away (with the information that has been provided above in the question and a cover letter). The decision was positive in this case and the visa has been granted (which means that luckily plans didn’t have to change),
Though this means that until we’ll see the SAR documents, it will not yet be clear if they had any wrong records on their side or what was actually the explanation for the last refusal.
I might update this when I’ll get that information, and I could also provide a (redacted) copy of the cover letter, if people could find that useful.
Update:
This is the cover letter, attached with the latest application:
We also got the SAR file, and I got 2 interesting findings:
- The mistake in the date (January 2007) doesn’t appear to have been on UKVI’s side: the copy of the application they have lists that date.
- They didn’t retain a copy of the employment confirmation that had been provided in 2009, for this reason I think that to clarify the original mistake it might be better to always provide our copy (even if hopefully that wouldn’t be needed now that the latest application has been successful).
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