UK Visitor Visa refused

5/3/2017 10:15:51 PM

Based on the scans you have provided and a guess on my part leads to the conclusion that the Manila post sent you page 1 of someone else’s refusal and (possibly) page 2 of your own or even page 2 of someone else’s refusal.

  • Manila (identified on the top of page 1) is in charge of processing
    applications submitted in Singapore; applications submitted in China
    go to either Beijing or Shanghai (with the exceptions of Taiwan and
    Hong Kong). So it’s unclear what Manila was doing with a Chinese applicant unless it was submitted by a Chinese national living abroad (in which case the whole paragraph doesn’t make sense).
  • The refusal is missing a paragraph that should have gone between
    the last paragraph on page 1 and the first paragraph on page 2. It
    means they went from preamble to conclusion with no discussion in the middle! This constitutes the major rationale for my ‘guess’.
  • Curiously, the refusal is missing the final boilerplate caveat about
    ‘any future applications…’ Instead, there is a bizarre
    out-of-sequence final paragraph ‘…I have therefore…’. More
    curiously is the alien construction ‘…of the relevant Paragraph
    [sic] of the United Kingdom Immigration Rules    ‘. They don’t make
    grammatical mistakes like that and they either say “UK Immigration
    Rules” or “Immigration Rules”, not “United Kingdom Immigration Rules”.

Hence my guess that there was a mix-up in the mail room along with an egregious screw up in composition. You wrote that you did not use a 3rd party, so we can ‘cautiously’ eliminate a scam operator.

You have two choices at this point…

  1. Submit a fresh application which encloses your refusal notice and
    explains how there was a clear and obvious mistake;
  2. Try and send them everything without making a fresh application and
    hope that they will spot what happened.

You can print out this answer and include it if you think it will help. Neither approach is guaranteed to work, they may have decided to refuse your application and locate the refusal notice you should have received and send it to you. Option 1 is invariably faster. Option 2 has more risk on several fronts, but the choice is yours and we cannot tell which is the best choice without knowing lots of detail.

Personal tip: above all, avoid flaming them or displays of exasperation. Avoid finger pointing or anything at all that might get their backs up. They are intelligent, well-educated, professionals who are capable of recognising a mistake and routing it through the system. If you opt for a fresh application (my personal recommendation) and include your refusal notice they are likely to put it through as a ‘gratis’ application and credit your account accordingly. Insulting them might bring about the same result but why risk it. The best results occur when your text is ultra-sanitary, once again don’t get their backs up.

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