ChatterBank1 min ago
Home Office
how can the south arfican home office take money out of your account by mistake and say it will repay you within 90 days this was last December we have the mp helping us but to no joy they just say we dealing with it,surely they cant treat us like that.
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Are you sure that your friend was actually dealing with a valid South African agency, rather than a fraudulent website. (There are plenty of them out there!). For UK applicants, South African visa applications are handled by VFS Global. (They're entirely reputable and provide visa services for several countries). Payments are made to 'VF Services UK...
00:02 Sat 10th Sep 2016
The way people normally do this ( if the newspapers are to be believed) is to get her OH here and then once here apply for him to stay under the 'right to a family life' of the 'Human Rights Act'. Should not be too difficult if she is a British citizen and they are legally married. Even easier if he gets her pregnant!
^^ Your thinking along the same lines as me bednobs. This is sounding more like a 'sob story scam', too many things seem wrong. The amount of cash is far too high even if it was taken twice and then the business about the 'South African' Home office and the problems getting a refund.
sunnyp have you any evidence that what your friend says is true? This sounds like a con job where you have fallen for a 'sob story' and loaned your friend cash she will not repay. It sounds more like a string of poor excuses for not paying you back rather than actual fact!
sunnyp have you any evidence that what your friend says is true? This sounds like a con job where you have fallen for a 'sob story' and loaned your friend cash she will not repay. It sounds more like a string of poor excuses for not paying you back rather than actual fact!
Look here
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A standard visa for a South African Passport holder to visit the UK is just £87.
There are other visas that last up to 5 years but you can only stay 6 months each time.
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A standard visa for a South African Passport holder to visit the UK is just £87.
There are other visas that last up to 5 years but you can only stay 6 months each time.
hiya guys,i did see an e-mail from the home office,she only wanted him to come on a 6month visa,i contacted my mp up north to ask if he could ask Liverpool mp to see whats going on he couldn't due to protocol ! surely to god the Liverpool mp would know by now after months of speaking to my friend if she were guenuine,why would you put yourself through all this stress?maybe I should speak to him,but he prob tell me nothing!!
sunnyp says her friend only wants him to come on a 6 month visa. I checked the home office web site and that is £87. A South African passport holder can't get a UK work visa unless they have specialist job offer . The way to do it is to get a 6 month visa and then ask for an extension. There is even a section in the Home Office web site about applying for extensions once you are in the UK.
god only knows whats going on!! he didn't come on the visa as apparently it hadndt been sorted in the time scale given whatever that is?im as fed up with it all,i do appreciate your help,she may as you say have been scammed but as I said before surely the mp would know by now if this was the case he been helping her for long time now!!
Sorry sunnyp , I really hope I am wrong but, I am thinking it is not the 'Home' office that is causing the problems but your 'friend'.
I am thinking she has borrowed the money and can't pay it back, so now she is just thinking up excuses to give you to explain why she can't give you your money back.
All this about the South African home office that is really the UK Home office in Liverpool.The payment that is far larger than the actual amount needed for a visa( even if they did take it twice) and the MP who is unable to find any information about a refund from a British Government dept.
It is just too much for me to believe it is all a co-incidence.
Either your friend is the victim of a very large scam or your friend is not telling the truth.
Just another point that I have just seen on your last answer.
Someone on a 6 month visitor visa CAN NOT work while here in the UK.
To do so would be illegal for both the person and the employer, and result in the visa holder being deported.
A work visa as I explained is only available if the South African passport holder has a job offer for a specialist job in the UK . They are VERY hard to obtain.
I am thinking she has borrowed the money and can't pay it back, so now she is just thinking up excuses to give you to explain why she can't give you your money back.
All this about the South African home office that is really the UK Home office in Liverpool.The payment that is far larger than the actual amount needed for a visa( even if they did take it twice) and the MP who is unable to find any information about a refund from a British Government dept.
It is just too much for me to believe it is all a co-incidence.
Either your friend is the victim of a very large scam or your friend is not telling the truth.
Just another point that I have just seen on your last answer.
Someone on a 6 month visitor visa CAN NOT work while here in the UK.
To do so would be illegal for both the person and the employer, and result in the visa holder being deported.
A work visa as I explained is only available if the South African passport holder has a job offer for a specialist job in the UK . They are VERY hard to obtain.
thanks again,i hope we are wrong! it has crossed my mind,i wouldn't mind ive spoken to her father in sa army and husband who thanked me for helping their daughter/wife for helping her,so,what do I do?its very difficult for me,i wouldn't think she would do that to me,she goes to church! you be having a laugh now ha ha will keep you posted,thanks
Sorry, but I don't see why or how your MP would be able help you here. It seems to me that it is the friend in South Africa whom you lent the money to that owes you the money. If the person in South Africa did pay the South African Home Office and get charged twice (which I now doubt) then I can't see why your MP would get involved and I doubt the SA Home Office would deal with him. If it was actually the Liverpool office then i still don't see how your MP could act when it's a matter affecting a SA citizen and not his own constituent.
I suspect the MP just doesn't know how to help or doesn't really know all the facts.
If you want your money back you need to demand it from your friend, seek a legal recovery (which may not be possible for someone in SA or may not be worth pursuing anyway)- or you may just have to mentally write the money off.
I suspect the MP just doesn't know how to help or doesn't really know all the facts.
If you want your money back you need to demand it from your friend, seek a legal recovery (which may not be possible for someone in SA or may not be worth pursuing anyway)- or you may just have to mentally write the money off.
