My wife applied for a UK settlement visa from Moscow in October. Annoyingly she received a 'refusal of entry clearance' yesterday on the grounds that her sponsor (myself) failed to provide the correct documents. The ECO reasons for refusal were:
I am 100% positive that I included the supposedly missing information but that is a mute point now. My questions are as follows:Your sponsor is not exempt from financial requirements as defined paragraph E-ECP.3.3. Your sponsor has not provided bank statements covering the last six months before the date of your application, which show his salary over the corresponding 6 months being paid in to his account as evidence of his income from his employment. Additionally, your sponsor has only provided five months out of his last 6 months payslips, with June 2014 payslip missing. These documents are specified in Imigration Rules in Appendix FM-SE and must be provided. I therefore refuse your application under paragraph EC-P.1.1(d) of Apendix FM of the Immigration Rules. (E-ECP.3.1)
- Will any appeal process accept fresh evidence when reviewing the case? (i.e. can we just submit the 'missing' information with the notice of appeal form). A solicitor that I consulted with said that she is unaware of fresh evidence being accepted.
- If fresh evidence is accepted, what is the likely hood that the appeal will go to a tribunal and how time consuming will this be? I have read about cases where the ECM has overridden the decision fairly quickly upon the offering of missing evidence- is this plausible?
- I have also read about attempts to contact the ECM outside of the appeal process, and ask him / her to review the decision based on new evidence? is this plausible? if so, how can I find out who the ECM is and how can I get in touch with them?
Finally, I'd really appreciate any advice / help anyone can give on this, was hoping the missus would be back for Xmas but its looking not looking likely!
Kind Regards
Nick