Dear members,
I am looking for some advice on a very difficult situation that (with hindsight) I and my fiancé stupidly got into.
I do apologise for the lenght of this post but it will explain the background. Before I met my fiancé he paid an agent in India to get him a holiday visa to the uk, when he landed he was to go to a certain place and take part in a first aid course, from there he would be given a job. What will not surprise anyone here is that the job never materialized and he was left stranded. Through a friend he found an agent in London who picked him up and took him to a boarding house. He was then given hotel work. It will be no surprise to anyone again that the conditions were terrible and at the first opportunity he got out and came to work (for the same agent) at a hotel in Scotland.
This is where we met. Although at the time of meeting I did not know that he was not here on a work permit and had overstayed his visa, he told me before we started to date. At the time I naively believed that things would work out ok and fell in love. After a year the hotel were tipped off that they were to be investigated by the home office and they got rid of all the immigrants not holding a work permit or student visa, this included my fiancé. After a while he found another job but it made us realize how precarious our situation was, so we decided that it would be best if he went home and made a proper and genuine application to come back.
Now if the story so far does not mark us out as stupid and naive then the next part certainly will. We were both so scared of him being deported and banned from coming back that he sent his passport home and paid for his expired visa to be stamped with an exit stamp showing that he left before it ran out. A new visa was then put in and an entry stamp put on it (a friend of his had done this with success 2 months previous so we felt confident it would work). So he bought his ticket home and went to the airport. Everything went smoothly and his flight from Scotland to Dubai and then Dubai to Delhi went without any incident. However, at immigration in Delhi the officer took one look at his passport and that was it. He spent the next two weeks in a prison in Delhi, which he still will not talk about to this day.
His mother found the money to bail him out and bribe the police officer, but the lawyer he has I have no confidence in. He has been gone for two years now. He is just living back at home and working away. I have been to see him twice, the second visit he proposed to me, and we talk on the phone every day. There seems to be no progress on his case at all (he was charged with fraud and they took his passport) and I don’t know what to do.
Some people say I should just give up as he has no hope now, and I have seriously thought about going to live in India with him, the only problem there being me trying to find a job. I would just like to ask if there is any hope for us finding a path out of this mess? For him to come home to me here where I have a good job and a settled life?
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