Anyone overstayed their visa and had trouble leaving uk?

z · Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 5

Try claiming asylum - they won't be able to get rid of you fast enough.

funnybunny · Joined: 01 Apr 2006 Posts: 31

HI
I have a problem also, I am currently on a unmarried partner visa which expires nov 06 however my bf and I just broke up so obviously i cannot apply for leave to remain once the visa expires.

I desperately want to stay and have no idea how, thought about the student or tourist visa? But I need to still be working as I have a lot of debts to pay before I go home (if I have no choice but to go home).

So I don't know how these things work, up to now I have been a pretty good law abiding citizen but I mean I have to stay, I cannot leave with all these debts.

What can I do, if i apply for a student visa would I have had to pay for a course? What about a tourist one?
Main issue is can I still work in the meantime or will the tax people find out (how will they find out if my visa has expired)

Help!!

smurfette · Joined: 29 Aug 2006 Posts: 3

Hi I am a south african in the UK I have overstayed by about 5 years Evil or Very Mad

I have an Irish Grandfather and all the documentation to prove lineage except I cannot apply as I am not legal, I have been trying to get all the documentation together and I am very settled in the UK, does anyone out there know of a case like this where even though the person has overstayed they have the right to be here but because of red-tape I cannot apply ... arrrrrrgggg If I leave now and apply from SA I could face jail time or run the risk of losing a life over here I enjoy so much all because I have run out of visa time getting the required documents to prove my reasons for staying (mental or what)

If anyone knows of a way around this please post a message or even if you want to have a rant

TA

S

wf · Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 58

go home and apply for it. You're stuffed cause they will figure out pretty quickly you're illegal if you apply from here.

shareunlimited123 · Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 1

I agree with WF. The Authorities will very well know it and you will be in trouble

prider101 · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 1

grant i overstayed my student visa.. by 4 months.. i dont know what to do would love to do international travel..i have got clients ready to sponsor my work permit..kindly guide..it should not happen that when i leave it becomes my last travel to uk.. do u have any idea what to do my name is keith..
am orginally from goa ..india. guide pls.
kindly guide if u can
bye

tlrlz82 · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 95

from memory when i left for paris on the euro star i just had a france check not a uk check .. As in French only want to see if your ok to go into there country

good luck .. by the way fuck the saffas on here not all of them just the wankers]

good.speed · Joined: 18 Mar 2007 Posts: 2

i overstayed in uk for 10 months, i leaved the UK on Nov 2005 without any difficulty and got entered in my own as well. my passport was expired on Dec 2005. now i got a new passport(with reference no of old passport on it) in jan 2007. now can i got the tourist visa for UK or US. can i got any problem with my overstay.

glebe_boy · Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2

while on a working holiday visa in years 2002-04 i overstayed by a stupid eventless and boring 'month'. i wasnt working at all i was just hanging around our unit while i waited for my girlfriend to finish her work contract. i hung around like an idiot did nothing and wasted money, i should have gone, but we finally left to go to her home country in denmark for one month before i returned home to oz. but upon leaving scandinavia for my connecting flight in london without even realizing i was heldup at stanstead. i played the dumb obvious excuse that i didnt know and i told them the truth that i wasnt working i was waiting for my mrs to finish work etc. my connecting flight out of london was the following day they let me back in in transit 24hr visa, said it was recorded, and that i couldnt come back for cant remember if it was 3 or 5 years?!?!

the thing is my partner and i are planning on returning end of the year (it will be 3 years by then) to london on a EEA family member visa as she has de facto visa here, will i have a problem getting visa?

if i do get visa is it safe to say i wont have a problem when entering UK or is there a chance i can still be pulled up with a valid visa?

ps. i lost my passport when i returned to oz and i havent left oz since when i returned in mid '04.

peace.

glebe_boy · Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2

*bump*

.....any info regarding this would be greatly appreciated.....

C_T · Joined: 22 Feb 2007 Posts: 32 Location: London

good.speed · Joined: 18 Mar 2007 Posts: 2

i overstayed in uk for 10 months, i leaved the UK on Nov 2005 without any difficulty and got entered in my own as well. my passport was expired on Dec 2005. now i got a new passport(with reference no of old passport on it) in jan 2007. now can i got the tourist visa for UK or US. can i got any problem with my overstay.

thanks for reply in advance

angchi33@yahoo.com.au · Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 1

politician · Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 6632

i cant understand that after all the time people have had in this country enjoying theirselves they dont just go when their time is up surely they should just be grateful for the time they were allowed here.to be frank there isnt enough adequate housing nhs schooling and lots of other things for those of us actually born and raised here so i have no idea why government like to tell other countries that we have lots to offer as people like me are struggling and shoved to the back of the queue because of these people

politician · Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 6632

heres a tip-when your visa runs out go home.stop abusing our system

skillipedia · Joined: 15 Oct 2006 Posts: 93

Anybody reading don's reply will end up commiting suicide! .
Going home is no big deal and they won't take a penny from you, but it's better than being deported!

Sooty & Sweep · Joined: 30 May 2007 Posts: 51

okay, so let me get this straight then,
if my visa runs out and i plan on overstaying for say an extra month or 2,, i'm best off to catch the euro star to france and get a flight back to aus from there??
Surely going to Ireland still means leaving from a UK airport and the risk of immigration picking you up there?
I don't plan on working during that time, just seeing a little more of the uk!!

cynical1 · Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 5

hi every1! just a bit lost here and i would be very gald if someone can help me. iv unintentionally overstayed in the Uk for 7 months, will heathrow airport stamp my passport overstaying and be blacklisted for how many years OR will they just let me go as if nothing happened, i dont think, british govt is that stupid to just let go of someone who breached their law.

btw, i stopped working since my visa expired. but i would still like to come back and stay legally in the UK as my entire family have already migrated here. i have no one back home. Sad

scosa · Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 9

been in the same situation. and left heathrow airport wihtout a problem, im not to sure what some people are talking about when they say its difficult to leave. from what i understand Britain is one of the few countries where they dont check passports when Leaving, its something the labour goverment introduced. i know of a few people who have overstayed and left without a problem. they briefly open your passport and have a look, (more to check you are the person in the passport) i've never been asked any questions. i guess they are just glad you are leaving. if they do ask, say that you have been trying to apply for a work permit this whole time, but it has been declined so you are leaving. you are allowed to stay after your visa expires, if you are trying to apply for a permit. but once that is not possible then you have to leave.

how to you intend to come back? as a visitor? what visa did you have before? it will be difficult to enter again after your visa has expired, unless you apply for another one. hope this helps.

cynical1 · Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 5

thank you for ur reply, scosa. Smile

i came to the UK on a student visa. what happened was my employer promised me that they would help me apply for a work permit. at the end, she failed to comply with the home office's instructions and even when the home office sent my passport back to my employer, my employer/manager did not even informed me of what happened and that the home office returned my passport back.
just to have continuity of my application, i would still like to go on with my work permit application, as there is an agency that would help me with that. however, my concern is that if i leave the UK, i might not be able to come back here again even with a work permit.
i am considering on applying another student visa but until i have a guaratee that i can come back in the UK legally, i really cant do much.

scosa · Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 9

ya its pretty difficult to enter again as a visitor (without a valid visa) straight after your current visa has expired. i shouldnt really say difficult because it really is up to the immigration officer you get when you attempt to come back in. if you are able to prove to him/her that you are coming in as a visitor then its up to them. as for the work permit agencies, you should make sure that they doing it on a no win no fee basis, seeing that you have already been turned down on one occasion. either that or its going to cost a fortune! but once you have secured a work permit it should be easy for you to come back in the country, you have to go back to your home country to get entry clearance anyway.

try the citizens advice bureau.. give them a ring, they are pretty useful and give immigration advice for free.. good luck

cynical1 · Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 5

iv tried consulting the citizens advice bureau and they also referred me to a solicitors that gives free legal advice. but that didnt really help.

<to scosa> i hope you dont mind me asking how long have you overstayed in the uk. you also mentioned that left heathrow airport without any trouble. but just to be on the safe side, do u know any other airport in the uk that wont cause to much trouble when you leave the country?

is it ok if i ask for ur email as there are a few questions that i would like to ask privately. thank you! Smile

jiffry · Joined: 07 Jul 2007 Posts: 1

Last week i returned to my country after overstaying in the UK for 2 months. I was in the impression that there is no immigration checks at Heathrow while departing, but to my surprise there was a Immigration check. The immigration looked at me passport and realized that I have overstayed. He took my finger prints, my passport number and handed me a Signed Home Office paper pointing me to certain section of the immigration and Asylum act of 1999. The paper's heading was "NOTICE TO A PERSON LIABLE TO REMOVAL". He also wrote in my Passport stating a number and mentioning Eaton House Immigration Service.

I dont exactly understand what this means. I know I;ve broken the law. I want to know how bad this offense is. Will this mean that I will never be able to travel to UK again or any other country.

Please advice anyone who knows about this. <qatarsl@gmail.com>

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cynical1 · Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 5

an immigration adviser told me that if you have overstayed in the UK, the chances are u wont be able to go back here for 5 years.