Visa row - Lisette and Luke want to stay in the UK together AN American citizen longing to permanently reside in the UK has criticised the Home Office for its shambolic handling of her via application. Lisette Garibay, from California, was left waiting on tenterhooks for more than 140 days to find out if her Further Leave to Remain Visa application had been approved by the government department. The 26-year-old came over to the UK on a student visa to study an MA in criminology at the University of Essex in 2019. Last December she married her now-husband Luke Skippings, a 27-year-old British citizen from Ipswich, who she met in Las Vegas in August 2018.
A Putney woman has spoken of her relief after getting her marriage visa approved – but only following a difficult 16 week wait. Singapore national, Ezabel, said she had been left without any options after her visa application was delayed without any given reason for more than four months. But after Wandsworth Times contacted the Home Office, the visa was finally approved. Ezabel spoke of the concerns and fears the long delay had caused for her, adding that many other people may still be in a similar situation. The 30-year-old met her husband, Alireza, a British-born research engineer, while on holiday in Edinburgh in 2018.
Couple left in limbo for months after Home Office backlog causes long delays to visa applications
Ross Purcell and Siyu Qian, who live in Gateshead, married in December last year after initially meeting five years ago on a holiday with mutual friends
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A Gateshead couple were left stuck in a “frustrating” limbo for four months after a backlog at the Home Office led to their visa application being delayed by weeks.
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