Refused Entry to UK. Will this affect my Student Visa application?
I lived in the UK as Visiting Student for less than 6 months. 4 months later, I tried to go back to United Kingdom for a two weeks vacation. But I was denied the permission to get into the country because the Border Officer did not believe that I was genuinely seeking entry for the limited period as stated, since I was going to stay with a former classmate and his Family.
The main problem was that when he asked me about my relationship with this classmate I said we were friends, and then they called him and he said we were in a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship.
Honestly we had never discussed what label we world give to our relationship and I naively never imagined this was a very important issue for Immigrants. I really was not seeking for a way to stay illegally on the UK.
I tried to explain this to the Officers, but they said they would not believe anything else I said because I had already lied once. After that I was on detention for a few hours in which they took my fingerprints and then sent me back to my country on the next available flight. My passport now has a black cross on one of the pages.
In the documents they gave me, it says I was not allowed in the UK because:
- I failed to give satisfactory or reliable answers to an Immigration Officer's Enquiries
- I did not have an entry clearance valid for the purpose for which the application for leave to enter was made
Now I was offered a place to study a PhD in London and a full scholarship (uni fess and a stipen about £200 more than the embassy aks to have per month). I would like to know if the previous situation could affect my application to get a Student Visa? What should I do when explaining the past refusal?
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Can I apply UK student visa after refusal?
In case your visa application is rejected, you can choose to re-apply for the visa. When re-submitting a UK visa application, you must be very careful to ensure that the form is correctly filled and provide all relevant information, in order to avoid rejection of the visa application once again.Does visa refusal affect future visa application UK?
Once you have a UK visa refusal, it remains permanently in the records of the UK Home Office. Each time you re-apply, your previous UK visa refusal comes up. It becomes an unavoidable hindrance to all of your future UK visa applications.What are the chances of getting UK visa after rejection?
The current refusal rate for UK visa applications hovers around 15% mark, with some categories experiencing an even higher rate of refusals.Can previous student visa refusal affect future visa application?
This could affect your eligibility for future visas \u2013 but failing to disclose past visa refusal or cancellation entirely will usually result in the denial of your visa application.UK Immigration : No More Delay for UK Visa | Fast Visa Processing for International Students | UKVI
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