My wife's tourist visa - update

So Monday I wrote to the Croydon complaints department of UK Immigration and they would have received it yesterday.  I specified my objections to the refusal and actually decided to include some outcomes with the idea that they can compensate me for wasting my time and money.

Here's my outcome requirements that I included with my complaint:

1)  A 6-month tourist VISA without having to submit another application to Bangkok or pay any more money
2) A  free upgrade to the visa from 6 Months (our application) to 2-Years (the next one up) as compensation for the inconvenience.
3) A refund of my fee (£91) for the inconvenience.
4) A payment of 5,000 baht (£100) by way of compensation, to cover the money I spent on bus ticket, hotel, taxi and food for my wife to go to Bangkok to deliver the pointless application.

Obviously, 1 and 2 are the bare minimum and 3 and 4 are possibly chancing my arm!   But, as the TV advert goes (Vodafone) "you get nothing unless you ask".

I am now awaiting the response, which may be a few weeks.  The good news and why I decided to go this route is entirely due to our UK friends and their wives.  One couple had their 6 month tourist visa refused and it went to court, which is free.  The guy attended at the time specified and he and the Judge were the only ones in the courtroom.  UK Immigration just sent a note giving the reasons and did not even bother to attend.  The Judge listened carefully to the guy's real explanations and then awarded the visa.  The Immigration department then have 28 days to appeal, which they didn't but it still took them a long time to issue the visa.

All in all 4-6 months.  I'm not really bothered how long, it is the principle that we're fighting - corruption and deception and politics, all things you would not expect of the UK system, but nevertheless true.   At least in foreign countries you would expect it, and could sort it with a wedge of cash.

I was told to let it go, it is the system and you have to work within the system. But the system is broke, unjust and corrupt.  The government get two lots of cash for all the ones who are refused and then decide to reapply - when conveniently the application is approved.  I have come across this sort of thing before and it does not scare me, it just makes me very angry and more determined.  It is not the faceless bureaucrats who have to live with the decision, it is real people with real lives.

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