Timeline for Long distance relationship: flying every week to the UK
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| Feb 22, 2018 at 15:13 | comment | added | Andre | You could get the train too if flying isn’t feasible. | |
| Feb 22, 2018 at 4:06 | answer | added | JonathanReez♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 22, 2018 at 2:31 | history | edited | user67108 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 21, 2018 at 21:41 | comment | added | phoog | @Neusser apparently border officers do give a good deal of deference to existing visas, so I presume they do actually get some information about the application from their systems when they scan the traveler's passport or visa. | |
| Feb 21, 2018 at 21:39 | comment | added | phoog | Have you lived with your boyfriend for at least two years at some point in the past? If so, you should be able to qualify to enter the UK under the EU right of freedom of movement. If you do, you will get an EEA family permit, which is free of charge and allows you to enter the UK freely as long as your boyfriend is either in the UK already or traveling with you. | |
| Feb 21, 2018 at 20:20 | comment | added | la femme cosmique | @OliverHouston exactly. Then OP's intentions, and all the proof needed to back up their claims (that they will return, that they're doing things above the book, that their frequent and successive visits to the UK are NOT secretely living there) are a matter of record, which saves OP from having to worry every 2 weeks about being turned away - and being turned away would result in a lot more future scrutiny. An entry clearance protects against that. | |
| Feb 21, 2018 at 17:45 | comment | added | Oliver Houston | Assuming the boyfriend doesn't live in London, then that probably puts the Eurostar out of the question. LA Femme Cosmiques suggestion is probably the best and if it provides you with something like a 1 year multiple entry visa, then solves your problems, for a year at least. | |
| Feb 21, 2018 at 15:53 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackTravel/status/966340107837083648 | ||
| Feb 21, 2018 at 15:53 | comment | added | Jim MacKenzie | Honestly, I don't see a problem with this. Apply for a visa and if asked, state that you want to go every second weekend for a couple of days. You do have an EU visa and you do have attachments to France via your educational commitments. | |
| Feb 21, 2018 at 15:45 | comment | added | BritishSam | @Neusser you could tell the border guard you applied for a visa for this reason instead of travelling visa free, that could help you at the border. I still think it's risky though, better him coming to Paris once or twice a month. | |
| Feb 21, 2018 at 15:39 | comment | added | Neusser | @lafemmecosmique How an apllication (which you give away and never see again) would answer border officer's questions? They don't see your application. | |
| Feb 21, 2018 at 14:29 | comment | added | DumbCoder | So why would you not use the Eurostar and fly into London from Paris ? I can guarantee you if you travel so frequently to London from Paris you will be stopped at the border, questioned and maybe refused entry. If you still want to go ahead and do it, take the Eurostar so you will be refused entry in Paris and go back home, rather than sit in the glass cage at Heathrow airport and then sent back. | |
| Feb 21, 2018 at 14:29 | comment | added | la femme cosmique | You could apply for a standard visitor visa in which you explain your situation, provide your current financials including your job in Paris, and prove that you have interests in Paris which make it so you're not planning on secretly living in the UK. That would answer some of the border agent's questions, who is definitely going to find it suspicious that you visit twice per month, or even once per month. But YMMV, I really don't know whether they will accept such a situation. | |
| Feb 21, 2018 at 13:06 | history | edited | Newton | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 21, 2018 at 13:06 | comment | added | mdewey | The simplest thing is for him to always visit you. | |
| Feb 21, 2018 at 13:01 | comment | added | Neusser | "Any suggestions on how to avoid it?" - don't fly so often. | |
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| Feb 21, 2018 at 12:51 | history | asked | mvtravels | CC BY-SA 3.0 |