Madison A

I agree 100%. I read the law verbatim and accept what you say is the legal position. The purpose of making my post is simply to make others aware of the risk associated with the medical process and how easy it is to overlook the dangers of securing K2 visa for your children.

My daughter refused her K2 has 11 GCSEs and is expected to achieve 3 x A'levels all at grade "A". I explained this to the Embassy staff but they weren't impressed by that argument.

I am seeing the GP of the daughter refused a K2 visa tomorrow in the hope they can say something constructive. So far, this particular GP has written a series of negative letters (to the visa doctor). The visa doctor explained to me that US gun laws were such that they wouldn't allow one of my children to enter (the US). BTW, neither of my children has handled a gun.

17. So if you have an autistic child or one suffering from mental challenges, they will be refused a K2 visa.

Yes. it takes as long to sell a house as it takes to get a visa.

It is perhaps easy to under-estimate the significance of the medical, K1 and K2 visa applicants are required to undergo. Because of a mental health issued suffered by one of my children in the last 12 months, she is being denied a K2 visa. Our house has been sold and the removal men will be here imminently so at least one child will be allowed to attend school in the US. The Embassy staff weren't alive to the problems of forcing one child to stay behind in the UK. Until the left behind child gets the all clear from the Visa Medical centre, she will be without a family and support network she needs.