My Fiancée Visa Nightmare

My story with UK immigration started in April 2009 when my fiancé proposed me marriage back in Argentina. We were absolutely unaware of how invasive is the process and just living our love history , feeling that we couldn't handle the pain to separate from each other again then we decided to share our lives forever.

We started investigating a lot , we struggled to get information from the official website ,then we found this forum that was very helpful .
We read plenty of histories, of couples like us sharing the same dream, and others immerse in the nightmare of the process applying for the same visa for second time , I was very upset when I read that and that some people applying for the fiancé visa waited several months.

In that moment you just think that the wait will finish the magic in your relationship but we decided to go through all of that then checked many times the list and did questions to the lawyers and finally put all the information together and decided was time to start the process, we filled and signed the form VAF4 together in Argentina and my fiancé wrote a list of what he should send me ,then he travelled back to England and we kissed each other like we was going to met the next two months but it was really uncertain .

As soon as my fiancé arrived to UK he put hands in what needed to be done, he took pictures of the accommodation ,the landlord signed the letter of agreement , I printed every one of our emails, callings.

He showed me by camera a beautiful engagement ring that he bought for me and he had to put the ticket in the folder as part of the evidence !.
He went to book a date for our marriage and choose the Greenwich park as the place for our civil marriage ,he send me the pictures and I was dreaming awake as was a beautiful place with a rich history ideal for a couple to get married .

He ask them to send a confirmation of it but they said that they just can do that once I get my fiancé visa ,after some insistence they agreed to send it by post but it never happened.

We didn't want to wait more ,he send me a folder full of documentation my appointment was booked but I was still waiting and constantly calling to check that the documentation arrived to Buenos Aires days ago but it was not still delivered to my town . I spoke with to manager of the post service who apologized after I explained him that I had an appt with the embassy then finally didn't arrive on time , so I had to book another appointment.
The day of my appointment I arrived to Buenos Aires 05 a.m. ! so I had to stay in the terminal many hours , finally I took a taxi to the embassy and arrived 1 hour earlier , I was the only one waiting for an appointment.

After a short wait they called me the officer took my biometrics , a picture and my folder, we had a short chat where I told her when I was going to get married and other few things that didn't matter for the process, I wish it did ( they don't interview in Buenos Aires ) the officer told me that my documentation will be send to New York and they will communicate to me how is going the process.

When I leave the embassy I felt relief and went straight to tell my fiancé the details of what happened.

One week after I received an email that said that they received my application and that they will be processing it as soon as they can ,days passed without news and finally 10 days later I received another email telling that my application was ready to pick up in Buenos Aires.

We forgot to pick the delivery service so I was about to go and pick it myself but considering the 5 hours travel again etc I booked a service to go a pick it and was very temped to tell them please open the package and tell me what is says ! finally after some days they bring me the package I opened it and was a form in the top that I didn't read I just went straight to my passport and was a rectangular black stamp with some numbers on it that didn’t look like a visa at all.

I started reading the form that they send along with my documentation , my visa has been refused ,I was absolutely devastated I read it many times before to communicate the bad news to my fiancé ,they said in others words that we didn't have a confirmation of a date to get married and they send a form to appeal.

We felt that was unfair, in many emails that we send of our conversations we mentioned the date , we read a lot about appeals in the forum and seems like with was going to delay a lot and was uncertain then we evaluated that we should forget a bit about this and just go as a tourist for one month to visit him as I don’t need tourist visa and the process was so stressful , but we realised that even that they was very likely to not allow me in the UK as a tourist because of my refused visa . Finally we decided to go for a fresh application one month later.

This time was allowed !!!!!!!! thanks God and the good advices from Victoria ,John and other lawyers in the forum