Originally Posted by
lhrsfo
The political rant won't change anything and will make matters worse if applying again. However, it's wise to be aware of the mood music. Nearly every political party believes that immigration into the UK is too high - the net figure for last year of 550,000 (just shy of 1% of the population) was announced yesterday. The direction of travel is that it will be tighter for everyone. If an applicant supplies a good reason to be refused, he or she will be refused because it allows the authorities to claim that they are refusing more people.
At least the situation is better in the UK than in the US where the computer has broken down and no visas are being processed at all.
Yet I doubt the British public's beef is with young Americans hanging out in the UK for a while. As typically is the case, the actual problem that is perceived by voters will not be specifically addressed by the political parties because doing so would mean you would have to differentiate between different groups of visitors/immigrants which is of course a major taboo today in official political discourse.