It is my pleasure to help and part of my nature. Please do research well, and you will get a visa, I am with my uncle in touch all the time who works at ministry. I will be in Uk in March.Now, a main point of all is that in UK, probably in US it is similar one must have a clear file. And even for the Eu citizens my aunt told me a wife of a capt , must bring a special "clear note " from his city police, that he was never being punished, or that a person name had never been registered within police computers . If there is a name then an application process is being cut off immediately. Please research well again, and do not focus the attention on a visa that much, if you are honest with your wife and kids, I would not do it never, since it brings along the additional worries. It does, one got a feeling like " not fitting in " or worse not " needed" it is not truth. Melu