Overseas visitor, can I family pool them

[clipped_wings]

I think Wezza has posed an innocent question and I applaud his perspective in deciding to adhere to the FP program rules.

This topic rears it's head from time to time and seems to reignite a feisty debate as to whether VA family pooling terms can be exploited to benefit the individual.

There's no T&C that prevents someone from taking advantage of the program in such a way that they accrue status and points at an accelerated rate from family pooling. It's right there in black and white. But the terms are not there for decoration. They exist to protect VA, the user and the program itself and should not be considered a platform for abuse by those few individuals who willingly seek to weaken the system by providing ambiguous information for their family pooling account.

For the OP, it was (hopefully) a simple question of whether it was allowed, NOT whether he could get away with it.

And for everyone else who thinks the latter, it's not a matter of whether VA will find out. The common denominator has to be a moral question of whether one should even THINK they should do it.

 

[Happy Dude]

Yes - I remember that thread. And IIRC, some had their accounts reinstated after sending stat decs/evidence that they had not broken the rules. Perhaps that's what HappyDude is referring to? If so, that's a very different situation - I understand that in those cases, the members had not breached the T&Cs and were able to convince Velocity that was the case. In the example of the OP in this thread, there is no question that it would be a breach of the T&Cs, so if he did this and got caught, he wouldn't have a leg to stand on. The same may or may not be true of Wezza - depends on whether the nephews live with him - and the answer to that question could easily be verified.

In any case, those previous examples show that Velocity monitors compliance with these T&Cs, and enforces them if they believe they have been breached.

Whilst there was an element of tongue-in-cheek to my unhelpful post, I was referring to "that" thread where it was indicated lawyers had been been (successfully) involved as opposed to providing stat decs or other evidence. So there is form there however I agree that family pooling in these cases would not be within the T&Cs and Velocity may not fold so easily.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

A couple of guys in NZ got married on a radio competition just to get rugby tickets a few years ago.

That sounds like taking it a bit far,

Taking it a bit far ... c'mon, Kiwi, rugby (if it were a sheep they married, that might be taking it too far, then again, Kiwi, sheep, nah, all good) :shock:

I hope this post is taken in the jocular vein it was intended. Similarities to any person, living or dead, is purely coincidental.