The British Embassy Retained His Passport And His Wife's After A Visa Application (Page 2)

Why did you wife passport carry different date of birth?

that is the first question, but truly, the situation does not look too good, you will need a very good solicitor to help you fight this case (or you can try doing it yourself, if you have enough truth - something you dont have at the moment)

the visa guys have very strong reasons to believe that there has been some forgery in provision of the new passport because the information in the new passport you are using does not correlate with the information on the one your wife had used in her past application

this would be very trying times for you, considering the fact that you are newly wedded and not needing any additional pressure on you, but as a man I besiege you to have a heart-to-heart talk with your wife, I know you trust her which must be why you married her anyway, but just try to soft-speak to her, she needs to come clean with all she knew about her old passport, including why she applied for a visa, what documents she used? (did someone help her when she did it? was all the document genuine and original? etc), if you can know all the truth as a fact, that is what you will use to fight back at the embassy, it might be a case that she will be banned from staying/going to UK for some years, but if you handle it well, it shouldnt affect your own profile (not trying to split you guys, but i believe you understand my drift from above? which simply is, if something bad has been done in the past, you can try to make the best of a bad situation, if you get your own stay, you can continue your family, get her child with her and she can come back if her child lives in the UK) , so there are many solutions, but the first thing is, you need to know the truth and all what has happened in the past.

After that you need to hit the embassy back and collect your passports, they dont have legal right over them (if they are genuine passports.)