Dear all, Is is possible to switch from a Tier 5 creative visa to a spouse visa? I’m British, my partner is Zimbabwean. Would we be able to marry in the Uk without having to do anything apart from register with a HO registry office (and poss be subject to the 70 days) or would we have to switch into...
Hi Frontier Mole. He is Tier 5 Creative and his sponsor lost his license because of paperwork irregularities and a grey area over what constitutes ‘performance’ which a lot of musicians are experiencing - Peter Gabriel had the same problem bringing people here to play at WOMAD as the HO said that Af...
Hi Frontier Mole, He wasn’t implicated in the reason for the refusal as far as I can tell. He has had no communication whatsoever from the HO, despite us phoning many times and then immediately requesting a curtailment letter so he could go back to his home country and reapply with a new sponsor. Th...
Ok, thank you so much. One last question - thank you so much for all you’re help. He carried on working regardless of the sponsor revocation because he was never given any communication from the Home Office to even say that his sponsor had lost his license. He is a musician and does workshops includ...
Yes - we just wanted to make sure we didn’t put a foot wrong!!! He has an unblemished immigration history of 13 years on and off so didn’t want this to cause a problem for future visa applications. I assume he can go ahead and apply for a new one without having had the letter?? By the way - thank yo...
It’s a tier 5 creative visa. He extended for a year in May last year and was granted it along with a NI number etc. His sponsor had actually been visited by the HO in April. Revocation was issued in August to the sponsor but we have had nothing despite immediately writing to them to request a curtai...
Does anyone else have experience of getting a curtailment letter? My partner’s sponsor received a sponsor license revocation in August. We wrote to the Home Office straight away to request a curtailment letter and to ask what to do next. They wrote back a month later saying they do not issue curtail...
Thank you 'The Station Agent.' You have been wonderful. We actually spoke to an immigration advisor yesterday, one we got from the gov.uk website (we didn't even know this service existed!) who is regulated by OISC. To be honest, he was also unclear, but did give us a little more hope that this is a...
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. It is such a horrible, lonely place to be when immigration problems arise, but knowing there are people out there who are willing to help others is wonderful. I hope to be able to do the same for someone else one day. Yes, Tier 5 is a complicated syste...
Thank you so much for replying. His new sponsor (who has been operating as one for a number of years and is extremely established) did not seem to know as she had not dealt with a transfer of sponsorship before, just new people applying from outside the UK. She used the sponsor helpline but received...
Hello, I have never posted here before, but this seems like the only place where sensible and helpful answers can be found. I post on behalf of my partner who is a Zimbabwean national and has been in the U.K. on and off for the last 12 years as a performer and musician. In May my partner applied for...
