Hello all,

When RENEWING a UK Spouse Visa, do you need to send the original marriage certificate again?

Surely they have it on their records that they've seen it before from when we first applied for the visa?

Hello,

I remember reading somewhere that, if an applicant is applying for a UK Spouse Visa from abroad, on receiving the visa, he/she must enter the UK together with (AT THE SAME TIME AS) their spouse.

Does anyone know where exactly this rule is specified?

Thank you for your time

My wife's spouse visa's up for renewal in Spring 2020 (want to get advice early, please). There's a significant chance that we will not be able to meet the financial requirements (wife's English should be good enough to pass the English test, but not to actually get hired; my earning potential isn't...

Thank you for the info!

So, to clarify, if we cannot meet the financial requirement, we can go the 10-year route(without any exceptional circumstance)?

I don't know about the FLR(FP) (wish there was a webpage explaining it simply - still searching for such a page). I'm wondering because I'm worried I may not be able to meet the financial requirement. We're due to have a baby in October who'll be a UK citizen, but the baby won't have been living in ...

Can I just go down the 10-year route if I feel like it?

Or are there certain criteria the spouse has to meet?

Thanks

Thanks

NHS dental treatment, glasses (see first page of document linked in original post, please)

I'm on income-based JSA in Wales, and here [see page 1 of linked document] ( http://www.healthcosts.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/documents/1018/HC1W%20Complete%20English%20WEB.pdf ) it says that someone on income-based JSA & their partner are entitled to full help with health costs. Is my wife (on a spous...

Thanks, Casa!

Please do go ahead and lock, keep up the good work!

Dear All, When my wife receives her passport back with a 30 day vignette, is she allowed to visit another country before entering the UK? We are currently in Korea (where we applied for my wife's UK Spouse Visa), and are thinking about visiting Spain/France before entering the UK. We intend to enter...

Dear All,

Can a sponsor accompany an applicant into a visa application centre?
(The applicant does not speak English perfectly, and neither does she fully understand the local language, which is Korean. She's got Korean citizenship, but she was born and raised in Japan)

Thanks

Dear All,

My savings reached the requisite amount (over 62,500 GBP in our case) on Jan 20th 2017.

Can I therefore apply July 20th, or is it July 21st?

Many thanks.

Yeah, you're right.

It's just that the birth certificate is in Japanese, so I'd have to fork out more money for translation + notarisation *sob*

But seems like it's the best way,

Many thanks!

There is no line for place of birth at all . . .

Dear All,

On the VAF4a online form, there is a field for 'Place of Birth as stated the passport or travel document'.
My wife(the APPLICANT)'s passport does not state her place of birth.
What should we do?

Thanks

Dear all,
Does the Applicant's Birth Certificate need to be submitted,
or just the Sponsor's?

Thanks

P.S. Dear CR001, Re: All your topics have been merged. Kindlly keep ALL question in this topic rather than start a new thread with each question. See also Multiple Posts (click) I wholly understand why you did this. One suggestion: Could you change the title of this post from "UK Spouse Visa - Vario...

Dear all,

Does anybody know:

How long after submitting your application at VFS can you get an interview?
Are we talking a week or several weeks after?
(I intend to use the priority service, but experience of non-priority service also welcome!)

Thanks.

Dear All, My wife (the Applicant) and I married last December; We hope to apply for her UK Spouse Visa in July. My wife has not changed her surname yet, because I thought it'd be complicated changing all her documents. Is it OK for my wife (the Applicant) not to change her name until after she gets ...

OK, we've had a Hung Parliament. There may be a second General Election this year . . . In these uncertain political times, am I right in supposing that the status quo applies until another government gets in? Also, does the Visa service process visas as normal, or do they dally a bit, waiting to se...

Dear All, In the online application form for the spouse visa, it asks for the applicant's mother's + father's place of birth details, Does this mean that their birth certificates need to be presented as evidence? (I don't remember ever seeing this on the various lists of evidence I've seen floating ...

Dear All,

I have this faint recollection of reading somewhere that all evidence has to be A4 sized.

Do photos (wedding, time spent together etc.) have to be printed A4 size as well?

Or am I remembering wrong, and in fact not all evidence has to be A4 size?

Thanks.

Thanks, I'm going through the savings route (£62,500). So, to clarify, if I have the savings, the fact that I have been abroad for the past 4 years is not grounds for rejection, right? No it is not. Have you held the savings in an accessible account for a minimum of 6 months? Do you have evidence o...

Thanks,

I'm going through the savings route (£62,500).

So, to clarify, if I have the savings, the fact that I have been abroad for the past 4 years is not grounds for rejection, right?