Hi alterhase58 thanks for your reply - they received the ILR through being dependents of my wife - they applied for the settlement visa when they were both under 18 - the settlement visa was initially refused on the grounds of parental responsibility and then overturned rightly following appeal over...

Hi We are now in the process of applying for UK citizenship for my family. I married my wife 2 years ago and she and her 2 children (my stepchildren) received their ILR status in June 2020, my wife received her spouse visa 6 years ago but due to previous marriage annulment issues we weren't able to ...

Hi I am a UK citizen from birth and my wife will be eligible for ILR soon following 5 years of UK residence on a spouse visa. Her children (my stepchildren) have CHILD APP FM(STANDARD) visas with my wife's name in their passport. They received this 1 year ago following an appeal process that lasted ...

I am planning our visit to the Consulate with the hope we can still receive the visas in time as we only got an appointment 8 working days before we leave. Unfortunately the connected agencies did not have any earlier appointments as their websites promote. I have noticed there are 2 categories on t...

this whole process is very upsetting for our family and again my step children get the brunt of it due to being abandoned by their own Father.

The youngest is 17 still he is working, the oldest is 19 though not working. They're both not in education yet but hoping they can be in September though also having issues with that at present especially the older one, that's another story. So as the 19 year old is unemployed his visa will likely b...

Hi Further to my pain in not being able to go through with the schengen application at the TLS contact centre for not having the registration receipt. I have just found out after talking with the TLS recommended Visa Agency, that my stepchildren require consent from their biological father and my wi...

Hi I am going on holiday to France in August with my non-EU wife and her 2 non-EU children (17 and 19) plus our 2 UK children, my wife and stepchildren don't have ILR yet but have settlement visa (Spouse and Child FM visas). We made the appointment for TLS just under 90 days before our holiday and g...

Thanks for your comments, am looking into the legal documents for this - however, my only concern is amount of time things like this take in the Philippines. My partner's marriage annulment process took over 5 years. Saying that though we have the court documents from the annulment, which we unfortu...

Hello I really hope someone can help as my family have received the worst news today, that will effectively ruin any chance of a normal family life together. I am British citizen from birth born to 2 British parents (and family generations of British citizenship going back hundreds of years for all ...