Thanks CR001. Marriage visa it is then, appreciate your quick response. I guess the final question for now, is where it asks "How long do you intend to stay in the UK" obviously we'll be applying for leave to remain after the marriage, but any guidance on what I should enter there at the moment? The ...

Hi all, Just an update on this. Turns out we're getting married in the UK, yay! So time to get a VISA as suggested above. We're doing the application now online (She's back home) but I'm stumped at the first hurdle. On the Visa4UK site there are three dropdown boxes. If I choose "Settlement" and ...

Hi Kaffuk, Just to clarify. She is here at the moment on a student visa with 100% attendance at her ESOL course. She came over in late August last year and her VISA expires at the end of July, she has lived with me during this time. She will go home two weeks prior to this, the ticket is booked etc ...

Hi Kaffuk, That's a good point. The plan is for her to go back home in July. We will then apply for the "Join Family in UK" visa and submit the appropriate documentation (Including this English test which is one of the things UKVI require) The whole plan is to make the UK her home, she'll then come ...

Just to keep this thread updated if anyone is interested. The "Join Family in the UK" VISA which is the one we'll go for, requires an English test at a certain level (See section 4 in the link on my other post). After some reading, it appears that the test below is the one we need, and it'll be nice ...

Thanks Char!

Thanks CR001 for clarifying, my mistake. I assume it's this Visa then that we need to apply for first?

https://www.gov.uk/join-family-in-uk

Then get married, followed by extending stay VISA?

Thanks again,
Sam

Hi Casa, Back again and with a quick question. You mentioned that the best way to do it would be that when she goes back home, to apply for a fiance visa, then she could come back, we could get married and she could switch to a 2.5 FLR(M) visa. I've been looking here and it isn't clear: https://www ...

Dear Casa - That's exactly the information I was after. Thanks a lot.

Sam

My long term (5 years) non EU girlfriend is here in England at the moment on a short-term study visa, the 11 month ESOL one and is attending college daily. Although we've been together 5 years and see each other monthly and holiday abroad together we haven't lived together for any extended period of ...