Thank you for the reply. We provided proof of our marriage during the appeal itself and the judge noted this in his verdict. When my wife sends her passport off to receive the vignette (she has just this week been requested to do this) - shall we enclose a covering letter explaining her new marital ...
Hello, I'm wondering if anyone can help with this query. When you win an appeal - how long will the visa you are granted last for? Is it 2.5 years as standard? My wife applied for a fiance settlement visa, and after being initially refused, we won our appeal. While we were waiting for the appeal to ...
Yeah, the date is the most important thing. I know some people have asked questions such as 'do you need the bank to print the statements out themselves and stamp / certify them?' Personally we just printed the statements out ourselves via the Bank's online portal - and that was acceptable. For some...
If you posted them the documents and included a self-addressed & stamped envelope they will return the documents to you when they have finished scanning them themselves. It took about 3 weeks in our case - although we paid for the priority service. Not sure about a scanning location in London - that...
No, you should only need to send one set of documents.
But I would advise scanning everything and keeping records of them in a Google Drive folder so you can refer back to them in the future if you need them again.
The trouble is they keep changing the rules - I'm not even sure if the government still uses the term Access UK - as this just seems to be the slogan for the area of the .gov website that deals with Visa applications. They said it was supposed to replace visa4uk - but apparently 'visa4uk' is coming ...
She needs to submit the application in her country. The documents from you (ie. the 'supporting documents' such as salary etc.) need to be submitted separately by you once she has made the initial application online / submitted her biometric data at her local Visa Application Centre (she will get de...
Thank you very much for the reply! Very helpful information. Another thing I'm wondering about - we initially applied for the fiance settlement visa, which lasts 6 months (which you then upgrade once in the UK). But we got married in her country while waiting for the appeal to happen, so now it's in...
My wife was in a very similar situation to you - and we used my father's income as third-party support. Our application was initially refused because of the exact same reasons as yours (they basically said we didn't meet the exceptional circumstances). We appealed (the hearing was in April), and two...
My wife recently won her appeal for a spouse visa, overturning the initial refusal, and got the following email today: *** The decision to refuse your visa application has been overturned and our office will now proceed to the next stage of your application. To complete this process we require you t...
I'd advise it takes around 6 weeks for the priority service, and 12 weeks for the non-priority service. You do need to send all your sponsor documents to Sheffield, but that can be done after submitting biometrics - just don't take too long to do it. And I know it's probably not what people want to ...
Personally I don't think you need a housing inspection. We included: Cover letter from the person who owns/rents the house saying they give permission for you to live there. Deeds of the house if they legally own it (or letter from landlord / rental agreement) Architectural floorplan of the house sh...
First application for FLR(M) Type: Postal - Priority Biometrics submitted: 5th April Sponsor documents sent to Sheffield: 12th April Documents received in Sheffield: 13th April Confirmation email + documents received back: 2nd May Result: Pending 'Visa application has been processed' email: 18th Ma...
I agree, I think a phone call is better - more immediate response, and the staff can potentially tell you more. When I hadn't had a response in two weeks, I called, let them know my situation, and the very next day I got a confirmation email - a coincidence maybe, but at least it felt like I'd had s...
If you call the UKVI phone number and speak to the staff there and tell them the situation, they will make a note on your file with the new info. Yes, it sucks that you have to pay to do so, but better to give them all the information available and keep them in the loop.
Or use a scanner + printer - that's what we did anyway. Scanning helped too as me and my fiance (who were in diff. countries at the time) could both upload documents independently and co-ordinate them all into a shared Google Drive.
I'd say in borderline cases like this where you're really on the cusp of the financial requirement, firstly, do everything you can to make sure your monthly income for the payslips and bank statements your are submitting gives a picture of a reliable, stable situation - basically, that they can trus...
Even if you don't meet the financial requirements, you still need to be able to show *some* means of being able to support your dependents. Ie. do you have any savings (even if they're less than £16,000), or a stable, reliable incomes from relatives? Are you living with relatives? Do your dependents...
Yup, basically - if you quit your PhD then your Tier 4 visa becomes invalid - hence why it's arguably in your interest to stay on the course if at all possible, as it gives you more options/time in the UK to marry.
If at all possible I'd use the time available to you on the current Visa to marry in the UK - not only will it allow you to marry more easily in the UK, but also means you won't have to pay for *both* the fiance Visa and then the upgrade to the spouse Visa.
