Hi all, Thanks for the advice over the last few years, I took my wife to the Sheffield PEO on Thursday for her ILR application and it was successful - not only that but it was amazingly efficient and pain free :) I expected been taken into a dark room and hounded with questions for a few hours - but ...

Hi all, Thanks in advance for your help. I now seem to have everything in order for my wives ILR application in October, the only area I am not sure on is the documents we need to show for her earnings / our ltd company. Basically we started our own company in November 2012 - as I am full time ...

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Hi all, A couple of query's - firstly my wife is Chinese and as usual she has picked an English name to be unofficially known by. All of our official documents passport / NI number / doctor banks etc are in her Chinese name - however for other things like Bingo membership / cover for furniture we ...

Hi all, At the beginning of this year me and my wife, and my old boss and his wife set up our own company. We are basically working as an agent for my old employers in Sweden - we find business for them in the UK - and they invoice and deliver the material to the end user giving us a certain ...

sorry I meant the 30th!! Any constructive advice though?

Hi All, I have been under the understanding that my wife ( she entered uk October 2011 so comes under old rules pre July 2012 ) had to pass both the Life in The UK test and the B1 English language requirement if we applied after October 1st 2013 to get ILR. I have just been on UKBA site to see how ...

Thanks for the feedback. I live near sheffield so I will look for any reputable translation companies - as we have a PEO here I guess there will also be a company that will do this. Luckily I am actually going to china ( holiday was booked before i was told about needing marriage card transalted ) I ...

thanks CASA - not wanting to 2nd guess your knowledge but can anyone else confirm this? The woman i finally got through to at UKBA said we would probably need a translation - not that she seemed to much as she then told me to ask the foreign and commonwealth office who politely told me to go back to ...

Hi all, Getting nowhere with UKBA who put me onto the Foreign and commonwealth office - who put me back to UKBA... I am British, my wife is chinese and here on spouse VISA - We are applying for ILR in October - I am clear on everything but our marriage certificates. All we have are the red book ...

i checked previously and was told you could only get a notarised copy that is acceptale from my wifes hometown government office where we had to go to get married.

Thanks - would i need to get a certified and stamped copy/translation?

If so i think I can only get one in China and not the UK.

Hi all, i am English and my Chinese wife is currently here on a Spouse Visa ( she entered the UK on 26th October 2011). We will therefore look to apply for ILr at the end of this year. looking for some info on the below: 1. When we applied for Spouse VISA ( in China where we were living at the time ...

How easy is it to get a holiday VISA for my Chinese wife - B2? I am UK citizen and can therefore get a waiver. My wife is living with me in Uk under spouse VISA but we want to take a vacation in US. Can I just apply at embassy in London and is it straightforward? We married in China so will I need ...

Hi can anyone give opinion on the funds ive shown above?? If its usually an automatic rejection for unemployed people then I dont want to waste £1k on applying at this time - but if my savings income should be enough anyway then i will apply? Someones comments / feedback would be greatly a ...

Any one got any thoughts on whether the above money will be ok if I tell the ECO about my redundancy?

Thanks

Stew

Thanks for the feedback so far it is greatly appreciated - I may look at getting rid of a few things thta are probably not as important or are covered by something else. However i have just been thrown a curve ball and could use some further advice - Previously I was told that due to organisational ...

Hi anyone got any ideas what from the above I can probably get rid of? im new at this and for me everything seems to have relevance so dont want to get rid of something important.

Thanks Stew

Thanks for input - guess im just worried that when we applied for just a visitor VISA in march they refused us due to lack of supporting evidence - therefore I extended my job rotation until the end of this year - id be gutted if it happened again now we've moved the relationship on and got married ...

Thanks for the info. so far guys it is much appreciated. However I have now started putting a folder together with info. we have and as a worrier my blood pressure is going through the roof, as I do not have some documents like a mortgage statement ( Afetr last application they kept both the ...

Thanks, I have just received my official work permit and 1 yea residency permit - this has my address in chinese and thinking about it my other half should have registered our address in one of her official police documents to show where she resides - guess this will help, on proving we live ...

Hi all, A Few questions if some one can please advise- In regards to cohabitation: My girlfriend started bascically living with me in November of last year, which means she spent every night there without officially moving in. She officially moved her belongings into my apartment in February ( i ...