UK Spouse visa extension "bank statements" not original

Hi there,

We are about to apply for spouse visa extension for my wife. Upon asking my employers for a letter which shows my salary and length of employment, they asked to whom (including the address) the letter should be addressed to? I do not know which department of UK visa and immigration and what address to provide. can you please advice? I am also asking my Landlord to provide a supporting letter which showed the accomodation where we reside is adequte. He too is asking for the above mentioned information.

Address both letters to: To Whom it May Concern

Thank you. Yes, "To whom it may concern" whoever, to which address and department? I read somewhere that documents are no longer to be send to sheffield address.

A FLR(M) application is now made online and all documents scanned and uploaded to the UKCAS portal before your spouse books their biometeric appointment.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... -form-flrm

Thank you again, but My employers will not provide me with a letter unless I give them the full address of UK visa department where the letter will be presented to, whether scanned at the centre or posted. My employers need to address the letter to that relevent visa department on top of the letter, although they will be posting it to myself.

Masoud123 wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:16 pm

Thank you again, but My employers will not provide me with a letter unless I give them the full address of UK visa department where the letter will be presented to, whether scanned at the centre or posted. My employers need to address the letter to that relevent visa department on top of the letter, although they will be posting it to myself.

Yes a lot of employers don't issue the letter without the name of addressee & its address. In my opinion address it to UKVI and give the same previous ukvi address where in past the documents used to be sent. By doing so nothing will be affected as nothing actually will be sent there.

Casa wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:06 pm

A FLR(M) application is now made online and all documents scanned and uploaded to the UKCAS portal before your spouse books their biometeric appointment.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... -form-flrm

Is this definitive? Specifically the bit about "uploading to the UKCAS portal BEFORE the biometric appointment"?

UtterlyBrilliant wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 26, 2020 3:49 pm

Casa wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:06 pm

A FLR(M) application is now made online and all documents scanned and uploaded to the UKCAS portal before your spouse books their biometeric appointment.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... -form-flrm

Is this definitive? Specifically the bit about "uploading to the UKCAS portal BEFORE the biometric appointment"?

Yes. Anything uploaded after the biometric appointment won't be considered.

CR001 wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 26, 2020 3:54 pm

UtterlyBrilliant wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 26, 2020 3:49 pm

Casa wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:06 pm

A FLR(M) application is now made online and all documents scanned and uploaded to the UKCAS portal before your spouse books their biometeric appointment.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... -form-flrm

Is this definitive? Specifically the bit about "uploading to the UKCAS portal BEFORE the biometric appointment"?

Yes. Anything uploaded after the biometric appointment won't be considered.

On page 2 of this sub-forum, there is a thread (immigration-for-family-members/vfs-cann ... 96195.html) where it is suggested docs can still be uploaded as additional documents.

UtterlyBrilliant wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:30 pm

CR001 wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 26, 2020 3:54 pm

UtterlyBrilliant wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 26, 2020 3:49 pm

Casa wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:06 pm

A FLR(M) application is now made online and all documents scanned and uploaded to the UKCAS portal before your spouse books their biometeric appointment.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... -form-flrm

Is this definitive? Specifically the bit about "uploading to the UKCAS portal BEFORE the biometric appointment"?

Yes. Anything uploaded after the biometric appointment won't be considered.

On page 2 of this sub-forum, there is a thread (immigration-for-family-members/vfs-cann ... 96195.html) where it is suggested docs can still be uploaded as additional documents.

The link you post is for an application outside the UK.

This topic that you have tagged your question into is for a FLR m visa extension within the UK, for which my advice and that already given is correct.

It is important to note the actual topic circumstances when tagging a question on.

CR001 wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:33 pm

UtterlyBrilliant wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:30 pm

CR001 wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 26, 2020 3:54 pm

UtterlyBrilliant wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 26, 2020 3:49 pm

Is this definitive? Specifically the bit about "uploading to the UKCAS portal BEFORE the biometric appointment"?

Yes. Anything uploaded after the biometric appointment won't be considered.

On page 2 of this sub-forum, there is a thread (immigration-for-family-members/vfs-cann ... 96195.html) where it is suggested docs can still be uploaded as additional documents.

The link you post is for an application outside the UK.

This topic that you have tagged your question into is for a FLR m visa extension within the UK, for which my advice and that already given is correct.

It is important to note the actual topic circumstances when tagging a question on.

Indeed. Thanks.

seagul wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:29 pm

Masoud123 wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:16 pm

Thank you again, but My employers will not provide me with a letter unless I give them the full address of UK visa department where the letter will be presented to, whether scanned at the centre or posted. My employers need to address the letter to that relevent visa department on top of the letter, although they will be posting it to myself.

Yes a lot of employers don't issue the letter without the name of addressee & its address. In my opinion address it to UKVI and give the same previous ukvi address where in past the documents used to be sent. By doing so nothing will be affected as nothing actually will be sent there.

Thank you for your reassuring reply. We are also asking the landlord to provide a supporting letter. Can he send the letter to me electronically or does it have to be hard copy? My concern is whether the Home office wants to see his original signature or a scanned version of the letter would suffice? Thank you in advance for any advice on this.

Masoud123 wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 28, 2020 1:42 pm

Can he send the letter to me electronically or does it have to be hard copy? My concern is whether the Home office wants to see his original signature or a scanned version of the letter would suffice?

Since all documents for an extension are scanned and uploaded online anyway, it doesn't matter if the letter sent to you is already scanned or is a hard copy that you then have scanned yourself.

geoeng wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 28, 2020 1:46 pm

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Can he send the letter to me electronically or does it have to be hard copy? My concern is whether the Home office wants to see his original signature or a scanned version of the letter would suffice?

Since all documents for an extension are scanned and uploaded online anyway, it doesn't matter if the letter sent to you is already scanned or is a hard copy that you then have scanned yourself.
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geoeng wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 28, 2020 1:46 pm

Masoud123 wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 28, 2020 1:42 pm

Can he send the letter to me electronically or does it have to be hard copy? My concern is whether the Home office wants to see his original signature or a scanned version of the letter would suffice?

Since all documents for an extension are scanned and uploaded online anyway, it doesn't matter if the letter sent to you is already scanned or is a hard copy that you then have scanned yourself.

Great, thank you.

Hi there,

We are about to submit our spouse visa extension for my wife and I have just returned from my local branch of Barclays bank where I visited to obtain 6 months bank statements. at the counter I asked if they could print, stamp and sign every page for me but they refused. I was told to use the machine in the corner to print out as far back statements as I like and the machine would print them with Barclays stamp at the bottom of each page. the result was pages of photocopy-like statements in black and white but all pages had the stamp of my local branch at the bottom right corner.

My question is:

1- is this format acceptable, given that now all documents should be scanned and uploaded to the UKCAS, therefore the statements do not need to be in colour?
2- is it sufficient that there is a branch stamp at the bottom of each page Or do I also need to ask them to sign each page too?

Thank you in advance for any advice.

I dont think there is any issue, we submitted online copies of statement which was on pdf and directly uploaded.

Your is stamped by the bank further validates your account.

I would just go ahead scan those copies and upload on UKVCAS website.

Thank you for your prompt and reassuring reply. Another thing I am not sure about is the steps to do things. Clearly we will first have to submit the application online. What happens then? Do we wait for instruction from Home office to pay the fees? How soon after submitting our application should we upload documents? How do we arrange for biometrics appointment?

I would really appreciate any clarifications with regards to the steps and stages of this process. My wife and I really need to get it right and simply can’t afford any blunders.
Thank you

First step is to submit application online.

You will be prompted to pay the IHS fees in step 5 of UKVI online portal. So you pay the fees.

Once fees paid £1000 for IHS you will be given your IHS number you move to step 6 where you will be asked to print Family consent and Family declaration along with paying the visa fees.

Standard fees £1052 ; super priority £1852.

Depending what you choose.

Once all this amount is paid you will be able to upload document onto third party website UKVCAS and book your appt there.

Free appt has a lengthy wait or you can choose to pay £110 or £135 for next day appt.

You can either self upload doc on UKVCAS which is very easy or pay £40 odd to get one of the UKVCAS staff to do it for you on the appt day.

I hope this info helps.

It is all amazingly clear now. Thank you so much for the step by step explanation. You have been enormously helpful.