request for quick response on visa application

Hi,

I have recently applied for Tier 4 extension along with my dependents. We applied on Sep 22, hoping to receive a decision within a week or two, but that hasn't happened.

Now, I will need to start spending maintenance funds, as need to pay for accommodation, that too in bulk. How does that effect my financial position once my application starts to get considered?

Also, my previous visa was also a tier 4 for studying for a masters degree. During the masters, my spouse and kids stayed in home country firstly due to delay in school admissions and later due to Covid. So for extension visa, I had no document to show my spouse and I lived together. What is the best alternative document for such a scenario? Please reply.

P.S. is there any way of requesting an early decision due to unusual circumstances?

Hello

You can try to ask the university to contact the Home Office. As a sponsor, they have a more direct contact and they could be able to make things move for you or at least trigger something.

Once you lodge the application, they don't ask to see maintenance funds again. You can spend it if you are sure the money is not needed again.

ibdo wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 06, 2020 9:13 pm

Now, I will need to start spending maintenance funds, as need to pay for accommodation, that too in bulk. How does that effect my financial position once my application starts to get considered?

It does not affect it.

ibdo wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 06, 2020 9:13 pm

So for extension visa, I had no document to show my spouse and I lived together. What is the best alternative document for such a scenario? Please reply.

There is no specific alternative document. You will need to provide evidence that even though you lived apart, your marriage was genuine and subsisting. Visits, snapshots of communications, ongoing shared assets, etc. The international student adviser at your university can give one-to-one advice about it.

ibdo wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 06, 2020 9:13 pm

P.S. is there any way of requesting an early decision due to unusual circumstances?

There is probably an expedited option, but you need to pay for that when you apply.

sah10406 wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 07, 2020 8:13 am

There is no specific alternative document. You will need to provide evidence that even though you lived apart, your marriage was genuine and subsisting. Visits, snapshots of communications, ongoing shared assets, etc. The international student adviser at your university can give one-to-one advice about it.

Thank you for your reply.

I was advised to write a detailed letter explaining my circumstances. Additionally, I have attached air tickets of my travel back to my family during Christmas holidays and later in June, when univs closed due to Covid. Should these suffice?

Zerubbabel wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 06, 2020 9:26 pm

Hello

You can try to ask the university to contact the Home Office. As a sponsor, they have a more direct contact and they could be able to make things move for you or at least trigger something.

Once you lodge the application, they don't ask to see maintenance funds again. You can spend it if you are sure the money is not needed again.

Thanks, I have requested the university to give them a nudge.

The university has come back to me saying their contact at UKVI responded that I should hear from them shortly. That was on Thursday last week. Today, I complete 3 weeks of having submitted my application. No idea what is happening with my application.

I submited Tier-4 dependent visa of my wife on 10 Sept, and received email from sheffield (visa office) on 26 Sept that it's not a straight forward case and also asking me to provide TB test & bank statement (albeit, i provided these two documents to Gerry at the time of docs submission).


Since then, I didn't hear anything from them. Even. I escalated by case on 2 Oct but still decision awaiting. I called to thier call centre and then told me that due to COVID backlog, visa application has been delayed for most of the applicants. Nothing to worry. its almost 25 working days, since my document submitted to Gerry but no decision yet.