Based in Moscow-Returning to UK

[britmikh]

Hi- my current situation is as follows

I am a UK citizen, been married for 3 years to a Russian citizen, we have a daughter who has dual nationality. We want to return to the UK, I have been working here in Moscow for the last 7 months and have a guaranteed job over the threshold of 18600 upon my return. However last year I was working in UK and my wife was refused a family visitor visa, this time she will apply for a settlement visa, could there be a problem and if so what? Regarding accommodation in UK, I have an option of renting my brothers 2 bedroomed house or staying temporarily with relatives , could that be a problem?

[Wanderer]

Do you:

1. Have savings of £62500 or more?

or

2: Has your employment in Russia been for six months or more and is over £18600 pa?

WRT to accommodation renting a place is fine as is staying with relative so long as you can show it's fine with the owners and there is no overcrowding.

[britmikh]

Do you:

1. Have savings of £62500 or more?

or

2: Has your employment in Russia been for six months or more and is over £18600 pa?

WRT to accommodation renting a place is fine as is staying with relative so long as you can show it's fine with the owners and there is no overcrowding.

Many thanks for your reply.
1. No I don't have this amount of money
2. Yes 7 months and about £45 000
In regards to staying with relatives yes, How do I prove it's not over crowded?

[Wanderer]

Do you:

1. Have savings of £62500 or more?

or

2: Has your employment in Russia been for six months or more and is over £18600 pa?

WRT to accommodation renting a place is fine as is staying with relative so long as you can show it's fine with the owners and there is no overcrowding.

Many thanks for your reply.
1. No I don't have this amount of money
2. Yes 7 months and about £45 000
In regards to staying with relatives yes, How do I prove it's not over crowded?

So ur ok on finances, you'll need to provide a plan of the house etc, or better still a survey etc.

What where u doing v Moskve, I've half a mind to go there myself, having a Russian partner for the lat 12 years in UK....

[britmikh]

Do you:

1. Have savings of £62500 or more?

or

2: Has your employment in Russia been for six months or more and is over £18600 pa?

WRT to accommodation renting a place is fine as is staying with relative so long as you can show it's fine with the owners and there is no overcrowding.

Many thanks for your reply.
1. No I don't have this amount of money
2. Yes 7 months and about £45 000
In regards to staying with relatives yes, How do I prove it's not over crowded?

So ur ok on finances, you'll need to provide a plan of the house etc, or better still a survey etc.

What where u doing v Moskve, I've half a mind to go there myself, having a Russian partner for the lat 12 years in UK....

Thanks for that- I was Project Manager of a re fit program for a restaurant chain.

Sorry for the questions, here but I find the rules and documents required quite confusing.

[britmikh]

Another question
I am a bit confused about which visa my wife needs to apply for as I got sent this link

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... uses-set03

But here it states that a spouse is someone who is married for four years or more, we have been married for 2.5 years, but lived together already for 5 years.

[Wanderer]

Another question
I am a bit confused about which visa my wife needs to apply for as I got sent this link

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... uses-set03

But here it states that a spouse is someone who is married for four years or more, we have been married for 2.5 years, but lived together already for 5 years.

That refers to ILE which I don't think exists anymore. Basically it was the case that if married and living abroad for 4 years or more the spouse would effectively be granted ILR immediately on relocation to UK, sure thats gone now but in any case it wouldn't apply to you.

She needs to apply for spouse visa, think the form is VAF4A, should be granted a visa for 2.5 years, which can be extended another 2.5 years, then ILR, then Citizenship if wanted.

[britmikh]

Many thanks for that and sorry for the many questions.

Obviously I have some documents which need to be translated into English, do these need to be by a certified translator with a stamp on the documents? Or is it enough just for the translator to sign and provide his/her diploma and contact details?

[Amber]

ILE no longer exists for spouses/civil partner/akin.

[britmikh]

ILE no longer exists for spouses/civil partner/akin.

Thanks, but that was answered before.

My questions is as I have some documents which need to be translated into English, do these need to be by a certified translator with a stamp on the documents? Or is it enough just for the translator to sign and provide his/her diploma and contact details?

[Amber]

I was merely confirming the rules.

[britmikh]

Does anyone know if I need to submit birth certificates? As I read conflicting info.

[britmikh]

Urgent question- we are filling out the online form and have a question regarding dependent children- our daughter is 16 months old,is a dual national and has a British passport. Do we enter her here on this?

[britmikh]

Hi All,

We submitted the application on the 27th March in Moscow, still nothing, is anybody in similar situation? How long on average do people have to wait?

Thanks in advance.

[Casa]

The UKBA official stats are currently showing 98% of settlement visas submitted in Moscow are being processed within 90 days.

[sagareva]

dude... I am in Moscow too, applying for ILE for my kids soon (they used to be tier 1 dependants but then they were abroad when it expirde, then they were family visitors... long story short, I am now settled and here we are. but this isn't about me.

anyhow, didn't expect so many of us here have a Russian connection -- I honestly thought it was just me

to aleviate some of your fears, family visitor refusal has nothing to do with settlement.

as far as wait, they have recently picked up on March/April applications for settlement here, since visitor visas are now sent to Sheffield and I reckon visa officers here at the Embassy are left with settlement and PBS, so expect to hear soon (I hope). Monitor email very closely, the new visa application centre is a mess, and especially application s yet submitted at teh old center and to be returned via a new one, are in a bit of a limbo. you still submitted through VFS, right? well good luck getting your stuff back from Teleperformance, I hear it's hell. Did you write to the Embassy email address? they are sometimes helpful telling people if their applications have been proceessed or not.

you did not need to enter your daughter anywhere on the online forms, I reckon, she is a British citizen. techincallyt whatever offline appendix you are filing to the form that relates to finances, where it asks about accomodation and money and such, you have to obviously list a child as your dependant, regardless of whether they are British. On one hand. But this is I guess where adequate maintenance and accomodation is calculated.

But on another, since you are applying under appendix FM for your wife, I do not think financial requirrement there would encompass a child who is already British, or that anything bad can possibly ever come from you failing to include her, as your British child is obviously eligible for public funds. methinks. But she would still be part of calculation on accomodation. Those are all offline forms though.

And, I assume you guys knew about the new Tb requirement, right? caught somme folks by surprise here

[sagareva]

and, I can't imagine you need anyone's birth certificates here. your child is already british and your wife doesnt need hers. that i am sure of.
but some people find that sending in a joint child's birth certificate sort of serves to demonstrate that they have a real marriage. so, only if for that purpose.

[sagareva]

as for translations -- generally in Moscow they always accepted just translations, self-translated, due to the fact that I think all post staff here speak Russian. lately they have started to say that you need a statutory declaration of a translator, even if that is yourself, stating that thisd is a turue translation. then they started saying that it needs to be a propfessional translator if those are long-term visas, but I personally don't believe that -- especially since it's long term visas thatare now considered in Moscow, by Russian-speaking staff familiar with Russian documents. I have **never* heard of anyone who submitted anything in russia being refused because of uncertified translations.

[Hardan12]

Hi ,

we applied on april 12th and havent heard a thing so emailed the embassy and was told visa is still awaiting assessment, this is our second application

Process is long and statistics for april are not up yet,teleperformance are also useless.

Anyone heard about there visa since change of centre ?

[sagareva]

TP are massively useless but folks are getting at least visitor visas, poco un poco

do you speak Russian?

if yes then most of the venting out happens here

http://forum.awd.ru/viewforum.php?f=527

[Hardan12]

Unfortunately i dont, processing times havent been updated since march.Just trying to find out roughly how long were going to be waiting to see if we need to rebook some arrangements in uk and also do i visit my fiancé again in russia.

90 days to process a visa application seems really extravagant