Passport copy in a Spouse Visa

[yanetq]

Hello everyone!!

Please, i need your advice!!! My husband and I are has applied for a spouse visa, and i have my appointment to deposit all the documents next Friday (Jan. 21/10). After i read a few comments in this forum, i have noticed that everyone talk about that the sponsor's passport have to be original or a certificated copy, but we didnt know this!!!!, and i have a normal copy of his passport!!, what i must do?! OMG! it has been such a long and painful journey and now im too scared to have my visa refused because of this..please, i need your help!!!

[shahzad80]

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[MPH80]

Get to a post office today ... get them to use their identity checking service and immediately place the copy in an envelope and send it using their AirSure service. It's about £7 for the checking service. They'll stamp it and sign - basically it's a certified copy.

In theory - it's a 5 working day delivery ... although I know this isn't guaranteed (we sent some documents to my wife's country in South America last week and they still haven't arrived yet).

It depends which country it's going to - you might be able to pay even more and get it guaranteed.

M.

[harv]

Are you going to submit the evidence in person at the country you applied for the Spouse Visa from or submitting it in the UK? If you are submitting the evidence in the country you applying from, then isn't there anyways of certifying the copies at the submision office?

I do not know about this as well, maybe senior members of the board could shed some more light on this.

If we are submitting the Spouse Visa application and both the husband and wife are present while submitting the docs. Do we still have to get the passport copy certified or the staff at the (VFS) office are able to sign and say the copy matches the real docs by looking at the actual passport?

Can the solicitor certify the copy? if so why not just quickly find someone and get it certified that way.

[shahzad80]

Are you going to submit the evidence in person at the country you applied for the Spouse Visa from or submitting it in the UK? If you are submitting the evidence in the country you applying from, then isn't there anyways of certifying the copies at the submision office?

I do not know about this as well, maybe senior members of the board could shed some more light on this.

If we are submitting the Spouse Visa application and both the husband and wife are present while submitting the docs. Do we still have to get the passport copy certified or the staff at the (VFS) office are able to sign and say the copy matches the real docs by looking at the actual passport?

Vac would never ever certify anything.They have no authority to do so.

Can the solicitor certify the copy? if so why not just quickly find someone and get it certified that way.

If you are in UK then yes you can get certify by paying £5 fee.

What I got form yours post is that you are submitting oversea and yours sponsor is in UK and you are going to submit application tomorrow.

Shahzad

[harv]

I was wondering about this myself.

If I am applying with my partner after the marraige for a Spouse Visa. I will still be with my partner at the time of application submission and looking at other posts on this forum I understand that all pages from the passport needs to be copied that have some sort of visa or stamp and all the information and photo pages of the passport. If I get my passport certified in the UK before making the trip, I will not have the immigration stamp that I will be getting when I go for the marraige.

How do we add that extra page to the already certified copy from the UK? Or do we just take a copy to the VFS office and they sign it by looking at the original passport to certify those copies?

Sorry if I have over complicated this!

[MPH80]

Well - in which case you just need a notary or solicitor in the country where you are making your application to certify it.

Should be fairly easy to find.

[harv]

Well - in which case you just need a notary or solicitor in the country where you are making your application to certify it.

Should be fairly easy to find.

This answers my question, thanks.

[yanetq]

Hi guys!
thanks for your quick response.

the case is, that im applying from USA and my husband is currently in UK. I just noticed this about the passport last night, when i posted on here. My appointment is tomorrow and we wont have time to get any document on time as it takes many days to receive a letter from UK. So, i spoke to my husband and he went to a solicitor this morning and got a certified copy of his passport and then, he scanned this to me, he also wrote a letter to the CEO explaining on it why we are using a scan copy. Lets hope it works.

All this process has been very stressful for us, we do have a genuine relationship and are crazy in love about each other. he has visited me every three months in the past 1.5 year and every time he has gone i have felt my heart break and then spent many days very down. I just want all this finish, but have a successfully ending, as i don't think i will have the emotional strength to face a refusal response from the Embassy, so, all i do is to pray God to help us. I'm sure that all of you who has been or are in my situation, fully understand what i mean.

[batleykhan]

Unless you are a very lucky lady or the ECO looking at your application is very kind, understanding and sympathetic, they do not normally accept certified /scanned copies of ones Passport.

They want to see original certified copies at all time.

If this would have happened in the Indian subcontinent or an African country it would be an automoatic refusal, but as its in the USA, you might just get away with it if the above applies.

I wish you good luck and I hope you do get it

[yanetq]

As i didnt have more time, i just sent the documents last Friday. I included:
-Letter from the applicant
Application for United Kingdom Entry Clearance (FORM: VAF4A)
-Valid Passport of applicant
-One passport sized colour photograph.
-Evidence of current permission to be in US (copy of Permanent Resident)
-Copy of Driver License of Texas
-Letter from Employment and I attached to this letter evidence of my payments, which is made directly by the clients. One of them deposits the money to my Bank account and the other one pay me by check. I have attached evidence of both cases.
-Letter from my part time Employment and i attached to this letter evidence of my payments.
-Settlement-English Language Requirement (VAF 4A)
-ETS, TOEFL, Internal-Based Test Examinee Score Report for the Test of English as a Foreign Language.
-Letter from Sponsor
-Form SU07/01 SPONSORSHIP UNDERTAKING
-Employment / Supporting letter from my husband's father who own the company where my husband works as Business manager
-Letter from Head of Operations Manager
-Pay lists Sep/Oct/Nov/Dec. 2010
-Details of annual taxable income (P60 End of Year Certificate)
-Council Tax, Demand Notice 2009/10
-Bank statements/Savings from Sept. 2010 to January 2011.
-Annual Mortgage Statement of Property (Accommodation where we will live together)
-Photos of Accommodation (13 pictures)
-Copy of Sponsor Passport
-Scanned copy of Sponsor Passport certified.
-Letter from Solicitor who has signed the Passport’s copy.
-Official Marriage License
-Copy of The Ceremony.
-Copy of The Letter given by the the Pastor who married us.
-Evidence of Chapel reservation for our wedding.
-Travis County Clerk receipt. (when we bought the marriage lisence)
-Dress Rental receipt.
-Divorce Decree Applicant
-Divorce Decree Sponsor
-Wedding Photos (30 pics).
-Wedding Cards from family and friends.
-Messages and supporting conversations related to the Wedding between us and family members.
-Copy of Flight Summary and Hotel Reservation, from Wed, 22-Dec/10 to 30-Dec/10
-Copy of Flight Summary and Hotel Reservation, from Thu, 16-Sept/10 to Thu, 23-Sep/10
-Copy of Flight Summary and Hotel Reservation, from Wed, 14-April/10 to Sun, 25-April/10
-Photos of our time together. (21 pics)
-Copy of Facebook pages, showing conversations between us, and relatives and friends since the beginning of our relationship until the present day.
-Copy of some MSN conversations
-Copy messages sent to my mobile
-Copy of Screen of all our emails in HOTMAIL, YAHOO, AOL and GMAIL/ 2009/2010/2011. (classified by month)
-Copy of some mail conversations
-Copy of emails sent from July 2009 to January 2011

Now, do you think they will refuse my visa only because my sponsor passport is a copy?

[alanakaja1980]

Well when my husband applies for his spouse visa in the USA he will be sending a normal copy of my passport with his supporting documents. I very much doubt they will reject his application because he didn't provide a certified copy of my passport??

We have already went through a similar process for a US visa for myself in the USA and I never once had to send a certified copy of my passport or his passport. They accepted a normal copy of the biographic pages of our passports only.

Guess we will find out soon enough

[yanetq]

Well when my husband applies for his spouse visa in the USA he will be sending a normal copy of my passport with his supporting documents. I very much doubt they will reject his application because he didn't provide a certified copy of my passport??

We have already went through a similar process for a US visa for myself in the USA and I never once had to send a certified copy of my passport or his passport. They accepted a normal copy of the biographic pages of our passports only.

Guess we will find out soon enough

So, your husband will be applying soon for an UK spouse visa?

[alanakaja1980]

Well when my husband applies for his spouse visa in the USA he will be sending a normal copy of my passport with his supporting documents. I very much doubt they will reject his application because he didn't provide a certified copy of my passport??

We have already went through a similar process for a US visa for myself in the USA and I never once had to send a certified copy of my passport or his passport. They accepted a normal copy of the biographic pages of our passports only.

Guess we will find out soon enough

So, your husband will be applying soon for an UK spouse visa?

Yes within the next 2 months or so

[yanetq]

well, i already applied, and i can let you know how everything went with my visa when i have a response from the Consulate, and if the documents i sent were enough. I'm really scared about this, and i cant see the day all this finish as i miss my husband too much. Just let me know. All i can tell you is that i spent two months searching on internet about this and every time i found something different. I live in Texas and i had to send my documents to Los Angeles, California.
Yanet xx

[andymusicman]

Hi, I am in a similar situation now - what happened? Did your visa to the UK get accepted???

[Jon.Mason]

So annoying how no one bothers to feedback the results. Its selfish to only want to use the forum to get help without caring about helping others. We should all try to feedback our experiences and results

[CR001]

So annoying how no one bothers to feedback the results. Its selfish to only want to use the forum to get help without caring about helping others. We should all try to feedback our experiences and results

Kindly refrain from digging up topics from 2011, things have changed since then. We also cannot help it if members to return to update us if they choose not. At least they are no longer able to delete their post content which left many topics useless.