Question on spouse visa online app form

[acag]

Hello everyone,

On the process now of filling out the spouse visa online application form on Visa4UK website and have got a few questions which may probably sound silly to ask here, but would rather ask than be sorry and be left wondering:

1. I have recently married but have not changed or updated any legal documents yet to reflect my married name. Given this, is "no" the correct answer to the question "Have you ever used, or been known by, any other names? This includes a married name, maiden name, name at birth, professional name?" Or does the question includes even "informal" use of my married name, like for example when I filled in a form with my married name in there for availing adventure activities during a holiday?

2. An extension of the question above is: if I clicked “Yes” to the said question, I am then asked to enter these details – surname, given name, reason for name change, date of name change. There’s a note however on the side that states “Family/Last Name as stated in the passport or travel document…” which is confusing since this appears to me like it’s asking information of the current passport or travel document. Also, with them asking for date of name change tells me or sounds to me like that it’s only legal name change/s that is covered by this question and not informal ones like the one I exampled above.

3. On the Sponsor Details, my husband is a British National and his passport doesn’t have the place of issue specifically as entry in there. So do I just put in “United Kingdom” in that field under Place of Issue or shall I just leave it blank? Or will the form actually allow it to be left blank? The bit is the side note states “Place of Issue as stated in the passport or travel document”, but again his passport doesn’t have this Place of Issue entry.
4. Still on the Sponsor Details, the question “When did they arrive in the UK?” also left me fully wondering. My husband has always been living in the UK, since birth! Do I then put in there his date of birth? Sorry, I thought this question is just straightforward, but just want to make sure .

5. On the Medical Treatment section, on the question “Have you ever received medical treatment in the UK?”, at first I thought it only refers to well medical treatment to diseases etc. But am I correct or mistaken in thinking this? Or does the question covers GP visits/consultations, routine dental checkups and routine health checkups? Does the question include dental procedures like root canal for example?

Thank you,
ACAG

[acag]

Hello, anyone please who could help shed a light to the questions? Thanks, acag

[metanoia]

Hi

1. It asks for any legal name change ***passport or National Identity card etc*** so if you haven't change your name you'll answer it as No

2. As above

3. Since its not mentioned on British passport you can enter city and country.

4. Date of birth

5. Any sort of treatments / consultations should be mentioned as per my understanding.

You can find the guidelines to fill VAF4a here in the last pages
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... /VAF4A.pdf

[acag]

Hi metanoia, thank you for getting back to me.

I just have a further question about Appendix 2 (VAF 4A December 2013) Financial Requirement form:

On Question 1.25 Do you and your sponsor have any shared financial responsibilities? Put a cross (x) in the relevant box >>>>>>>>>>>>, I'm not quite sure how to answer or approach this question.

My situation is below:
My then partner (now husband) lent me a loan which I was paying back to him a fixed regular amount every month. I didn't have too but I insisted I do it like that. Even before my work had ceased, my husband had been telling me to stop paying him back. With still 5 months left to pay, I stopped paying him though only this April. He is also going to fully support my visa application with himself being my sponsor. Is a loan like this considered shared financial responsibility and so I must answer "YES" to question 1.25? In addition, when I moved in with him, we told the local council that he's no longer just living on his own at his rented place (i.e cannot avail anymore the council tax discount for living on his own) and so I've got my name on the council tax bill although it's still my husband who pays for this council tax bill. So considering this and even with my name on the bill, am I correct in answering "NO" to this question 1.25? The council tax bill is among the documents we will show to prove we have lived together in a relationship akin to marriage at any time (question 1.19 of the same form).

Also, my husband will be providing his 6 month's worth of bank statement (01 December 2016 until 26 June 2017 to be exact). And in there, the loan repayment I was making to this account of his are recorded. Am I correct in thinking then that in the letter explaining the origins and timings of deposits NOT in keeping with account history, these regular monthly payment of the same amount are NOT considered NOT in keeping with account history because these are regular payments shown in each of the months covered in the said bank statements?

Do we need to explain in the letter above small amounts (£43, £95) I transferred one-off to my husband's account? The £95 for instance was the amount I insisted I transfer back to him as contribution to the cost incurred when he collected me to move in with him. My husband paid the combined van hire fee and deposit of £200. As another question, are transfers like these considered shared financial responsibilities and hence a YES answer to question 1.25?

Hope you can help provide guidance to the above. Thanks so much.

[acag]

Hi everyone, hope you could help with my latest query above. Thank you.

[metanoia]

HI ACAG

If you see the form its in many ways self explanatory because of guidance provided in last pages.
For your query

1.25 Do you and your sponsor have any shared financial
responsibilities?
Put a cross in the relevant box. If ‘yes’ please tell us what these
responsibilities are and how much you and your sponsor each
contribute.

From your message i have picked few things :

1. You are applying from within the UK for FLR M which is in some ways different from spouse visa outside UK so i dont have much knowledge about it but i will try to answer as per my understanding.

2. I dont think your loan payments to your husband count as shared responsibility but yes you should explain it in additional information to explain same amount transfer in his account every month.

3.. As your husband is your sponsor and paying the council tax bill so i dont think this count as shared responsibility as you are not contributing towards it.

4. For small one off payments i dont think needs to be declared or explained as they want to be satisfied for an ongoing meeting of minimum income requirement and not every transaction of your bank statement.

I hope this answer your questions and if any one more knowledge finds any discrepancy in my answers then please correct it.

[olga79]

hello,
Could you , please, help me?

I got married and took the family name of my husband.
now I am filling out online spouse visa application and there is a question "Have you ever used, or been known by, any other names?"I chose the option YES and put my name and family name before marriage ,
What should I choose in "reason for name change"?
the reason for name change in my case is marriage , not the types of names that they give you to choose.

please, help me , what shoud I put for "reason for name change"?

Thank you in advance.
Olga

[metanoia]

hello,
Could you , please, help me?

I got married and took the family name of my husband.
now I am filling out online spouse visa application and there is a question "Have you ever used, or been known by, any other names?"I chose the option YES and put my name and family name before marriage ,
What should I choose in "reason for name change"?
the reason for name change in my case is marriage , not the types of names that they give you to choose.

please, help me , what shoud I put for "reason for name change"?

Thank you in advance.
Olga

You can simply type "Married Name" there's no scroll down to choose from

[olga79]

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You can simply type "Married Name" there's no scroll down to choose from
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Thank you very much ,
so the reason for change name is married name?

I thought the reason should be marriage

[metanoia]

Thank you very much ,
so the reason for change name is married name?

I thought the reason should be marriage

Since you have to type it yourself, You can decide whatever seems appropriate. Màrriage should be ok