Good evening everyone,
My wife applied for a spouse visa, USA Citizen, to move to the UK with me, UK Citizen, as we have both been living abroad together for 7 years and are now looking to return to the UK with our 3 year old daughter.
We applied on October 15th, 2017 with all of our documents and passed all of their "tests" except were refused because we were married in 2017 according to the ECO even though in our application we included our marriage certificate from 2010 and our daughters passport (British Citizen, born in Mexico with both of us as parents).
So I filled out the Online Appeals form (it crashed 20 different times, but eventually got it to work). But at no point is there anywhere to send additional supporting documents. Do we not need to send additional documents? The only information I can find is unofficial and seems very outdated. But that being said the online forms are pathetic.
No email confirmation received that it was submitted, other than an email confirming that I paid them £80, but doesn't give any more details.
And finally, what are the timelines for an appeal on this grounds? I would hope that the ECO manager would review the case file and grant a swift approval, but with my wife back in the US staying at a kind family members and me back in the UK about to start a new job I am missing my family and see horror stories of these things dragging on for months or longer!
Given that they dealt with the original case file so quickly, I'd almost rather just pay AGAIN even though it was a lot of money and have them do it all from scratch, but given that the mess up is on their end I worry that it might happen again and then I would be up shits creak.
Thanks everyone!
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