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by felipefm » Fri Jul 20, 2018 5:49 pm
good evening everyone. I'm Felipe, I'm applying for a settlement/family visa with my partner Ian, he's from the UK, Birmingham. We've met during my time studying there one year ago and now we're applying for a family spouse visa. After a very silly attempt to apply for a refused marriage visitor visa, as we intended to get married and I'd be back to Brazil to finish my PhD and later on this year we would be applying for the settlement visa, we are now doing so with the help of a lawyer. I did apply yesterday in São Paulo but the VFS agency who intermediates the visa application, said it was uncommon for the applicant to apply only the cover letter and other few documents the solicitor sent me, as they were now scanning everything (proof of relationship, finances, etc.) at the time of the appointment. I then postponed to the next day to get advice from the solicitor and she said I could go on as planned, that the rest of the documents (it was more than 600 pages, with originals and copies within) would be sent to Sheffield's visa application center to be analysed with no problems. I did that the next day and the agency took the application but insisted that was not advised. Even with the solicitor's reassurance, I'm still a little bit insecure with the whole thing, so if anyone has any experience with such matter or knew of someone who went through the same process, I'd love to hear from you. thanks!
