EU or UK visa?

Victoria1977 · Post by **Victoria1977** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:37 pm

Hi there,

I am a UK citizen, married to a US citizen who has been living and working in the UK for almost 2 years on a 'limited leave to remain' spousal visa. In March it will expire and we will have to reapply at a cost of over 500 pounds.

However, I work with a US citizen whose husband is from Sweden. I have been told that they only paid around 65 pounds for her EU visa which is valid for 10 years! Does anybody know about applying for an EU visa as opposed to a UK visa?? We are skint!!

yankeegirl · Post by **yankeegirl** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:14 pm

Duplicate thread.

mym · Post by **mym** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:18 pm

Victoria1977 wrote:Hi there,

I am a UK citizen, married to a US citizen who has been living and working in the UK for almost 2 years on a 'limited leave to remain' spousal visa. In March it will expire and we will have to reapply at a cost of over 500 pounds.

However, I work with a US citizen whose husband is from Sweden. I have been told that they only paid around 65 pounds for her EU visa which is valid for 10 years!

It's worse than that, non-EU/EEA spouses of EU/EEA citizens can come to the UK with their partner for free (and what you will be applying for is Indefinite Leave to Remain - which is 900 quid...).

Does anybody know about applying for an EU visa as opposed to a UK visa?? We are skint!!

Rather annoyingly, you can't do it in your own country. So a british citizen marrying a non-EU/EEA citizen is forced to pay a big fat wad of cash to the Home Office to apply for their various Immigration Statuses.

There is a way to get it for free via the EU route, but it means living and working in the EU/EEA outside the UK.

Read http://www.ncadc.org.uk/archives/filed% ... 7/don.html

Victoria1977 · Post by **Victoria1977** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:30 pm

Wow. Thanks for the info. It seems crazy, but not very surprising. As we only plan to stay in the UK for about another year anyway, I want to see if there is any possibility of extending my husband's Leave to Remain status (rather than converting it to an indefinite one) for a cheaper fee. Otherwise we'll just have to leave early!

mym · Post by **mym** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:34 pm

Victoria1977 wrote:I want to see if there is any possibility of extending my husband's Leave to Remain status (rather than converting it to an indefinite one) for a cheaper fee.

There isn't.

VictoriaS · Post by **VictoriaS** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:20 pm

Yes there is. You can just apply for another two years leave to remain, on form FLR (M).

Victoria

mym · Post by **mym** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:50 pm

VictoriaS wrote:Yes there is. You can just apply for another two years leave to remain, on form FLR (M).
Victoria

well yes, not that much 'cheaper' though :(

VictoriaS · Post by **VictoriaS** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:37 am

Â£750 or Â£395? Seems like quite a difference to me.

Victoria

mym · Post by **mym** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:48 am

VictoriaS wrote: Â£750 or Â£395? Seems like quite a difference to me.
Victoria

Not if you're skint!

VictoriaS · Post by **VictoriaS** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:00 pm

Even more if you're skint!

Victoria

mym · Post by **mym** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:24 pm

VictoriaS wrote:Even more if you're skint!

Victoria

Not really, as the difference in question is between 'affordable' and 'unaffordable', not between 'unaffordable' and 'twice as unaffordable'...

Oh dear, apologies for hair-splitting, I spend too much time with philosophers... :)

sakura · Post by **sakura** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:43 pm

Guys...this is a duplicate - can we lock this so as to not have two threads running?

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