UK Spouse Visa - Various Questions for Clarity

[gratiaDei777]

Dear All,

My wife is going to apply for her UK spouse visa soon, I am the sponsor.

I, the sponsor, am a UK citizen, but have been abroad for 4 years . . . is this going to be a problem?

(the sponsor is meant to be a UK resident . . .)

Thanks

[Casa]

If you are currently living outside of the UK, as the sponsor in order to meet the minimum income level of £18,600 p.a you have the following options:

1. Submit evidence that you have been earning the equivalent of £18.600 for the 6 months immediately prior to submitting the application in your current country of residence
AND
Have a confirmed job offer to start within 3 months of arrival in the UK, again meeting the £18,600 p.a earnings level.

2. Re-locate to the UK ahead of your wife and once you have 6 months of payslips and the corresponding bank statements showing that you are earning £18,600 p.a you can then submit your wife's spouse visa application

3. Qualify with savings of £62,500 (or the equivalent in local currency) held in an accessible account for at least 6 months. Savings can be joint.
If the savings are from the sale of property there's no requirement to have held them for the 6 month period.

[gratiaDei777]

Thanks,

I'm going through the savings route (£62,500).

So, to clarify, if I have the savings, the fact that I have been abroad for the past 4 years is not grounds for rejection, right?

[Casa]

Thanks,

I'm going through the savings route (£62,500).

So, to clarify, if I have the savings, the fact that I have been abroad for the past 4 years is not grounds for rejection, right?

No.

[CR001]

Thanks,

I'm going through the savings route (£62,500).

So, to clarify, if I have the savings, the fact that I have been abroad for the past 4 years is not grounds for rejection, right?

No it is not.

Have you held the savings in an accessible account for a minimum of 6 months? Do you have evidence of source of funds if HO asks for It?

[gratiaDei777]

Thanks,

I'm going through the savings route (£62,500).

So, to clarify, if I have the savings, the fact that I have been abroad for the past 4 years is not grounds for rejection, right?

No it is not.

Have you held the savings in an accessible account for a minimum of 6 months? Do you have evidence of source of funds if HO asks for It?

It will have been 6 months by the time we apply,

Yes, we have evidence,

Thanks!

[gratiaDei777]

Dear All,

I have this faint recollection of reading somewhere that all evidence has to be A4 sized.

Do photos (wedding, time spent together etc.) have to be printed A4 size as well?

Or am I remembering wrong, and in fact not all evidence has to be A4 size?

Thanks.

[gratiaDei777]

Dear All,

In the online application form for the spouse visa, it asks for the applicant's mother's + father's place of birth details,
Does this mean that their birth certificates need to be presented as evidence?
(I don't remember ever seeing this on the various lists of evidence I've seen floating around on the web)

Thanks!

[Casa]

Does this mean that their birth certificates need to be presented as evidence?
(I don't remember ever seeing this on the various lists of evidence I've seen floating around on the web)

This isn't a requirement.

[gratiaDei777]

Dear All,

My wife (the Applicant) and I married last December; We hope to apply for her UK Spouse Visa in July.

My wife has not changed her surname yet, because I thought it'd be complicated changing all her documents.

Is it OK for my wife (the Applicant) not to change her name until after she gets her UK Spouse Visa?
(Or will this be an issue with the UK Immigration people?)

Thanks.

[CR001]

There is no legal requirement to change her surname. She can choose to keep her surname forever if she wishes to.

[CR001]

All your topics have been merged. Kindlly keep ALL question in this topic rather than start a new thread with each question.

See also Multiple Posts (click)

[gratiaDei777]

Dear all,

Does anybody know:

How long after submitting your application at VFS can you get an interview?
Are we talking a week or several weeks after?
(I intend to use the priority service, but experience of non-priority service also welcome!)

Thanks.

[gratiaDei777]

P.S.
Dear CR001,

Re:

All your topics have been merged. Kindlly keep ALL question in this topic rather than start a new thread with each question.

See also Multiple Posts (click)

I wholly understand why you did this.
One suggestion: Could you change the title of this post from "UK Spouse Visa - Various Questions for Clarity"
to "UK Spouse Visa - Various Questions, Scroll Down for LATEST"? (Or something similar)

My concern is that, when one clicks on this thread, one sees my earliest question first (which has already been well answered), and my latest question is waay down at the bottom, and the latest questions are the ones I really need help with, ya know?

Sorry for posting like this, I don't know how to send a PM (I can't click on your username).

Thanks

[CR001]

When ypu post in a topic, it moves up to the top of the most recent posted topics and members know to scroll down to see the latest post.

[gratiaDei777]

Dear all,
Does the Applicant's Birth Certificate need to be submitted,
or just the Sponsor's?

Thanks

[Casa]

Dear all,
Does the Applicant's Birth Certificate need to be submitted,
or just the Sponsor's?

Thanks

No

[gratiaDei777]

Dear All,

On the VAF4a online form, there is a field for 'Place of Birth as stated the passport or travel document'.
My wife(the APPLICANT)'s passport does not state her place of birth.
What should we do?

Thanks

[mb7891]

Dear All,

On the VAF4a online form, there is a field for 'Place of Birth as stated the passport or travel document'.
My wife(the APPLICANT)'s passport does not state her place of birth.
What should we do?

Thanks

Can you confirm that the passport does not have line for place or birth or are you saying there is nothing there for that entry?

[gratiaDei777]

There is no line for place of birth at all . . .

[mb7891]

i am sure some others can pipe in, in case im wrong

in that case you can just add the actual place of birth of the form, and the in the further information explain the passport does not have a place of birth listed.

Does your spouse have a birth cert? maybe you can include that to show it

[gratiaDei777]

Yeah, you're right.

It's just that the birth certificate is in Japanese, so I'd have to fork out more money for translation + notarisation *sob*

But seems like it's the best way,

Many thanks!

[gratiaDei777]

Dear All,

My savings reached the requisite amount (over 62,500 GBP in our case) on Jan 20th 2017.

Can I therefore apply July 20th, or is it July 21st?

Many thanks.

[gratiaDei777]

Dear All,

Can a sponsor accompany an applicant into a visa application centre?
(The applicant does not speak English perfectly, and neither does she fully understand the local language, which is Korean. She's got Korean citizenship, but she was born and raised in Japan)

Thanks

[mb7891]

Dear All,

Can a sponsor accompany an applicant into a visa application centre?
(The applicant does not speak English perfectly, and neither does she fully understand the local language, which is Korean. She's got Korean citizenship, but she was born and raised in Japan)

Thanks

You will need to check with the Visa application centre, some only allow the applicants in and no one else. but it would be better to contact them directly and ask the question with your explanation.