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spouse visa issued!!!!!

Post by yanetq » Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:38 am

Hello everyone

some days ago i received the email that my UK spouse visa was issued!!...I would like to say thanks to everyone on this forum as without your help i haven't made it. I spent many days reading your posts and advice and they really helped me out!

I was very nervous about it, but as a miracle i had a response from the consulate in only 20 days!! even when everyone told me it would take up 6 months!!!

If anyone has a question about the documents i submitted, please just let me know and it will be a pleasure to help you!

PS: Im Cuban with legal residency in Texas, US, and my husband is a British Citizen.

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Post by Mohammad24 » Sun Mar 06, 2011 6:07 am

Hi.

Wow, congratulations to you both-that's excellent news! I'm really happy for you both. :D

I would really appreciate if you can help me with what documents I'll need to apply for the Spouse settlement visa. So here's my story.

I'm married to a British national and we have been married for just under two years. We have been living together as husband and wife since the day we got married. We lived in Bangkok, and now in the Philippines. I'm working, and my wife is my dependent (she's a housewife).

So, based on the fact that my wife is the British national, lives with me here as my dependent, and doesn't work...what sort of documents will we need to support our case?


Thank you!

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Re: spouse visa issued!!!!!

Post by ElenaW » Sun Mar 06, 2011 9:14 am

yanetq wrote:Hello everyone

some days ago i received the email that my UK spouse visa was issued!!...I would like to say thanks to everyone on this forum as without your help i haven't made it. I spent many days reading your posts and advice and they really helped me out!

I was very nervous about it, but as a miracle i had a response from the consulate in only 20 days!! even when everyone told me it would take up 6 months!!!

If anyone has a question about the documents i submitted, please just let me know and it will be a pleasure to help you!

PS: Im Cuban with legal residency in Texas, US, and my husband is a British Citizen.
Congrats! Did you apply from Texas? If it's a straight forward case, I've never heard of it taking 6 months from the US.

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Post by yanetq » Sat Mar 12, 2011 6:35 pm

Hi!

Sorry I delayed to reply...Our cases are different though, as my husband and I never lived together, but he visited me every 4 months. Anyway, im listing here all the documents i submitted, they were many, and i must noticed that even when i sent a not certified passport copy of my husband, i was told that the Embassy requires a Certified one. Sorry that i can really give you an advice about your case.

-Letter from the applicant
Application for United Kingdom Entry Clearance (FORM: VAF4A)
-Valid Passport of applicant
-One passport sized colour photograph.
-Evidence of current permission to be in US (copy of Permanent Resident)
-Copy of Driver License of Texas
-Letter from Employment and I attached to this letter evidence of my payments, which is made directly by the clients. One of them deposits the money to my Bank account and the other one pay me by check. I have attached evidence of both cases.
-Letter from my part time Employment and i attached to this letter evidence of my payments.
-Settlement-English Language Requirement (VAF 4A)
-ETS, TOEFL, Internal-Based Test Examinee Score Report for the Test of English as a Foreign Language.
-Letter from Sponsor
-Form SU07/01 SPONSORSHIP UNDERTAKING
-Employment / Supporting letter from my husband's father who own the company where my husband works as Business manager
-Letter from Head of Operations Manager
-Pay lists Sep/Oct/Nov/Dec. 2010
-Details of annual taxable income (P60 End of Year Certificate)
-Council Tax, Demand Notice 2009/10
-Bank statements/Savings from Sept. 2010 to January 2011.
-Annual Mortgage Statement of Property (Accommodation where we will live together)
-Photos of Accommodation (13 pictures)
-Copy of Sponsor Passport
-Scanned copy of Sponsor Passport certified.
-Letter from Solicitor who has signed the Passport’s copy.
-Official Marriage License
-Copy of The Ceremony.
-Copy of The Letter given by the the Pastor who married us.
-Evidence of Chapel reservation for our wedding.
-Travis County Clerk receipt. (when we bought the marriage lisence)
-Dress Rental receipt.
-Divorce Decree Applicant
-Divorce Decree Sponsor
-Wedding Photos (30 pics).
-Wedding Cards from family and friends.
-Messages and supporting conversations related to the Wedding between us and family members.
-Copy of Flight Summary and Hotel Reservation, from Wed, 22-Dec/10 to 30-Dec/10
-Copy of Flight Summary and Hotel Reservation, from Thu, 16-Sept/10 to Thu, 23-Sep/10
-Copy of Flight Summary and Hotel Reservation, from Wed, 14-April/10 to Sun, 25-April/10
-Photos of our time together. (21 pics)
-Copy of Facebook pages, showing conversations between us, and relatives and friends since the beginning of our relationship until the present day.
-Copy of some MSN conversations
-Copy messages sent to my mobile
-Copy of Screen of all our emails in HOTMAIL, YAHOO, AOL and GMAIL/ 2009/2010/2011. (classified by month)
-Copy of some mail conversations
-Copy of emails sent from July 2009 to January 2011

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Re: spouse visa issued!!!!!

Post by yanetq » Sat Mar 12, 2011 6:41 pm

ElenaW wrote:
yanetq wrote:Hello everyone

some days ago i received the email that my UK spouse visa was issued!!...I would like to say thanks to everyone on this forum as without your help i haven't made it. I spent many days reading your posts and advice and they really helped me out!

I was very nervous about it, but as a miracle i had a response from the consulate in only 20 days!! even when everyone told me it would take up 6 months!!!

If anyone has a question about the documents i submitted, please just let me know and it will be a pleasure to help you!

PS: Im Cuban with legal residency in Texas, US, and my husband is a British Citizen.
Congrats! Did you apply from Texas? If it's a straight forward case, I've never heard of it taking 6 months from the US.

I was told by some lawyers and people on YAHOO, that it normally takes up 6 months in Los Angeles. People who apply in Texas have to send their documents to the British Consulate in Los Angeles, California, and all the reviews said, its the lowest Consulate in the US, that even a tourist Visa takes many weeks to be issued, but maybe, as my docs were well organized and complete, it helped me out to have a faster response from the Embassy.

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