no where to live

[meltdown63]

Hi I have posted this question a couple of times with no response can someone please help me.

Has anyone applied and received a visa without having a place to stay in uk. We are going to rent when we get there or rather we are going to apply for a property about a week before we leave. I have spoken to a realtor over in the uk and he informed me that we can put a hold on a property for ten days for a fee. We may also stay at a travel lodge until we get a place can this be done when applying for a visa as the question on the form states where are you going to live e.g address, do you own or rent the property. Please help as this is the only thing stopping me from lodging my visa application.

Cheers

[AnAmericanInScotland]

Originally Posted by meltdown63

Hi I have posted this question a couple of times with no response can someone please help me.

Has anyone applied and received a visa without having a place to stay in uk. We are going to rent when we get there or rather we are going to apply for a property about a week before we leave. I have spoken to a realtor over in the uk and he informed me that we can put a hold on a property for ten days for a fee. We may also stay at a travel lodge until we get a place can this be done when applying for a visa as the question on the form states where are you going to live e.g address, do you own or rent the property. Please help as this is the only thing stopping me from lodging my visa application.

Cheers

Whoops, thought someone had already answered this!

The short answer is that all the UKBA wants to know regarding accommodations for successful visa applicants is that they have sufficient funds (per the area they say they are going to be living).

They understand that you are arriving without accommodations, they just want to know you can afford rents or property purchases. If you can, that part of the application shouldn't worry you any longer.

Include some print-outs from the estate agent's site showing the properties you are mulling with your supporting documents.

Book your travel lodge rooms and include that information with your application.

[Joppa]

Originally Posted by meltdown63

Hi I have posted this question a couple of times with no response can someone please help me.

Has anyone applied and received a visa without having a place to stay in uk. We are going to rent when we get there or rather we are going to apply for a property about a week before we leave. I have spoken to a realtor over in the uk and he informed me that we can put a hold on a property for ten days for a fee. We may also stay at a travel lodge until we get a place can this be done when applying for a visa as the question on the form states where are you going to live e.g address, do you own or rent the property. Please help as this is the only thing stopping me from lodging my visa application.

What most people do is to live with a relative in UK until they sort out a place of their own. If you can't, then the next best is having a property waiting for you to move into, as you suggest. Hotel booking alone is unlikely to be acceptable. For those who are travelling to UK together with their UK sponsor, they do accept that their accommodation may be provisional or prospective rather than actually owned or rented, but it's better to have somewhere definite with address you can put down on application.

[meltdown63]

Originally Posted by AnAmericanInScotland

Whoops, thought someone had already answered this!

The short answer is that all the UKBA wants to know regarding accommodations for successful visa applicants is that they have sufficient funds (per the area they say they are going to be living).

They understand that you are arriving without accommodations, they just want to know you can afford rents or property purchases. If you can, that part of the application shouldn't worry you any longer.

Include some print-outs from the estate agent's site showing the properties you are mulling with your supporting documents.

Book your travel lodge rooms and include that information with your application.

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[Joppa]

Originally Posted by AnAmericanInScotland

Whoops, thought someone had already answered this!

The short answer is that all the UKBA wants to know regarding accommodations for successful visa applicants is that they have sufficient funds (per the area they say they are going to be living).

They understand that you are arriving without accommodations, they just want to know you can afford rents or property purchases. If you can, that part of the application shouldn't worry you any longer.

Include some print-outs from the estate agent's site showing the properties you are mulling with your supporting documents.

Book your travel lodge rooms and include that information with your application.

It's not just a matter of having sufficient money to rent or buy, but more of a question of being serious about having an adequate accommodation, and some efforts being made to locate one. So more than just a printout of letting agent's properties is needed.

[AnAmericanInScotland]

Originally Posted by Joppa

It's not just a matter of having sufficient money to rent or buy, but more of a question of being serious about having an adequate accommodation, and some efforts being made to locate one. So more than just a printout of letting agent's properties is needed.

So does the OP need to actually put down a deposit on a property? Would a one month rental be acceptable, so they aren't locked into something if the property is not what they thought it was from a web tour?

[Joppa]

Originally Posted by AnAmericanInScotland

So does the OP need to actually put down a deposit on a property? Would a one month rental be acceptable, so they aren't locked into something if the property is not what they thought it was from a web tour?

Details will differ depending on circumstances, but there must be a serious intent and some efforts made to locate a suitable property. As it's difficult to do so prior to moving to UK, as well as being fraught with danger, many couples just stay with their relatives in their spare bedroom and put that down as their accommodation.

Ideally, the British sponsor of prospective relocators should travel to UK in advance to make a start on property hunting, and can sort out a lot of preliminaries short of taking out tenancy and paying a deposit and rent in advance. At least they will be in a position to put down a likely property on the application, having seen it and being satisfied about affordability, size, location and condition.

UKBA is getting tough all around on visa conditions.

[AnAmericanInScotland]

Originally Posted by Joppa

Details will differ depending on circumstances, but there must be a serious intent and some efforts made to locate a suitable property. As it's difficult to do so prior to moving to UK, as well as being fraught with danger, many couples just stay with their relatives in their spare bedroom and put that down as their accommodation.

Ideally, the British sponsor of prospective relocators should travel to UK in advance to make a start on property hunting, and can sort out a lot of preliminaries short of taking out tenancy and paying a deposit and rent in advance. At least they will be in a position to put down a likely property on the application, having seen it and being satisfied about affordability, size, location and condition.

UKBA is getting tough all around on visa conditions.

Thank-you for clarifying that on the accommodations.

Yes, UKBA is toughing up on visa conditions, I'm learning something new every hour on that!

[Jess.L]

Originally Posted by Joppa

What most people do is to live with a relative in UK until they sort out a place of their own. If you can't, then the next best is having a property waiting for you to move into, as you suggest. Hotel booking alone is unlikely to be acceptable. For those who are travelling to UK together with their UK sponsor, they do accept that their accommodation may be provisional or prospective rather than actually owned or rented, but it's better to have somewhere definite with address you can put down on application.

Joppa, for the EEA FP, would putting down a friend's address suffice? I have a friend in the city where we're intending to go to. If she could house us temporarily, would this support our application?

[Joppa]

Originally Posted by Jess.L

Joppa, for the EEA FP, would putting down a friend's address suffice? I have a friend in the city where we're intending to go to. If she could house us temporarily, would this support our application?

Probably, provided you get your friend to write a letter formally offering you to house you free of charge, with indication of size of property and how many will be living. Proof of accommodation isn't always required for EEA family permit application.