Hi Guys, New to this forum but joined on the recommendation of a friend and fellow user - who says you lot are incredibly intelligent and helpful :) Before I explain my situation and urge you for help, please don't mistake my incompetence for laziness. My brain is terrible in this kind of...

Hi Everyone, it is nice to be in this forum, My fiancee is currently based in East Africa and she has master degree and Bsc in architecture. We have just completed all the documentation for critical skill visa requirements, SAQA, SACAP visa letter, etc. and she is about to submit soon in coming...

Hi All, I've been doing some reading through the website, among other places, and I am wondering if having a paid advisor may be the best way to go with this. I've had my now fiancee over for the past 5 1/2 months, where both her and her daughter (3 years old) lived with me. She came as my...

Hello everyone (in particular Joppa, if you are around)! I hate to waste your time, but would anyone mind reading through this letter of support and seeing if it seems ok please? Thanks in advance. Letter of Support from UK Sponsor FAO: Entry Clearance Officer RE: Fiancée Visa Application for...

I see that there's an option of stating your marital status as engaged while submitting an EOI. Does this mean that I can include my fiancee as a secondary applicant in 190 visa?

Hi - I recently submitted an application for a UK Fiancee Visa priority from USA. We hired a lawyer to help prepare the application for us and ensure we had all the correct documents. The application has been submitted and all documents confirmed by the lawyer and sent off. We received the...

Good morning! I'm utterly confounded with when to plan, and in what order. I am American and my fiancé is British. We intend to marry and for me to emigrate to England. He meets the financial requirements. We're in our early 30s and have been engaged for about two weeks, in a relationship for...

Hi - Would appreciate any help: My wife is on a valid fiancee visa in the UK (Currently residing here) and we were married this past weekend. She is a US citizen / passport holder and I am an Irish citizen living legally in the UK. We want to change her visa so she has the right to work and...

Hi all, First of all such a big thank you to everyone who contributes on this forum, I don't know how my fiancee and I would have pulled our application together without all of this info! Just wondering if anyone knows how applications are processed in Manila? Is it just first in, first...

My fiancee and I are preparing our documents for a UK fiancee visa and after scouring this forum I have noticed a lot of people include a letter of intent and/or introduction from both the applicant and sponsor. What sort of things should this letter cover? Thanks!

Hi all, I am a UK citizen, I lived in Barranquilla, Colombia for 16 months where I met my fiancee. I have now been back in the UK for 10 months and we are applying for a fiancee visa for her. One concern I have about our application is that we have not lived together. Question 1.19 of Appendix 2...

Hello, My fiance (from Russia) and I are about to apply for a UK Fiancee visa for her and I am her sponsor. I think we just about have everything in order to start the application but was wondering if anyone here could help with a few things I'm VERY confused about on the VAF4A forms... We are...

Hi all, I'll try and make this as clear as I can. I am a British citizen. My fiancée is from the USA and intends to move here (specifically Scotland) in a year on a fiancée visa, with the intent of marrying and living in the UK afterwards. We, like many, tick all the boxes except for the...

Hello to all. So the evidence we have so far is thus (the binder is so thick we’re having to buy a new one): 1. Appendix 2 (VAF4A) 2. Personal Details Form (VAF4A 3. Sponsorship Undertaking Form SUO7/12 4. Evidence of Applicant and Sponsor’s Identity 5. Evidence of Applicant and Sponsor’s...

Hello everyone, I am a UK citizen with a US fiancée and we would like to move her over here initially to marry and then stay. 2 questions about the finance element. 1 - I earn £18,300 p/a but i have a second job that pays me £1,200 p/a. Can i combine these salaries to meet the required...

I have just accepted a position in Dubai, the company will sponser my Visa. I will naturally be looking to take my fiancee out with me but the childcare positions she is looking at / being offered aren't prepared to sponsor her Visa. How do we go about getting past this apart from the obvious...

Spouse citizenship: Bangladeshi Service required: Convert from fiancee visa to 2-year spouse visa Cost: GBP850 Requirement: Spouse needs to be there with you! Public Enquiry Office: Solihull, Birmingham (We live in another city but this was the only city where we could get an appointment). PEO...

I would like to add a little bit of help for anyone who is engaged going in to visit their Fiancee on the Visa Waiver, or 6 Month visit Visa, as when I was looking for information on this I stressed because there is not too much on the topic. This means Visitor Visa!! No Intent to Marry or...

Hi all, i am a national of Trinidad and Tobago. An i met my boyfriend online in mid August of last year (2010). He is a national of England. I went out to see him in October of last year till, till the 10th of march this year. Which was just under the Six Months that i could of stayed on my...

New requirements for those outside the European Union who want to marry an immigrant in the UK are now in force. The new measures meant that partners coming to the UK for marriages and civil partnerships must prove they have a command of the English language. It covers those applying to extend...