Hi everyone,
New to this forum.
Me and my wife have been living in Belgium this year. She is Australian and I am a British citizen studying in Belgium for my masters. Today we sent off our application to the home office as we had an appointment at the visa centre.
However, the major problem is we submitted a photocopy of our marriage certificate not an original nor a certified copy from the issuing centre, because the person who worked there said it's okay, a photocopy is fine and you don't need to submit a proper certified copy. However, reading on this forum made me realise what she said is probably wrong. It's so frustrating as we had a certified copy from the issuing centre with us during the appointment!
Is there any chance our application can get accepted despite this if everything else is okay? We had a lawyer work on our application so I assume all our other processes are okay. Does it help that our marriage certificate was issued in London and so the home office can potentially check to see that it is legitimate?
Really worried that it will be rejected and we will have to resubmit as we had planned to be in the UK in a couple of weeks. What are our chances?
Thanks for all your help. Wish I checked this forum prior to going to our appointment.
New to this forum.
Me and my wife have been living in Belgium this year. She is Australian and I am a British citizen studying in Belgium for my masters. Today we sent off our application to the home office as we had an appointment at the visa centre.
However, the major problem is we submitted a photocopy of our marriage certificate not an original nor a certified copy from the issuing centre, because the person who worked there said it's okay, a photocopy is fine and you don't need to submit a proper certified copy. However, reading on this forum made me realise what she said is probably wrong. It's so frustrating as we had a certified copy from the issuing centre with us during the appointment!
Is there any chance our application can get accepted despite this if everything else is okay? We had a lawyer work on our application so I assume all our other processes are okay. Does it help that our marriage certificate was issued in London and so the home office can potentially check to see that it is legitimate?
Really worried that it will be rejected and we will have to resubmit as we had planned to be in the UK in a couple of weeks. What are our chances?
Thanks for all your help. Wish I checked this forum prior to going to our appointment.