Hi guys, My wife's visa expires in August, at which point we are hoping to apply for Indefinite leave-to-remain as she will have been here 5 years. I am not working at the moment as we have been living off savings while I tried starting my own business, we do not have enough savings to use this to m...

Hi Guys, My girlfriend has been in the UK for three months now on a fiance visa, we got married last weekend and have booked a premium appointment at Croydon next week to convert to a spousal visa. Do we need to take the same amount of evidence we supplied for our fiance visa application or is it ju...

My girlfriend is applying from Israel so will be required to use the online application, I just want to know how similar the fields on the online form are to those on the paper-based VAF4A

Hi Guys,

Can somebody confirm for me if the online application for a fiance visa has the exact same fields as a VAF4A form?

I was planning to fill in a VAF4A and give it to my girlfriend to help when filling in the online application.

Sam

Hi Guys, I'm trying to find a an english test for my girlfriend to take in israel so we can apply for a fiance visa. The minimum level for a fiance visa is A1 standard and Im confident she can pass at this level, however Im having trouble finding an A1 level test she can take in Israel. Cambridge te...

Thanks very much, that puts my mind at rest!

Sam : )

Hi Guys, My girlfriend and I were about to apply for a fiance visa (in the next 6 weeks or so) and unfortunately my employer terminated my employment yesterday (giving me 2 weeks notice). I was still in my probation period but had been there 6 months. I was previously on 30k and will prob consider a...

That makes sense, I feel my own birth certificate is pretty useless apart from when I needed it to renew my passport.

Can anybody out there confirm if they have successfully made an application without an applicants birth certificate?

Thanks very much for your reply, very helpful. I guess I have to weigh the cost of the extra visa against the cost of marrying outside the UK. Unfortunately in Israel (where my girlfriend is from) they only perform religious weddings, no civil weddings so most people fly 1 hour to Cyprus and get mar...

Hi Guys, Im a UK citizen planning to marry my israeli grilfriend so we can live together in the UK. I had originally planned that we would get married outside of the UK and then she would apply for a spouse visa by post at the Embassy in Israel, where she would remain living, and hopefully after a n...

Hi Guys, Im a UK citizen with an Israeli girlfriend and we are planning to apply for a fiance visa so she can come here and get married. However, she is originally from Ethiopia and moved to Israel in the early 90s (around 8 years old) as one of the many Ethiopian Jews who were helped to move to Isr...