I am not sure Church marriage certificate is valid for UK Visa . Please use the church certificate to apply for registered marriage certificate from government . It took 2 months for me to get 2 copies of original gov registered marriage certificate which I used for Tier 2 ICT visa.

@ankjain, are you saying there is a 1 year cooling off period if gaurav wants to apply tier 2 dependent from outside uk immediately after his tier 2 long term ICT visa expiry? .. If so can you quote the rule where it is written so please?.

Hi Nilesh,
I am also waiting for my visas. I am sorry to hear that you are also in the same sorry state as I am in.Please let me know who gave the information to retrieve the passport back and I will ask them and know the process of withdrawing the applications as well.

"it was delayed or on hold without any particular reason." Sounds strange. I dont know how you keep calm in this situation as I feel humiliated before my office folks and family on not knowing why investigation is this long as it implies I have some thing to hide or documents not straightf...

Hi Nilesh, I have called paid helpline so many times to enquire and they are parroting the same thing as "no updates" but luckily not accepting payment for the last 3 calls. I have complained using email id given for complaints @homeoffice and got response saying investigation is in progre...

Hi Manci, Sorry if this question is being repetitive . My Tier 2 General Dependent visa is being investigated for 3 months and VFS staff is saying he thinks that there is a cooling off period between Tier 2 ICT ST and Tier 2 General DEPENDENT and on that grounds it is being investigated for 3 months...

HI Jaideep, I have been in UK as Tier 2 ICT Short term migrant july2013-14 and now I am in India.I have applied Tier 2 General dependent visa and waiting for 3 months.. Did you say that you had applied Tier 2 General dependent visa from India within an year of your Tier 2 ICT short term expiry ?. IF...

Hi Physicskate, I appreciate your response. However please note that Tier 2 Migrant (ICT ) to Tier 2 General Dependent switch can be done without any cooling off period. I am applying from out of country as my Tier 2 ICT visa expired and I cannot do switch in. Please let me know if you can guess any...

Thanks Frontier Mole for your inputs . 1) Against me if issues are there why they are investigating for 3 months .I have been in UK as Tier ICT migrant for 1 year till July this year and stayed in UK 2006-9. Bank Balance or Marriage certificate verification should not take 3 months or they can inter...

Hi Experts, I have applied Tier 2 general visa along with my daughter of 3 years old and it is delayed by 12 weeks. I receive mails from UKVISA service every time that the "decision on your application has been delayed whilst further enquiries are being conducted". SLA for this visa is 100...

Hi Nilesh, my biometric date was 1st sep and already 83 days have passed though working days will be lesser I guess . I called VFS helpline and they said processing time is calculated by working days and if you count 12 weeks of working days it would be really more than 4 months . VFS staff has aske...

Hi Experts , 75 days have passed from the date of Biometric application for Tier 2 General dependent visa. I feel my case is the rarest case and can any expert suggest some ways to get past the VFS and reach british commission pls?. I have paid 200 pounds on just 10 phone calls to VFS who parrot the...

Hi NileshN, Thanks for sharing the pain . My case is dependent visa which is family visa and only money for maintenance and Relationship should be verified or so I thought. I guess they are now investigating with Hospitals (for any free costly surgeries expenses I made in UK) or Police (Any traffic ...

Hi ,I am sharing my inputs as below 1) Am I required to take an English proficiency test before hand (Eg IELTS) Not required 2) Would my degrees be held valid in UK (I have an Engineering Bachelor and MBA degree with 7+ years of marketing experience) Apply NARIC equivalence certification 3) Are ther...

Any expert please share your views on why my dependent visa along with my child is deferred and delayed for more than 60 days please. Did I miss some documents here ? . I have submitted the following for my dependent visa application . 1) Tier2 migrant's visa pages with COS info 2) Original bank sta...

HI Renu, Your husband cannot move from T2ICT to T2General without a cooling off of 1 year. However before his visa expires if you get a sponsor for T2General then he can do an in country switch from T2ICT to T2General dependent and find employment from any company in UK. Once you have got T2G your c...

I have submitted Tier 2 dependent visa application on 1sep and recently called helpline and they have given an escalation case number as well. However VFS staff was implying that since I had been in ICT (company sponsored )visa visits to UK many times before they have referred it to 3rd party for in...

HI Physicskate , I have given original marriage certificate (registered government document as per country norms) and last 1 year's rental agreement ,council tax,utility bills,bank statements all having joint names (mine +wife's). As you have suggested to wait like everyone else ,I am wondering if 2...

Can any expert please help . I have been contributing for other queries wherever I know from my novice level to new applications.
Now for my case I would request some experts to atleast share their views on my queries pls.Please help.

Another reason of delay I can assume is as follows. My NIN number used between 2006-9 has not been updated with status (single to married) + change of address +change of company+ gap in uk stay 2009-13). I gave same NIN number to the new company while I was in UK till 3 months back (Aug-2013-Jul 201...

My wife got a Tier 2 general visa and working in UK for the past 2 months .I had been in the UK until 3 months back with family as I was the main migrant with Tier 2 ICT visa until visa expired. Now my Tier 2 general dependent visa to join my wife is delayed for 2 months and I am suspecting it is du...

@Phillipe_b , I can only share your pain as I am sailing in the same boat. I submitted on 1st sep for Tier 2 dependent visa and 10 days later the status was deferred . I got a call from British High commission around that time asking if main migrant has travelled to UK and when I said yes probably t...

Thanks for sharing .But this is not UK Visa tracking per se. When it was checked in blue dart courier service the visa was already stamped and on its way to your house. As I have applied for dependent visa and crossed 14th working day I dont have any means to check VFS site on what stage my visa is ...

Just to add some more info from my side. Yesterday I received a call from British High commission and asked if the main migrant who got the visa has travelled to UK.My case was back to back application (Main migrant visa copy +dependent application submitted the day main migrant passport received). ...

Hi Manci, I am having a very similar situation where I want to know even after getting dependent visa will Border agency ask for tenancy agreement for the dependent if he/she is joining the main migrant in UK ?.Or can the dependent say initial hotel stay and then move into a flat along with main mig...