Hi all. My wife had her citizenship ceremony last week, she entered the UK on an Indian passport. We were unaware that the Indian passport had to be submitted alongside the passport application. We need to go to India in 3 weeks, we thought we could apply for the passport and travel to India on Indi...
https://www.gov.uk/tier-4-general-visa How long you can stay You can arrive in the UK before your course starts: up to 1 week before, if your course lasts 6 months or less up to 1 month before, if your course lasts more than 6 months How long you can stay depends on the kind of course you’re doing ...
Hi there, My course starts on the 23rd of September 2019 but I would like to come early as early as I can to get acclimatise and get to know the place and culture better before I start my course. I am applying for the visa next week, can I mention 25th of August which is 30 days to the course start ...
Thanks for your reply! that's great...I assume that you had no issues with your visa application, I might mention the same if there wouldn't be any issues.
Hi there, My sister is coming to the UK to do her masters and she will be staying with us in our home. There are two questions Do you have any family in the UK? (Required) This includes: immediate family - such as spouse, civil partner, parents or children grandparents or grandchildren your spouse o...
Hi all, My wife's visa is due for renewal mid-July. We have a need to travel the last week of June and be back on the first weekend of July, i.e a week before the expiry date. We can't miss out on the travel, will it be a problem if we come back and apply immediately? a week before the expiry? Would...
also to clarify the visa validity is for 180 days and multi-entry, I believe that is the standard one but they got the visa in hand only today with 3 days already gone out of the 180 days.
Thanks for coming back fast. Yes, they did state explicitly that they will be leaving to the UK on June 15th and stated to return back before the end of October. Mentioned end of October leaving some room not giving the impression that will exhaust the entire duration remaining in the UK. I called u...
Hi there, I got my parents visit visa approved and in the application I stated that their intended of date of travel would be mid June but the visa valid date is the date of approval, 15th may which means they have already lost a month and they can stay only for 5 months here instead of the entire 6...
Hi there, I am inviting my parents to visit the UK in this summer and their property document is not in English. Its a 15 pages sale deed document. Should this be translated page by page or a summary of the document is enough? I ask this because most of the pages just have seals and signature, the m...
ok thanks, but can I get blue card being employed in UK and being paid pounds? I will just be visiting EU countries for a period of a week or two at any given point of time.
you can read this https://www.immigrationboards.com/europe-immigration-forum/schengen-visa-remarks-means-t235545.html should be helpful Thanks Gokulatti, I probably may not risk going alone with this visa but I may apply for an individual business visa. With business visa can I do IT consulting for...
Was it issued under directive 2004/38 (i.e was it free of charge)? or was it issued separately as a schengen visa to you with a 3 year validity due to you being a family member of eea national. Sorry, I don't think I understand directive 2004/38. I didn't have to pay visa fee but had to pay a proce...
Hi there. I am an Indian national with UK spouse settlement visa(residence permit) living in UK married to a British Citizen. I have Schengen visa(Family member of EU/EEA citizen route) valid for the next three years with multiple entries. I am about to take a new job with an IT consultancy which wo...
Many thanks for your response. I am finding it hard to get appointment for the french embassy in this month. Is there any other way to get a quicker appointment, like a premium service or something? they don't have a number to call and enquire. Alternatively I have got an appointment for Norway VFS,...
Hi there, I am a British citizen and my wife is Indian citizen living with me in UK. I have some holidays to use up before end of this month and I see most of the schengen zone countries' mentioned processing time is minimum 15 days except for Italy, germany and Poland. I would like to understand fr...
Thanks for replying. I tried to contact UKVI with the same questions and now this time they have come back saying "no update found", wish they had more transparent process and tracking.
Hi there, I applied for my wife spouse settlement visa from Chennai, India on 08/08 and would like to understand the stages of processing. I recently made an enquiry online with the email form asking for status of the application and I got this response from them Thank you for contacting the United ...
Online application submitted on: 06/08 Application and documents submitted & biometrics enrolled at : Chennai VFS, 08/08 Application forwarded to British High Commission on : 09/08 (received by BHC) Enquiry made regarding application status: 30/08 (not accessed by ECO) Enquiry made regarding app...
Hi all, is this form really needed if I have done the online application? VAF4A- Personal details https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/274029/VAF4A.pdf , because this looks like the same information that were asked in the online application form. I got the NARIC ...
Which application centre in India has the fastest processing times? My wife's visa was earlier rejected and we have already waited for a long period and she applied from Chennai last time. I heard applying from Delhi is generally quicker, is it so? should we consider applying from a different centre...
