How many days you intend to visit India? If it is 30 days or so, surrender Indian passport, get e-visa and go there. After returning, apply for OCI in UK. If your stay is 3 months or more, then you can take long term visa and apply for OCI in india. If you can wait, get OCI work first and then go t...

Maintenance from sponsor has to be certified by sponsor. If you use funds from mother etc that won't count as the same. Above a you need to be sure whether you are claiming points on your own basis or your sponsor is certifying your maintenance. I have you the link with document which tells you exac...

srivisaN wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 08, 2018 2:29 pm

Can anyone apply for OCI in India, being on e-Visa (Visitor Visa). Is there anyone who has done that in the past ?

Yes my friends have, i will be in a few months time and would post my experience.

You may also check here:

http://www.mea.gov.in/oci-related-matters.htm

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... s-guide-8a

Check the above and discuss with your employer, hope it helps.

I hope you are aware as long as you are not required to travel in and out of UK there is no need to apply for a indian passport and get a visa stamped, you may save a lot of money and hassle that way. In case you do wish to travel get an indian passport first and then you may apply for T2 D visa in ...

I think you are confusing yourself with surrender of indian passport and OCI. DO NOT travel on Indian passport after getting your British Passport, as not only would you encounter a penalty when you surrender your passport, but your indian passport as well might be seized at the airport on the way b...

Maintenance is certified by the employer on the CoS. A Copy of the CoS and letter from employer certifying the same is what you need to provide. As you suggest he has already mentioned on your offer letter you can use that as the letter along with CoS if the last line under "Migrant's employmen...

Since this is your application and your bank statments HO are requesting your consent to conduct checks on your account.

Consent from partner is not required. Also no need to send her Bank Statements.

If however, the bank account is joined then consent is required.

Since, you applied only yesterday, you may write to them explaining the mistake. Refer it your application number.

I do believe they would accept the same.

harps9191 wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 06, 2018 11:31 am

so do i count the 5 year period from the approval date on the letter or issue date on BRP?

Date of Approval in your case 11/09/2013

harps9191 wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 06, 2018 11:31 am

Have any of you got first hand experience regarding this issue?

yes on twice for myself and my wife at Tier 2 extension and ILR stage

Even if you continue with maiden name (old name) on CoS and married name (new name) on passport there are no issues. When it comes to next application whether you can show you changed name after being granted previous visa. My wife's case was similar, right after arriving to UK with old name on Cos ...

Thanks - I am using council tax bills, but with the requirement to have correspondence from various sources, I thought tenancy agreement could be a good additional one. Did you actually use a printed digital version without physical signatures? Thanks so much Yes mine were digitally signed as well,...

ashishkm wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 05, 2018 11:45 am

Thanks a lot
I got my VISA approved.

Congratulations!

I have submitted HSBC statements printed in branch for my ILR application at Solihull PSC back in 2016. No questions were asked.

I used the same without any issues, you could also use council tax bills.

"The period between entry clearance being issued and the applicant entering the UK may be counted toward the qualifying period. Any absences between the date of issue and entry to the UK are considered an allowable absence. This period will count towards the 180 days allowable absence in the co...

If you don't mind I'm just curious to know if you can comfortably apply with 28 days to completing 5 years, why would you like to use the second option i.e., apply before that, unless it's massively going to reduce time, also, most of the examples I read were running out of visa and hence sought of ...

In that case it's pretty loud and clear from recent approvals it's working.

Those applications are all dependent applications.

As long as it's within 10 working days its all in order, even if it's 10th day.

Beyond that, if you feel you didn't get priority treatment you can always raise a complaint.

Best is to continue as PBS dependent until she completes 5 years and then apply.

We personally submitted all relevant documents covering full period and I suppose you need to as ILR and tier 1 are different. You don't need to show cohabitation at visa stage however, starting from ILR onwards your wife won't be a dependent in this country rather own her status by herself. Short a...

Since I already have Tier 2 general visa, my dependent still need to show funds? Did you have to satisfy maintenance when you last got your T2 if yes she has to, if no then no. It's an AND condition unless the main applicant already had leave in a Tier 2 category and when applying for their most re...

Check if the payment has gone through with your bank, if it has kindly contact HO at

UK Visas and Immigration contact centre
Telephone: 0300 123 2241
Monday to Thursday, 9am to 4:45pm
Friday, 9am to 4:30pm

If you paid by a VISA card it could also be linked to eeurope wide outage of visa services.

Do they have to show maintenance funds (for 90 days) (For extension, when they apply without main applicant)? yes Does my wife need to pass English language test? (For extension) No I suggest you go through the following thoroughly. Lot of your questions would be answered. https://www.gov.uk/govern...