Hi Can anyone please recommend any reputable companies/individual which will translate my daughter's Japanese birth certificate? This forms part of the process to apply for a UK passport. I also understand that they have to be a member of a recognised professional translation body. I've obviously go...

Hi gang I'm a British citizen and I've just recently got married to a Japanese woman with a fiance visa and now we want to embark on changing her immigration status. What is the process for doing this? Furthermore, do we also need to register our marriage in Japan? I know we have to complete a marri...

Good morning My Japanese fiance is just about to hand in the completed application to the British embassy in Tokyo but there were 3 outstanding queries that we had. Q1. She has been living back in Japan since July after one year of study in the UK and her current student visa for the UK doesn't expi...

Good afternoon I will be visiting a solicitor soon to get my copies of my passport and bank statements signed. As the solicitor charges £5 per signature will I have to get all the pages of the passport and the bank statements signed? With the passport it will probably be only the photo page that ne...

there is no charge - wahey!

Good afternoon everyone,

Re: the accommodation section of the fiance visa application form.

I'm a home owner and they are asking for a letter from my bank proving I have a mortgage.

Will my mortgage statement suffice or do I have to contact my bank and ask for what will be an expensive letter?

Thanks again people.

I think the fiance visa is the way to go, I have to propose to her now.

Can anyone give a rough estimate on how long the British embassy in Tokyo could take in issuing the visa?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks very much, I was going around in circles trying to find it

Hi

Can someone please post the link to the Fiance visa application form. I've looked all over the
http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/applyi ... tionforms/

website but I can't find it.

Thank you.

Thank you for your reply.

Does anyone else have some advice or comments?

Thanks in advance

Hi I've seen some of the assistance you've given out on this forum and I think it's amazing - so I'm hoping you might assist me in this minefield. Background info - I'm a British citizen living in London, who is a homeowner and a manager in a media company. I've been in a relationship with my Japane...