Hi Vinny, Yes the court order states "with the view that Child was always in custody of mother, and taking into account welfare of the child we grant the guardianship to mother". The petition to court was specifically to allow the child to join mother and myself in UK , It also mentions my...

Yes Thank you. I did follow all the guidelines of documents referred in that page and submitted a dozen different document so prove sole responsibility. I believe ECO was not questioning the Sole responsibility in refusal letter. In our initial application we mentioned we have Sole custody ( but we ...

I Am British Citizen . End of 2016 My wife and Step son (7 yrs) from India applied for settlement dependent Visa , She had custody of the child from her divorce document and we submitted all proofs required. Her Visa was granted and Step son's rejected stating we did not show any document for Sole c...

Thanks, Thats very helpful. We will go ahead and pay application fee now.

thanks for quick response CR001 , you mean we should only choose spouse settlement visa category and should not show me as sponsor? i have prepared SU07 and covering letters in this respect and was thinking about adding my name as the sponsor for my step son. If my details are not included whose nam...

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We are in same dilemma for my step son application. Not sure what to do or if we are choosing a wrong category. please share here if you found a way.

Hi Thanks. We did look through all the materials including above and understood that it is not a straight forward application. We hope to be able to convince ECO about sole responsibility as my wife is single daughter and looked after her son all his life. Now back to my original question , when we ...

Hi Yes it appears both on Birth certificate as well as passport. He was born when they were married and right after his birth they got mutual divorced ( 4.5 years ago) and court awarded Sole custody to her. He was living with her till now with no intervention from his bio-father. We have all the cou...

Hi, She has sole custody. Also we have prepared lot of documentation to support Sole responsibility as well. letters from schools, doctors, councillor, every where she registered as single parent. and there is an affidavit with magistrate to get my step sons passport without noc from biological fath...

We're trying to apply for dependent wife (of a british citizen ) for settlement visa in chennai India. This is application for my wife and step son(6 yrs old). They never visited uk before. While submitting the online application we chose "Child or Other Dependant of Settled Person" as cat...

My wife arrived in uk sep - 2009 as my work permit dependent. In 2011 we had to change the visa to ICT and my wife got ICT dependent visa for 2 years which ended on Jan 2013. Last year my wife had to leave to India for delivery of our child around 2012 september. This year december i will be eligibl...