Visit visa - Is an accommodation report important?

[KM0170]

Hi everyone, hope you are well!

Quite a straightforward question hopefully. My wife who is here on a spouse visa and has had her ILR for a few years wants to invite her mother from Pakistan to visit.

Should we be filling out the application on behalf of my wife's mother or as my wife or will it not make much difference?

Thank you

[CR001]

The form is completed as the applicant, ie the person applying for the visa

[AmazonianX]

Hi everyone, hope you are well!

Quite a straightforward question hopefully. My wife who is here on a spouse visa and has had her ILR for a few years wants to invite her mother from Pakistan to visit.

Should we be filling out the application on behalf of my wife's mother or as my wife or will it not make much difference?

Thank you

It does make a lot of difference. Fill the application as your wife's mother.

[KM0170]

Thank you!!!

[KM0170]

Hi everyone,

A couple of questions arose while completing the form - not sure if I should make a new thread or put it on here, let me know please.

1/ My wife's passport has her unmarried name on it. After marriage, her surname changed. Should we be using the name on the passport (same as that on the BRP) throughout the application and letters etc?

2/ Should we include any nephews and nieces she has here in the UK under the "Do you have any family in the UK?" section?

3/ There is a section "Will you be staying anywhere else in the UK?". Currently, have this down as no but I'm thinking to change this to yes as she will likely visit and stay with her other relatives that she has here.

Thank you!

[lolo2]

1. It is wise to use her passport and BRP containing the same information. These two are supporting documents.

2. This question is related to your mother in law (the applicant), not your wife, so she needs to respond accordingly.

3. This is related to her main accommodation whilst in the UK. You don't need to count every single place she will visit. A no is enough.

Remember that this form needs to be filled out as the applicant, despite anyone else is doing so.

I did this for my mother just recently and I clearly remember there is one question at the beginning asking who is filling out the form, the applicant or someone else. After you respond that, the form guides you through the rest of the process.

[KM0170]

Thanks.

1/ Okay we'll use my wife's name as it appears on her passport.

2/ Yes I did mean my mother in law sorry for this section sorry.

3/ We will put down a no here. Thanks

Thanks for all your help!

[KM0170]

Hi everyone

As part of the documents for a visit visa application for my mother-in-law we are getting a copy of the land registry. This is in the original foreign language (Urdu) and we have asked if the document can be provided in English and are being told it cannot. Will this suffice or do we need to get it translated? If we need to get it translated can we do this ourselves or will this need to be done by a specific company or something?

Thank you!

[CR001]

Hi everyone

As part of the documents for a visit visa application for my mother-in-law we are getting a copy of the land registry. This is in the original foreign language (Urdu) and we have asked if the document can be provided in English and are being told it cannot. Will this suffice or do we need to get it translated? If we need to get it translated can we do this ourselves or will this need to be done by a specific company or something?

Thank you!

1. Topics merged.

2. Any documents that are not in English must be translated by an official translator or government authority. So no, you cannot simply do it yourselves.

[KM0170]

Thanks!

We had an accomodation report done in about 2014 as part of my wife's initial spouse visa application. Is it okay to reuse this? There is still enough room for mother in law to visit.

Thanks

[Ticktack]

Thanks!

We had an accomodation report done in about 2014 as part of my wife's initial spouse visa application. Is it okay to reuse this? There is still enough room for mother in law to visit.

Thanks

Accommodation report is not a requirement. It can neither influence positively or negatively your visa application.

[KM0170]

Hi there

I have been in touch with a lawyer who has advised me to get an accommodation report and include this as part of a visit visa application. However how necessary/important is this? It just looks like it might be a bit of a hassle/take time to get one so wonder what impact it will have if we don't include this.

Thanks

[CR001]

Topics merged. You were already advised last year it is not required.

[AmazonianX]

Hi there

I have been in touch with a lawyer who has advised me to get an accommodation report and include this as part of a visit visa application. However how necessary/important is this? It just looks like it might be a bit of a hassle/take time to get one so wonder what impact it will have if we don't include this.

Thanks

Of no impact as you were previously informed.

[vinny]

Accommodation report is not a requirement. It can neither influence positively or negatively your visa application.

There’s a negative impact, if it’s false.

[Ticktack]

Accommodation report is not a requirement. It can neither influence positively or negatively your visa application.

There’s a negative impact, if it’s false.

Every document has a negative impact if it's false. They automatically trigger a 10 year ban to the UK. Fake bank statements, fake jobs or letter of employment et al.

Your link was an interesting read though. Not sure why they pulled that stunt as the mother had been to the UK multiple times already. Visa would have been approved with minimal documents regardless. It was a bad judgement from the Son of the applicant.

[KM0170]

Thanks for all the help so far.

I've got another question. We are having difficulties getting a marriage certificate for my mother-in-law to show she got married. Her husband passed away several years ago. We have other documents for example a family registration certificate which shows the father and mother of a particular child along with siblings. Also on my mother in laws national ID card and passport, it has a section for husband's name and this is filled in. Also, we have some of the children whose ID cards have father's name.

I'd like your thoughts on if we have enough and if a marriage certificate is needed please? We have already started the process to try and get one but am unsure how successful and how long this will take.

Please help.

Thank you!

[AmazonianX]

Thanks for all the help so far.

I've got another question. We are having difficulties getting a marriage certificate for my mother-in-law to show she got married. Her husband passed away several years ago. We have other documents for example a family registration certificate which shows the father and mother of a particular child along with siblings. Also on my mother in laws national ID card and passport, it has a section for husband's name and this is filled in. Also, we have some of the children whose ID cards have father's name.

I'd like your thoughts on if we have enough and if a marriage certificate is needed please? We have already started the process to try and get one but am unsure how successful and how long this will take.

Please help.

Thank you!

Marriage certificate is not needed.

[Ticktack]

Thanks for all the help so far.

I've got another question. We are having difficulties getting a marriage certificate for my mother-in-law to show she got married. Her husband passed away several years ago. We have other documents for example a family registration certificate which shows the father and mother of a particular child along with siblings. Also on my mother in laws national ID card and passport, it has a section for husband's name and this is filled in. Also, we have some of the children whose ID cards have father's name.

I'd like your thoughts on if we have enough and if a marriage certificate is needed please? We have already started the process to try and get one but am unsure how successful and how long this will take.

Please help.

Thank you!

There's no need spamming them with irrelevant docs. What that creates eventually is a vortex where the significant documents are then missed.
If she was travelling with her spouse and you wanted to relate them together, then you can use marriage cert. This isn't the case at this point. Let your uploaded documents be pointing in a certain direction, or be signalling something.
Not just random documents.

She doesn't need national ID (passport is OK), birth certificate, marriage certificate, death certificate and any other certificate you can think of.

Money and proof of funds is always the key thing. Funds show stability and reason to always go back home. Everything else is just icing on the cake.

[KM0170]

Thank you all for your help and advice