Applying from Pakistan: How to submit supporting documents?

[Two9A]

My wife is soon hoping to submit an application to join me in the UK on a spouse visa, but I'm having difficulty working out how the submission of supporting documents works. In a sticky on this board, it is stated:

...the British Embassy uses its service provider, Gerry’s FedEx for applicants to lodge certain documents(Applicants passport and biometrics only) in Islamabad, Mirpur, Lahore and Karachi.

The rest of the application and supporting document are now sent to UKBA offices in Sheffield England.

However, Gerry's state the following:

All documents submitted by customers applying for standard Tier 1, 2, 4 and 5 are scanned at the
Visa Application Centre and sent electronically to UKVI.
The new process allows customers to retain their supporting documents during the application
process. Apart from an applicant’s passport, all supporting documents will, where possible, be
handed back at the Visa Application Centre after they have been scanned.

Does the advice from Gerry's apply only to tiered visas? In other words, taking into account the reliability of the Pakistan postal service in my past interactions with it, will I need to fly out with the application pack for a spouse visa application?

[seagul]

I guess you are being mixed up with two different channels of applications, one for points based and other for settlement spouse visa. If your mean is spouse visa then the applicant need to enroll its biometrics details at its local VFS office while the sponsor in uk need to send the remaining documents straight to Sheffield.

[Two9A]

I do mean the spouse visa route, so that's good news that the documents can be sent from the UK.

One query: I happen to live not a terrible distance away from Sheffield, but I presume the documents must be posted to the Sheffield office and can't be hand-delivered?

[seagul]

I do mean the spouse visa route, so that's good news that the documents can be sent from the UK.

One query: I happen to live not a terrible distance away from Sheffield, but I presume the documents must be posted to the Sheffield office and can't be hand-delivered?

I think the address is p o box typed where finding the exact physical location is not possible. P o box address correspondence usually be kept at post office then be delivered.

[Komaluroosa]

My wife is soon hoping to submit an application to join me in the UK on a spouse visa, but I'm having difficulty working out how the submission of supporting documents works. In a sticky on this board, it is stated:

...the British Embassy uses its service provider, Gerry’s FedEx for applicants to lodge certain documents(Applicants passport and biometrics only) in Islamabad, Mirpur, Lahore and Karachi.

The rest of the application and supporting document are now sent to UKBA offices in Sheffield England.

However, Gerry's state the following:

All documents submitted by customers applying for standard Tier 1, 2, 4 and 5 are scanned at the
Visa Application Centre and sent electronically to UKVI.
The new process allows customers to retain their supporting documents during the application
process. Apart from an applicant’s passport, all supporting documents will, where possible, be
handed back at the Visa Application Centre after they have been scanned.

Does the advice from Gerry's apply only to tiered visas? In other words, taking into account the reliability of the Pakistan postal service in my past interactions with it, will I need to fly out with the application pack for a spouse visa application?

Hi i checked your timeline post. Actually I sent the documents to Sheffield on 28th may but haven't received them back yet, so i want to confirm that you have sent them the phptocopies of every document or u just have send them the original bundle?

[Two9A]

Hi i checked your timeline post. Actually I sent the documents to Sheffield on 28th may but haven't received them back yet, so i want to confirm that you have sent them the phptocopies of every document or u just have send them the original bundle?

I sent three bundles in my pack:

• Application form, Appendix 2, sponsor's passport copy, marriage cert/IELTS/TB test, payslips/letter of employment, land registry printout/property inspection report/council tax bill;
• Photos, call logs, WhatsApp logs, flight itineraries, remittance receipts;
• Photocopies of all of the above.

All papers came back stacked together in one batch.

[Komaluroosa]

Hi i checked your timeline post. Actually I sent the documents to Sheffield on 28th may but haven't received them back yet, so i want to confirm that you have sent them the phptocopies of every document or u just have send them the original bundle?

I sent three bundles in my pack:

• Application form, Appendix 2, sponsor's passport copy, marriage cert/IELTS/TB test, payslips/letter of employment, land registry printout/property inspection report/council tax bill;
• Photos, call logs, WhatsApp logs, flight itineraries, remittance receipts;
• Photocopies of all of the above.

All papers came back stacked together in one batch.

Oh alright