Hi All,
I flew out of UK last friday (no hand baggage, just my passport + Indian PIO card + e-ticket) and came back this evening to UK, with my wife who has her spouse/settlement visa) and our daughter (who is a British citizen with British passport).
On our return back to UK, we went through the "Other passports" line and explained myself and my daughter were British citizens and my wife was returning to UK to resume her marraige visa residency and i wanted to queue up in Other passports line so i can be with my wife and daughter.
The Officer said it was OK, looked at her current visa (which runs upto next April) and said she was fine to get into the country. No additional questions asked. She put the regular stamp detailing the date of her return to UK to resume her residency.
We explained she (my wife) was out of the UK for about 5.5 months for our baby delivery in India and upon that explanation, she said that was fine and my wife was OK to get into the country
:-)
I did have ample documentation though in hand which we brought from India, like letter from doctor advising my new born daughter to travel after 3 months of her brith, my detailed covering letter and my wife's too, when we applied for our daughter's British passport in India, and other documents to prove my wife was in constatnt contact with me and vice-versa, plus documents like all of my 4 recent visits to India in the past 5.5 months (my boarding pass during all these Indian visits, stamps of Indian immigration in my British passport etc, when i visited my wife and family, family photographs taken during these vists, etc, which would adequately prove our marraige and constant touch between us and our family.
The Officer just wanted to confirm our daughter's face with her British passport ID page photo and she said she was happy and that's all to it!
:-)
Now we will accumulate all of these documents and the ones i have documented and collected here in the UK for these 5.5 months of her reisdence in India, plus all of the items of evidence that SET (M) requires (joint biils, bank statements etc - i have detailed these in one other thread when i replied to John's question about the evidence i was accumulating for ILR for my wife next year).
I guess armed with all these evidence docuemnts, the next year's ILR for my wife should be a breeze!
regards.