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Spouse visa, on a 5 or 10 year route?
« on: August 13, 2023, 01:33:45 PM »
Is there an easy way to figure out if your on a 5 or 10 year route? I don't want to  apply for ilr next year and get denied if I'm on the 10 year route, any help is appreciated
Online application submitted: July 5th 2019
Non priority Spouse visa
Biometrics & shipping recieved in New York: Aug 1st
Documents recieved Email: August 27th 2019
Decision email: October 11th 2019
Passport received: October 14th 2019
It's a yessss, landed back in England the 19th of November 2019
FLR-M non priority Application date June 20th 2022
Decision email July 24th 2022 Approved!


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Re: Spouse visa, on a 5 or 10 year route?
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2023, 01:45:55 PM »
If you still have the visa approval letter you received with your visa, it should tell you which route you are on.

The 5-year route is the standard route and is issued to applicants who meet all the spousal visa requirements... the majority of people will be on the 5-year route.

The 10-year route is an exceptional circumstances visa, which is granted outside the immigration rules when the applicant does not meet the financial requirement for a spousal visa, but is deemed to qualify to live in the UK under Article 8: Right to Family Life. It is usually only granted when the applicant has a UK citizen child living in the UK whose life would be severely disrupted if the visa was to be refused, meaning they would either have to be separated from their parent, or would have to leave the UK and move to another country in order to be with their parent.

If you are on the 10-year route, you should be well aware of this fact, as you would have been given special permission to be allowed into the UK on the 10-year route instead of your visa being outright refused because you didn't meet the requirements.


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