whats the best return service to use for my spousal visa application?

what is the best (fastest) prepaid return service i can purchase for the return of my documents from sheffield? is it something i can purchase at ups? Im a little lost here.. i also see the courier service you can purchase online. what is the best most fastest way to receive my return documents and visa

thank you!

Well, the VFS Global shipping option is pre-paid, fixed-price UPS shipping, it's just that it is offered through the VFS website instead of the UPS website. Depending on how large/heavy your package, it could be cheaper to buy the VFS shipping, or you might find it's more expensive.

- VFS offers either just the return courier service back from Sheffield, so it's up to you to get it to Sheffield, or you can do return shipping.

- You can use UPS or DHL yourself, but not FedEx, as Sheffield won't return by FedEx (they had some issues with their return waybills last year).

- Don't use USPS though as it takes longer, isn't tracked once it leaves the US and often packages will get stuck in customs, possibly for weeks, or may never arrive.

So, you have a few options:

1) Ship the package to Sheffield yourself with UPS or DHL, then use VFS Global for return shipping ($134 per application)

2) Pay for both outbound and return shipping with VFS ($216 per application). If you do this, you will need to go to a UPS store to get a UPS envelope for the documents to be mailed in.

3) Don't use VFS and just ship it yourself both ways using either UPS or DHL. You include your online UPS/DHL account number (or an international waybill create on the UPS/DHL website) with your package so they can charge your account for the return shipping when they send it back.

 Thank you  Ksand ! Do you know what option most people use when they are also purchasing priority service?

Thank you  Ksand ! Do you know what option most people use when they are also purchasing priority service?

Don't know, I'm afraid - the VFS Global shipping has only been available for a few weeks, so people are only just trying it out now.

It shouldn't make any difference to the shipping choice whether you pay for priority or not. The only thing that priority does is get a UKVI employee at Sheffield to move your application to the front of the queue after it has arrived. How you ship it has no bearing on this.

1) Ship the package to Sheffield yourself with UPS or DHL, then use VFS Global for return shipping ($134 per application)

This is what we did.   The price to ship to the UK with UPS was about $85 so substantially cheaper than VFS (no surprise) but maybe not significant in the overall scheme of things.   Note UPS will ask for a phone number for UKVI in Sheffield so have a google before going to UPS.

We used VFS for return shipping because we didn't want any hold ups with UKVI "unable to find" the UPS account number we had clearly given them, and also because we sold our house while the visa was being processed and had a new address (because the visa processing took a lot longer than expected - lesson learned to pay priority during summer).

1) Ship the package to Sheffield yourself with UPS or DHL, then use VFS Global for return shipping ($134 per application)

This is what we did.   The price to ship to the UK with UPS was about $85 so substantially cheaper than VFS (no surprise) but maybe not significant in the overall scheme of things.   Note UPS will ask for a phone number for UKVI in Sheffield so have a google before going to UPS.

We used VFS for return shipping because we didn't want any hold ups with UKVI "unable to find" the UPS account number we had clearly given them, and also because we sold our house while the visa was being processed and had a new address (because the visa processing took a lot longer than expected - lesson learned to pay priority during summer).

Thank you so much !:)