Anyone Know about 3rd Option to Submit Supporting Docs in UK (by UK sponsor)?

On VFSglobal, it states:

If you are applying for a settlement visa, your sponsor or an agent can submit supporting documents in the UK for a fee of £75 inclusive of taxes per application payable in cash or with a debit card. If you do not want to submit any documents as part of your visa application, please upload your checklist or a blank document. If nothing is uploaded, you will automatically be charged the assisted scan fee.

Your sponsor or an agent can submit documents at any of the following locations in the UK.

London: 66 Wilson Street, London, EC2A 2BT Birmingham: 5 -14 South Road, Smethwick, Birmingham, B67 7BN Belfast: Merrion Business Centre, First Floor 58, Howard Street, Belfast, BT1 6PJ Leicester: C/O Peepul's Centre, Orchardson Avenue, Leicester, L E4 6DP Cardiff: Temple Court – 13A Cathedral Road, Cardiff CF11 9H Manchester: 50 Devonshire Street North, Manchester, M12 6JH Edinburgh: 1 Rennie’s Isle, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 6QT Liverpool: SUITE NO 207,Second Floor, Graeme House, Derby Square, Liverpool, L2 7ZH Bradford: Skipton Chamber 16-18 North Parade, Bradford, BD13HT

Your sponsor should bring a copy of your passport, along with your document checklist if you have applied via Access UK, or the first page of your visa application form if you have applied via visa4uk.

Your sponsor should also provide clear and legible photocopy of all supporting documents, these will be scanned and handed back at the time of their visit. All photocopies should be A4 size. Any documents which are smaller or larger than A4 size be photocopied onto A4 sized paper. Torn, crumpled or heavily creased documents cannot be scanned and therefore should be photocopied onto A4 sized paper before they are submitted. Documents should not be laminated.

Neither VFS Global nor UK Visas and Immigration shall be liable in any way for any direct or indirect loss, costs or expenses arising from delay to a visa application processing or a rejection of a visa application because of a failure by the customer to comply with these self-upload terms of use.

Anyone know about going with the option of UK sponsor taking all supporting docs into one of the walk-in centres instead of wife (US) shipping them to NYC HUB?

I think you're the first one here to be experiencing this - it sounds like a brand-new thing!

Sounds very much like you have to take the entire pack of documents that would be submitted along to the location, and get them to scan it in, OR you scan them in as per some of the other applications on here, and that suffices.

I know that this service has been available to applicants from other countries for a while but was not for applicants from the US.

Can you link to the information you have quoted please?

Here is a direct link:

https://www.vfsglobal.co.uk/us/en/news/new-address-for-documentation-when-applying-for-a-uk-settlement-visa

It also said it after we made our biometrics appointment online too. It was our next thing to do and contained all of the same exact information. Yes, it is for US now apparently. I'm just really surprised no one here knows anything about this 

BTW, we did pay for priority. The main thing that confused us is: do we have wife (in US) ship off her passport, application, and biometrics sheet RIGHT AFTER biometrics appointment and at the same time UK sponsor (husband) takes all other supporting docs into a walk-in centre to get scanned?

OR, does wife send passport, application, and biometrics sheet to husband in UK and he takes in EVERYTHING to a centre in UK for scanning.

Here is a direct link:

https://www.vfsglobal.co.uk/us/en/news/new-address-for-documentation-when-applying-for-a-uk-settlement-visa

It also said it after we made our biometrics appointment online too. It was our next thing to do and contained all of the same exact information. Yes, it is for US now apparently. I'm just really surprised no one here knows anything about this 

Thanks for providing the link.

If it hadn't been for the fact that you say this information now appears during the application process I would have said that it didn't apply to US applicants as it was posted in the generic news section but if that indeed is the case then it looks like you do now have that option.

The reason we don't know about it is that we do not have access to the online application and you are the first one to point it out. As has been mentioned, it appears that this has happened very recently.

Yes, it appears so. No problem, you're welcome.

Does the wife in US and husband in UK need to submit birth certificates at any point in time?

Does the wife in US and husband in UK need to submit birth certificates at any point in time?

No. Passports cover it.

OK, thank you

Anyone know how many times (and for how long) one can delay their biometric appointment and can it be changed 2 or 3 days prior to the actual appointment made?