What type of visa, leave to enter or remain or other permission do you have to be in the uk? We’ve selected family here - but should that be settlement?
This question is confusing on the form because a family visa IS a settlement visa... they are the same thing! So I have no idea why they have both options.
I think most people have ticked ‘Family’.
For trips where we’ve left and returned to the UK on the same day, do we need to declare them? It comes up with an error when we’ve tried to enter them so I’m assuming not.
Technically, I think you should declare them because you left the U.K., but if it won’t accept the dates, then you can’t enter them.
I think what I would do is include a note in a cover letter and a list of those trips on a separate sheet of paper.
I (the sponsor) have been employed by the same company for over 5 years now and have held 3 different roles. Each of which has had a separate contract. I started my current role on 15 July 2019.
For the question:
-when did the current employment begin? do I put the date I started working for the company, or the date I started my current role?
Date you started working for the company 5 years ago.
- annual income? Do I put my current wage, or the wage I was earning in my previous role (which was put on my July payslip)?
Current wage.
If you are salaried, they will use your lowest payslip to calculate the income requirement, so if one of the payslips has the old pay on it, they will use your old salary... but your current and future earnings will be the new wage (and the employer letter will state your new, current wage and the date you started earning it)
- what do they earn? My income in both roles didn’t vary month to month as I’m a salaried employee (other than when my role changed, so my July payslip is different to the subsequent ones) - do I say that I was earning the same continuously above the requirement, or not the same continuously above the requirement?
Same amount continuously above the requirement... if you don’t put this, the form will tell you to provide 12 months of payslips and bank statements, but that’s incorrect.
When it asks about the living arrangements you have it gives the options, I own the property, I rent the property or I have a different arrangement. In our case I (the sponsor) own the property - but to me the question is framed about whether the applicant owns (which he doesn’t). In anyone else’s experience do you know if they mean the applicant or the sponsor own - or whether we should say it’s a different arrangement?
It’s about you collectively as a couple. They want to know if the house is owned by one of you, rented by both of you, or neither (I.e. you live with family or friends who own the house).
So you tick ‘I own the property’.
- letter from employer confirming length of sponsors employment, salary, type and length of employment. Here I’ve also asked them to explain my change in role. However, they’ve said that before they’ll issue the letter they need to have an address to direct it to - has anyone else has this, and what address did you tell your work to use?
The application does not get sent anywhere because you upload the documents now, so I’m not sure if there is even an address they can put.
Maybe Sheffield? Though that’s where the initial spousal visa is processed.
UK Visas & Immigration,
Vulcan House,
6 Millsands,
Sheffield,
S3 8NU
Not sure what other people have put though.
- the contracts for all three roles I’ve had at the organisation since I started working there
Contracts are optional so you don’t need to include these.
If you do want to send a contract. you only need the most recent one for your current role.
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