Finally all of my fiance visa info together

Here is what I have:

Applicant:
Passport
One passport-sized color photograph
Certified copy of my birth certificate
Evidence of our relationship:
  - Email exchanges
  - 30 photographs of us
  - 2 cards
  - Several letters

Sponsor:
Letter of support and acknowledgment of our relationship
Email exchanges
Certified copy of letter from registry office
Certified copy of his passport
Tenancy agreement - showing his tenancy runs to the end of November
Letter from lettings agency confirming their agreement of extending our tenancy and to the applicant living there.

Business finances:
Self assessments from 2006-2007
Self assessments from 2007-2008
2008-2009
  - Summary of business income and expenditure
  - Certified copies of business account bank statements
2009-2010
  - Summary of business income and expenditure for first 7 months, this includes projections of what he expects to make at the end of financial year
  - Certified copies of business accounts for past 6 months
  - Copies of invoices for this year to fate

Personal finances:
Bank statements from the past 6 months

I am about to complete my application online and receive a biometrics appointment. Can anyone tell me the process of this? Do I receive information from my biometrics that I include in the package I send to NY? Or do they send them directly to the NY consulate?

Any advice?

Your list looks good. You're a bit overkill on the photos/letters/emails I'd only send a couple and a screenshot of your email inbox. But it's your app you decide.

As far as the biometrics, it prompts you to schedule them online when you finish, pay and submit the application. You will be prompted to print the biometrics appointment page, you take that with you when you go to the bios and they stamp it and then you include that page in your package to your expeditor (if you're using one) or when you send your information to the Consulate.

The data from your bios are submitted electronically from the ASC to the Consulate there is nothing further from the bios that you will do other than to send the stamped page in with your stuff.

Your list looks good. You're a bit overkill on the photos/letters/emails I'd only send a couple and a screenshot of your email inbox. But it's your app you decide.

Hah - that's what my fiance said! Funny. I already have the photos included - I just wanted to show our different hair lengths and us looking different. But maybe I'll take out some of the letters.

As far as the biometrics, it prompts you to schedule them online when you finish, pay and submit the application. You will be prompted to print the biometrics appointment page, you take that with you when you go to the bios and they stamp it and then you include that page in your package to your expeditor (if you're using one) or when you send your information to the Consulate.

The data from your bios are submitted electronically from the ASC to the Consulate there is nothing further from the bios that you will do other than to send the stamped page in with your stuff.

I got ya. I didn't know how that worked. Thanks for clarifying.

So I'm filling out my application and it asks what type of settlement visa I am applying for. Should I say unmarried partner? They have a option for Proposed civil partnership - which I know is for same-sex relationships. So I guess I am an unmarried partner?

I just thought that that was a different visa all together where you had to be living together for 2 years.

If you're doing a fiance application then it's 'Settlement' then 'Marriage', if you're doing the Unmarried Partner application based on living together for 2 years then it's 'Settlement' then 'Unmarried Partner'.

Even if I'm not married? I guess my purpose for going over would be to get married though, huh.

Even if I'm not married? I guess my purpose for going over would be to get married though, huh.

Yeah, especially since there are other options for a Husband or a Wife... 

 

I can't find the place of issue on my passport? I think it was Washington as they are the issuing authority? Would this be the same?

I can't find the place of issue on my passport? I think it was Washington as they are the issuing authority? Would this be the same?

It really doesn't matter. My first passport was issued in San Francisco and it stated it on the details page. My renewal was processed through Baltimore and I only knew that because it was the return address on the package when it arrived. So you can put Washington DC as it really doesn't matter.

The issuing authority is the US State Department.

So the authority is US State Department? And not Washington Passport Agency like it says on my passport?

So the authority is US State Department? And not Washington Passport Agency like it says on my passport?

If your's says Washington Passport Agency then put that. Both mine (issued in the US in March 08) & my daughters (applied for in London in September 08) both say United States Department of State, I made the assumption that all were the same. However my old passport (from 1998) says San Francisco Passport Agency.

When they ask if you have made an application to the Home Office to remain in the UK in the last 10 years?

Does this mean on dependent visas? I was on my step-fathers work visa as a dependent and his work did all of this for us. So I'm not sure what to put. Probably no?

Was the visa you were on applied for while you were in the US or the UK? Because it says 'to remain' in the UK not 'to enter' the UK. If there was an application made while you were IN the UK then the answer is yes. If the application was done while you were in the US to GO to the UK then the answer is no.

Here is what I have:

Applicant:
Passport
One passport-sized color photograph
Certified copy of my birth certificate

You are submitting your passport --- you don't need to send a certified copy of your birth certificate.

No, I was in the UK, so I need to go back and change that.

Also for this application, when it asks me if I have ever traveled outside your country of residence, including to the UK, in the last 10 years...do they want quick short answers, or should I write to explain it. I noticed you can't press enter to go down the to next line, so not sure how I will separate these out.

Okay about my birth certificate. Thought they needed both, but if they don't, I won't bother including it.

No, I was in the UK, so I need to go back and change that.

Also for this application, when it asks me if I have ever traveled outside your country of residence, including to the UK, in the last 10 years...do they want quick short answers, or should I write to explain it. I noticed you can't press enter to go down the to next line, so not sure how I will separate these out.

Okay about my birth certificate. Thought they needed both, but if they don't, I won't bother including it.

You have very limited space, dates & places is pretty much it seperate each different trip with a ';' (semi-colon). You can include a cover letter stating in more detail if you need to.