1. Just double checking.....If I am meeting the financial requirements on just cash savings....all I fill out on page 34 is as Category D-Cash savings? and just ignore everything else?
Yeah, you answer 7.1 and 7.2 on pages 26 and 27 and then skip to page 34.
I think there may be a mistake on the form where there should be a box to tick for Category D on page 27/28, but they seem to have missed it off!
2. Page 47 asks if I had fingerprints taken on the first visa application....I have no idea. Since all they send back is the passport, I can't remember if I had them taken or not. I just beat the BRP and NHS new rules that I think came in April 2015 (my visa was March 2015). I was just going to put no......
Yes, you did have fingerprints taken, because you cannot get a visa without having them done (unless you're exempt).
This was your biometrics appointment that you attended in the US before you mailed your documents to Sheffield.
So, you answer as follows:
9.12 - Yes
9.13 - date of your biometrics appointment in the US
9.14 - address of the USCIS Application Support Center where you gave biometrics
9.15 - address of UKVI Sheffield where your visa was processed
3. Page 53 asks how long I have lived in the UK. Do they want just this time (2 years, 6 months) .....or all the time I have spent here 1980-88, 2004-2011, 2015-2017...16+ years?
I think probably all of the time you've spent here, because then it gives you space to put your absences of over 6 months.