Priority Spouse Visa FALL Timeline (Oct-Dec)

If you don't mind me asking why were you refused? Also, do you need to wait a year before your next application if you are refused?

No, you can apply again as soon as you have the correct evidence ready to send.

I can confirm my visa was approved after a year of waiting since my first rejection (this was a brand new application).

I'm very happy, my earliest travel date was the 14th December and this is the day I travelled. I am now in England and very relieved the whole process is over.

I wish anyone else waiting good luck (I hope there's many more approvals before Xmas) and i'm thinking of ways we can help change the inhumane policy and broken process for this.

Congratulations! 

I can confirm my visa was approved after a year of waiting since my first rejection (this was a brand new application).

I'm very happy, my earliest travel date was the 14th December and this is the day I travelled. I am now in England and very relieved the whole process is over.

I wish anyone else waiting good luck (I hope there's many more approvals before Xmas) and i'm thinking of ways we can help change the inhumane policy and broken process for this.

Congratulations !


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If you don't mind me asking why were you refused? Also, do you need to wait a year before your next application if you are refused?

No, you can apply again immediately as long as you can correct the reasons for refusal right away.

But it will depend on why the visa was refused - if it’s because for example, you don’t meet the financial requirement and it turns out you won’t actually be able to meet it for a few more months, then you would need to wait those few months before applying again.

If however, it’s just a case of a missing or incorrect document, then you can reapply as soon as you have that document.


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Yaaay for exciting email. My docs got to NYC 1 day before yours. I'm still waiting on that email.

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  And their emails you've gotten we are taking with a grain of salt? Hang in there!

And their emails you've gotten we are taking with a grain of salt? Hang in there!

Yeah I'm still waiting on the 'official one'. My hubby is hopefully, he said this week we should hear something.

The helpline asked me if I got the IHS for my daughter (hoping this means she got approved)

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Yeah I'm still waiting on the 'official one'. My hubby is hopefully, he said this week we should hear something.

The helpline asked me if I got the IHS for my daughter (hoping this means she got approved)

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Crossing fingers and toes!x

Thanks for the answers guys!

So i got confirmation that they received my replacement documents last on Friday.

I'm really hoping that I hear back this week. My nerves are absolutely shot.

I am second guessing EVERYTHING!

someone please give me some reassuring words before I completely melt down

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Hi Guys,
             Just writing the things i learnt that might help with future applications.
You do not have to be married at the time of the application submission. I submitted my application online and then got married few weeks after.
I did not include a sponsor letter.
I did not include every watsapp dates or calls. Just a few from couple of months latest and old.

I also forgot to include couple of documents when my Mrs submitted all mine and hers at VFS. I sent the missing ones from here in UK.

Nevertheless good outcome for us and waiting for her to join me end of the year. Cannot wait

I'm really pleased for you that it has worked out -but PLEASE do NOT give this advice.  We have seen numerous visas refused as you MUST be married on the date of application for applications from the USA.  Maybe it's different for other countries.  But this is not grey area, it's black and white.  I'm glad you had a good result, but we pride ourselves in giving accurate information that will NOT lead to a refusal for our members.  I wouldn't be able to sleep at night if I knew someone followed this advice and lost thousands of pounds - and precious time - in the process.

Hi Guys,
             Just writing the things i learnt that might help with future applications.
You do not have to be married at the time of the application submission. I submitted my application online and then got married few weeks after.
I did not include a sponsor letter.
I did not include every watsapp dates or calls. Just a few from couple of months latest and old.

I also forgot to include couple of documents when my Mrs submitted all mine and hers at VFS. I sent the missing ones from here in UK.

Nevertheless good outcome for us and waiting for her to join me end of the year. Cannot wait

I'm really pleased for you that it has worked out -but PLEASE do NOT give this advice.  We have seen numerous visas refused as you MUST be married on the date of application for applications from the USA.  Maybe it's different for other countries.  But this is not grey area, it's black and white.  I'm glad you had a good result, but we pride ourselves in giving accurate information that will NOT lead to a refusal for our members.  I wouldn't be able to sleep at night if I knew someone followed this advice and lost thousands of pounds - and precious time - in the process.

Congratulations, but I second KFDancer's advice.

We have seen one member lose thousands of pounds in visa fees (for herself and 3 kids) because she applied before she was married... and all 4 visas were immediately refused. She should have applied for a fiance visa, but was incorrectly told by UKVI that a spousal visa was fine... it was NOT fine.

The only reason I can think of for your visa NOT being refused due to not being married on the application date, was that you WERE actually married by the time UKVI received the application, and you included your marriage certificate with the documents.

However, I would NOT recommend that anyone else does this, because there is no guarantee that any other applications will be approved... you may have just been extremely lucky that your visa was not refused, and it could have been a very different story.

We have also seen visas refused in the past for:
- not including a sponsor letter
- not including WhatsApp/other types of messages/calls covering the entire relationship (you don't need to send every message, but you should send something covering the whole length of the relationship - i.e. 1 or 2 for each week or month)

Sorry guys My apologies that wasn't my intention. Was more on what i found out from the process so decided to share. I've removed that message. Sorry again guys my bad

Hi all!
Good news APPROVAL!
For those that are curious on the timeline. Here’s mine: I believe from the day NY received my documents it was a total of 23BD.

Wishing everyone the best of luck

Happy holidays xo


Application: Spousal Settlement (PRIORITY)
Submitted Online Application: Nov 5th
Biometric Appointment: Nov 8th
Sent Application To NY: Nov 9th
NY Received Application: Nov 12th
Application Received Email: Nov 28th
Request for documents: Dec 11th
Decision Made Email:  Dec 13th
Docs Returned: Dec 14th
APPROVED!

Ok, so maybe my earlier post got lost in the void lol.

I'm literally stuck at work right now having an anxiety attack over my application.

I got the dreaded request for additional information email last week.

They needed:

My bank statements
My pay slips
My passport copy
Appendix 2

As I sent the originals and copies to NY because the instructions were unclear I had to get replacements.

I am really nervous about the bank statements... the originals are still at the scan hub. I got the bank to print me off the statements again but there was about 60-70 pages. I downloaded the pdf files of my statements from my internet bank. I sent these in with the letter the bank manager gave me stating authenticity. Will I be ok?

The pdfs are obviously identical to the printouts from the bank.

Please someone put my mind at rest. I've never been so stressed and nervous :'(

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Sorry guys My apologies that wasn't my intention. Was more on what i found out from the process so decided to share. I've removed that message. Sorry again guys my bad

Don't worry about it - you were only providing your experience .

We just try to make sure we don't give any advice that could potentially result in a refusal, and while your application did turn out to be fine in the end, we don't want there to be a situation where someone else does a similar thing based on what you wrote, and then they find their visa is refused because of it.