Priority Spouse Visa FALL Timeline (Oct-Dec)

Happy New Year and good luck to everyone who is still awaiting a decision!! We FINALLY mailed my application from the US on 29 December. We both feel like a huge weight has been lifted off your shoulders that has now been transferred to the pit of our stomachs as the waiting game begins. Aghhhh.

Figure things might take a couple of extra days to get my confirmation email with New Years Day thrown in the mix. Will keep you all posted.

Looks like I might be the first one in the "Priority Spouse Visa Jan-March WINTER Timeline" thread!!

As always thanks for all the advice and support.

NWKH

We're just coming in to the very best time of the year to apply, with waiting times at their lowest, historically. Best of luck. 

That doesn’t sound right.

You're right, it wasn't right, I'd mixed up the amounts paid to UKVI and VFS Global. The amounts I paid were:

UKVI: 1974 USD + 800 USD (Health Surcharge)
VFS: 912 USD (Priority + Return Courier)

Which I think might match up once the exchange rate is taken into account.

Also, if your application arrived in Sheffield on 10 November and you paid for priority, you should have received the visa by now... since priority applications processed in November were only taking about 15-20 working days and you’re at 32 working days now.

That's what we had thought as well, but we also thought it was still enough within the margin of deviation to not yet be concerned (the lawyer had us include mountains of evidence showing the genuine nature of our relationship, which we now know was mostly pointless, and probably has made the application take longer to process). What do you think we should do? I've been avoiding contacting UKVI to ask about what's going on because it's often described here as futile, but am beginning to think it may be worth making sure they haven't mislaid the application.

They won’t have mislaid the application - it’s probably just a slow time in Sheffield at the moment.

We haven’t had much movement with the applications lately. Even the two people who applied using the Gold Settlement Premium service at the end of November haven’t got their visas yet.


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Hello everyone,
I’m new to this forum.
I applied for the UK spouse visa on November 20 2017 with priority service ( was hoping to spend Christmas with my husband in the uk, but alas) and as of now, January 1 2018 still waiting on the decision
My situation is a bit different. I’m a Ukrainian National but a US resident ( green card holder) for almost 6 years. I submitted my uk Spouse visa application from Miami Florida.
I’ve read on this forum that average priority processing time for US applicants is a month or a bit more.
Do you think the fact that I’m a Ukrainian citizen has impacted the delay? But I’m a permanent US resident.
I understand there were Christmas holidays but it has been 3 months since I’ve seen my husband in flesh.. 😔
Has anybody heard of a similar situation and the outcome?
Thank you in advance.

Hello everyone,
I’m new to this forum.
I applied for the UK spouse visa on November 20 2017 with priority service ( was hoping to spend Christmas with my husband in the uk, but alas) and as of now, January 1 2018 still waiting on the decision
My situation is a bit different. I’m a Ukrainian National but a US resident ( green card holder) for almost 6 years. I submitted my uk Spouse visa application from Miami Florida.
I’ve read on this forum that average priority processing time for US applicants is a month or a bit more.
Do you think the fact that I’m a Ukrainian citizen has impacted the delay? But I’m a permanent US resident.
I understand there were Christmas holidays but it has been 3 months since I’ve seen my husband in flesh.. 😔
Has anybody heard of a similar situation and the outcome?
Thank you in advance.

Welcome.  Your application will be processed as a US application. 

Submitted the online application for Settlement (Marriage) Visa on Dec 21st. Completed biometrics in Hartford, CT on Dec 26th and mailed package on Dec. 27th with priority service. According to UPS, the package was received in Sheffield on Dec. 29th. Hopefully they will get back to work tomorrow! Now we wait...

Hopefully everyone had a good holiday and happy new year ..hopefully everyone has good news for the new year !!!!!🤞🏻💃😊

    Just reading a few of these posts from awhile ago on this thread.. a decision email doesn't tell you if you have been approved or not ? If income reading them right ? Do u actually have to wait for everything to be mailed back to you in order to know ?

Just reading a few of these posts from awhile ago on this thread.. a decision email doesn't tell you if you have been approved or not ? If income reading them right ? Do u actually have to wait for everything to be mailed back to you in order to know ?

Yep, have to wait to receive your package back from Sheffield. Fun times!!

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Yep, have to wait to receive your package back from Sheffield. Fun times!!

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Wow they really drag out the  anticipation  of epic  portion  lol

Wow they really drag out the  anticipation  of epic  portion  lol

Lol - yeah, they do.

- If your visa is processed in Sheffield (settlement visas), you don't get told the decision in the email.

- If your visa is processed in New York (all other visa types), you DO get told the decision in the email.

Just seems to be a difference in how the two offices operate. When settlement visas were still processed in New York (back before March 2013), you got the decision in the email, but Sheffield sends out different email wording.

How kind of them ... I wonder why they do it that way .. it's so twisted lol

 We'll crack on Sheffield...  can only hope everyone receives good news !!!!!


So it's looking like a month goes by the time they receive everything to the decision email .. is that correct for this time of year as well

How kind of them ... I wonder why they do it that way .. it's so twisted lol

 We'll crack on Sheffield...  can only hope everyone receives good news !!!!!


So it's looking like a month goes by the time they receive everything to the decision email .. is that correct for this time of year as well

It depends, but things have been slower in general this year. Last year people were getting decisions in less than a month in Jan/Feb and then things took a turn.

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So it's looking like a month goes by the time they receive everything to the decision email .. is that correct for this time of year as well

That seems to be a fair guess. It can always be different, but over the past couple of months it's been in the vicinity of 20 business days for spouse visas with the priority service.


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That seems to be a fair guess. It can always be different, but over the past couple of months it's been in the vicinity of 20 business days for spouse visas with the priority service.


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It has been 27 business days for me so far and counting..
The package was delivered to Sheffield November 22 2017. Hasn’t had any response yet. Not even confirmation email that they got my documents.

It has been 27 business days for me so far and counting..
The package was delivered to Sheffield November 22 2017. Hasn’t had any response yet. Not even confirmation email that they got my documents.

We're in the same boat, my wife and I didn't get an email but know the package was delivered. I hope they process yours and ours soon.