I'm sorry, I think I was not clear at all! I apologise for this, as we have been living in a lot of stress lately due to this visa process...
Wife's application has been completed online (that is what I meant by "submitting," and now realise that actually means something else!) and we booked her biometrics appointment.
On VFSglobal, it states:
If you are applying for a settlement visa, your sponsor or an agent can submit supporting documents in the UK for a fee of £75 inclusive of taxes per application payable in cash or with a debit card. If you do not want to submit any documents as part of your visa application, please upload your checklist or a blank document. If nothing is uploaded, you will automatically be charged the assisted scan fee.
Your sponsor or an agent can submit documents at any of the following locations in the UK.
London: 66 Wilson Street, London, EC2A 2BT Birmingham: 5 -14 South Road, Smethwick, Birmingham, B67 7BN Belfast: Merrion Business Centre, First Floor 58, Howard Street, Belfast, BT1 6PJ Leicester: C/O Peepul's Centre, Orchardson Avenue, Leicester, L E4 6DP Cardiff: Temple Court – 13A Cathedral Road, Cardiff CF11 9H Manchester: 50 Devonshire Street North, Manchester, M12 6JH Edinburgh: 1 Rennie’s Isle, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 6QT Liverpool: SUITE NO 207,Second Floor, Graeme House, Derby Square, Liverpool, L2 7ZH Bradford: Skipton Chamber 16-18 North Parade, Bradford, BD13HT
Your sponsor should bring a copy of your passport, along with your document checklist if you have applied via Access UK, or the first page of your visa application form if you have applied via visa4uk.
Your sponsor should also provide clear and legible photocopy of all supporting documents, these will be scanned and handed back at the time of their visit. All photocopies should be A4 size. Any documents which are smaller or larger than A4 size be photocopied onto A4 sized paper. Torn, crumpled or heavily creased documents cannot be scanned and therefore should be photocopied onto A4 sized paper before they are submitted. Documents should not be laminated.
Neither VFS Global nor UK Visas and Immigration shall be liable in any way for any direct or indirect loss, costs or expenses arising from delay to a visa application processing or a rejection of a visa application because of a failure by the customer to comply with these self-upload terms of use.
I understand that we have three options:
1. to send all supporting docs to NYC
2. to upload all supporting docs into the system for scanning
3. to have the sponsor in the UK walk-in to one of the centres listed and take all supporting docs to be scanned and returned to sponsor same day
Our question is: after wife attends her biometrics appointment, can the UK sponsor right away take all supporting docs to one of the walk-in centres listed above?
And if so, what exactly should he bring, and what exactly must wife (in US) do after her biometrics? She will have her passport, so how will she get that scanned and sent to husband/sponsor in UK?
I hope this makes a little more sense now... i apologise again for my lack of precise wording!