Hi Jay and Zobel my best wishes to you and thanks for your support with the visa applications. I feel that our application is strong as I am ok financially, we have a five year old child and have been in our relationship for almost 7 years now with my wife already having had three visits to the UK on visitor visas. But you never know what could happen as the future of two adults and two young girls will boil down to the opinion of an ECO and his boss based on the quality of the papers that we have submitted to them.
It really is nervous waiting for something that will shape the rest of your life whatever the outcome. But my advice to everybody who has applied is just dont get stressed, keep the relationship strong and carry on as normal. Your time will come. We are all doing nothing wrong never forget that! all that we want is to be beside our loved ones. Its tough being seperated. I know that more than most when you are half a world away when your five year old daughter says on the phone daddy come back here now please.
And on another subject if we all think that the spouse/fiancee visa application was/is stressfull then just wait until you have to try and find a school in the UK for two primary school students as i am having to do right now. When you cant give them a firm date of their arrival here in the UK and you are told that you have missed the "last deadline" for applications for the school term in September! Even if we get the visas I have dark visions of my daughter and step daughter going to seperate schools miles apart!
But back to the reply. The right thing to do is to submit the cenomar WITH a recorded marriage for my wife!!! Why? because she has had a previous marriage recorded with the NSO of this there is no doubt. A cenomar from the NSO should show ANY previous marriage that your partner has ever had recorded with them.
Then when the annullment is over you will be able to get from the NSO a copy of the "annotated marriage contract" of the annulled marriage and it will say on it that this marriage has been declared null and void etc etc. Then when applying the visa you should submit both this and the cenomar to prove that the marriage recorded on the cenomar has indeed been annulled.
