Hi everybody

My fiance has been in the UK for just over a month now and we are due to get married next week. We will then begin our application for our spouse visa. Everything is going to plan so far but we do have a couple fo questions we are hoping somebody might be able to help us with.

Firstly we are not very sure how long the spouse application will take. We have heard anywhere between 5 days and 6 months. We do meet all of the requirements and have all of the back up to support our application so there shouldnt be any problems there. Does anybody on here no roughly how long this application usually takes?

Secondly my fiance is at home all day while im working, which she finds quite boring and lonely. She did live in the UK last year on a student visa so does have friends she could see but they live quite a long way away so financially its not possible for her to do this everyday. We understand that she cannot do any paid work but is keen to do some volunteer work. Ive looked into this but it seems that she is not allowed to do this? Is this true?? It seems very harsh that she cannot do voluntary work if it is true?