Quote Originally Posted by Terpe View Post
Washy, the visa application would have asked for the planned travel date. What was that?

The temp vignette in her passport is valid for 30 days from the date stated in the application as the intended travel That vignette will be her proof of entitlement for UK entry but only within the stated 30 day period.
If she doesn't travel to the UK within the indicated 30 day period then yes, she'll need to apply for a new 30 day visa as the original will be expired.
Yes, as you say there's a fee for this around the cost you mentioned

Your wife will get a letter explaining everything including how she must collect her full BRP when she arrives in
UK. This needs to be collected within 10 days of arrival and from the Post Office indicated in her letter.

Failure to collect without giving notice is pretty serious so try all you can to follow the instructions in the letter.

Hope that helps
So the travel date on the application was 20th August - which was the only reasonable thing to do given the uncertainty on application times (I'm still not sure what date they would stamp on the vignette if you put the travel date as a few days after the application date?), travelling on the 20th isn't an issue - but we have been working on ASAP time frames so if my wife can travel sooner it would be better - but I think it's not possible.

I'm in Malaysia until 1st August so she was hoping we could travel back together.