To begin with the visa application and all its forms?

[lloydegbrick]

As cheekee states there are no such priority services for settlement-route visa

Thank you Terpe
and thank you cheekee and Arthur
Well that is that one all sorted out
It is good to know this for sure
We just have to settle down and wait now
Regards to all for your very helpful replies..
LG

[lloydegbrick]

TO ALL
HERE'S WISHING YOU THE VERY BEST MERRY XMAS AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR EVER
with lots of love and best wishes
Regards
LG

[Terpe]

TO ALL
HERE'S WISHING YOU THE VERY BEST MERRY XMAS AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR EVER
with lots of love and best wishes
Regards
LG

The best new year wish you could have come true would be that your wife be with you here in UK under settlement-route visa.
I pray for that LG

[lloydegbrick]

The best new year wish you could have come true would be that your wife be with you here in UK under settlement-route visa.
I pray for that LG

Why thank you very much for that Terpe I think this is a very nice thing to say...
Regards
LG

[lloydegbrick]

Happy New Year to you all

If my wife does or could get rejected by the visa aurthorites?
How would one go about making an appeal against this?

Thank you
Regards
LG

[Terpe]

Happy New Year to you all

If my wife does or could get rejected by the visa aurthorites?
How would one go about making an appeal against this?

Thank you
Regards
LG

LG, think positive

Remember you can only appeal against a decision which is a mistake within Immigration Rules.
There's no answer to your question at this time
Any refusal will give very specific reasons as to why and will include full details on how to appeal if you feel the refusal was given in error.

Be aware that appeals may often take 6 months or more to complete. It's a very stressful period.
Oftentimes it's faster to overcome the refusal reason(s) and make a new application

[lloydegbrick]

LG, think positive

Be aware that appeals may often take 6 months or more to complete. It's a very stressful period.
Oftentimes it's faster to overcome the refusal reason(s) and make a new application

Thanks for this Terpe

Regards
LG

[lloydegbrick]

Hello Terpe
My wife has just got a text from Visa office to say that her visa application is being view by their staff, or words to that effect
Dose this means it is now at the uk border agency HQ here in London?
Regards
LG

[Arthur Little]

Hello Terpe
My wife has just got a text from Visa office to say that her visa application is being view by their staff, or words to that effect
Does this mean it is now at the uk border agency HQ here in London?
Regards
LG

Probably I'm in a position to answer this latest query of yours, Lloyd ... based on my own wife's application.

.................................. happened to be away back on 20th January 2009, I'll grant you; fully 7 years ago! But ... ... unless the system's changed, NO, ... it means the papers your wife submitted are now in the hands of the *British Embassy - otherwise known as 'The British High Commission' (as *it called itself back then) - in Manila, for normal processing.

So, as I've explained, unless the system's changed, I'm confident Terpe will back me on this ^ statement.

[Terpe]

Correct Arthur and nicely put too

[lloydegbrick]

unless the system's changed, NO, ... it means the papers your wife submitted are now in the hands of the *British Embassy - otherwise known as 'The British High Commission' (as *it called itself back then) - in Manila, for normal processing.

Thank you Arthur
Regards
LG

[lloydegbrick]

Hello Arthur

I ask my wife to send her text to me for word for word that she got from the UK Visa Application Centre in Manila

These are the copies of those two text messengers that were sent to her

(The visa application for GWFXXXXXXX was forwarded to UK on 14/12/2015)

(The processed visa application for GFWXXXXXXX was received on 1/6/2016)

So it looks like my wife is right about her application has been forward to the UK after all

Thank you
With regards
LG

[cheekee]

Don't understand why it has been forwarded to the UK.

Our application wasn't. It was sent to Manila the same day it was received.

[lloydegbrick]

Don't understand why it has been forwarded to the UK.

Our application wasn't. It was sent to Manila the same day it was received

.

Hello Cheekee
I don't know or understand either and to be honest i did not know the difference between the two places, London or Manila?

Now i am a little worried

Regards
LG

Regards

[lloydegbrick]

Hello all
At 4 am my time here I got a text from my wife to ask me to log online because she has just got a package from the visa office
She has got her visa...
Wow this is amazing
less than 4 weeks from her appointment

Thank you all very much for your great support

All we need to do now is to get her CFO and then book a one way ticket to the UK
Thank heavens she has already

Best wishes and regards
LG

[SimonH]

Great news, well done

[lloydegbrick]

Thank you Simon :

[Michael Parnham]

Wonderful news, another step forward, congratulations!

[lloydegbrick]

Thank you Michael

[Arthur Little]

Hello all
At 4 am my time here I got a text from my wife to ask me to log online because she has just got a package from the visa office
She has got her visa...
Wow this is amazing
less than 4 weeks from her appointment

Thank you all very much for your great support

AMAZING, indeed, (that your wife's visa has come through as quickly as it has, I mean) and, of course, from the British Embassy in Manila - as *Terpe, *Cheekee and myself had ALL anticipated!

... CONGRATULATIONS to you BOTH ... I'm truly delighted, as will each of *them - and others who've advised you - be when they ALSO learn of this really marvellous outcome!

[Arthur Little]

All we need to do now is to get her CFO and then book a one way ticket to the UK
Thank heavens she has already

Best wishes and regards
LG

... yep, that's it; onwards and upwards!!

[Terpe]

Hello all
At 4 am my time here I got a text from my wife to ask me to log online because she has just got a package from the visa office
She has got her visa...
Wow this is amazing
less than 4 weeks from her appointment

Thank you all very much for your great support

All we need to do now is to get her CFO and then book a one way ticket to the UK
Thank heavens she has already

Best wishes and regards
LG

What wonderful news LG
Congratulations and well done to you both.

It's been a long road but you both stuck at it and now have the rewards.

Don't limit your flight search to one way fares only as sometimes a promo return ticket can work out as a better deal.

[cheekee]

Congratulations.

Glad you got it.

Dont forget you need to book travel within the dates given on the vignette in her passport.

Keep her TB certificate and your marriage certificate in the carry on luggage just in case the immigration officer at the UK airport wishes to see it. They will want to see the CFO sticker in her passport and the CFO certificate at the airport she is leaving on in the Philippines. She will need to pay the terminal fee and airport tax which I think is 1640 pesos or around that mark.

And she will need some warm clothes. When she arrives get a rice cooker and start looking for a local or online store that sells filipino foods lol. We use http://www.tindahan.co.uk


As Terpe said. we found that a one way ticket is more expensive than a return. But I went over to Cebu and had a short holiday and came back with my wife together.

Congratulations again.

[Raven_Mystique]

Hello all
At 4 am my time here I got a text from my wife to ask me to log online because she has just got a package from the visa office
She has got her visa...
Wow this is amazing
less than 4 weeks from her appointment

Thank you all very much for your great support

All we need to do now is to get her CFO and then book a one way ticket to the UK
Thank heavens she has already

Best wishes and regards
LG

Hi, did they interview her? Thank you. I will have my appointment for biometrics and submission of documents on the 20th, Praying to get a visa granted Thank you

[lloydegbrick]

Thank you Arthur

[lloydegbrick]

Don't limit your flight search to one way fares only as sometimes a promo return ticket can work out as a better deal.

Hello Terpe
Thank you for the best wishes

I did a search for return ticket and they were all over well over the £1000 mark
I manage to get a deal with Cathay Pacfic for less than £660 one way ticket It is done now and her flight come in at Heathrow next week

Regards
LG

[Michael Parnham]

Hello Terpe
Thank you for the best wishes

I did a search for return ticket and they were all over well over the £1000 mark
I manage to get a deal with Cathay Pacfic for less than £660 one way ticket It is done now and her flight come in at Heathrow next week

Regards
LG

Fantastic,

[Terpe]

Hello Terpe
Thank you for the best wishes

I did a search for return ticket and they were all over well over the £1000 mark
I manage to get a deal with Cathay Pacfic for less than £660 one way ticket It is done now and her flight come in at Heathrow next week

Regards
LG

As long as you'll be together at long last be happy with whatever you managed to do.

[Terpe]

Hi, did they interview her? Thank you. I will have my appointment for biometrics and submission of documents on the 20th, Praying to get a visa granted Thank you

There's no interview

[Arthur Little]

Hi, did they interview her? Thank you. I will have my appointment for biometrics and submission of documents on the 20th, Praying to get a visa granted Thank you

There's no interview

Exactly ... it'll simply be a case of submitting your documents - and having your biometrics taken - as opposed to an actual interview.

Good Luck, Raven.