THANK YOU- Fiancee Visa Approved!:)

[Doc Alan]

I would really appreciate advice on how my fiancee, who lives in Marikina City, obtains a fiancee/marriage visa. Our plan is for her to apply online to VFS (who work in partnership with the UK Border Agency and the British Embassy Manila) using form VAF1F. It starts by asking "How long do you intend to stay in the UK? " then "On which date will you leave the UK?" - presumably the answer is " 6 months, during which time we expect to get married and then apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain". Is it correct that VFS will then arrange an appointment for my fiancee to attend the Visa Application Centre, with proof of payment of the visa fee, and all the necessary documentation ? I am hoping to attend that appointment with her, to have available my passport and all the other documentation. I am reasonably confident that we will have such documentation, from reading various threads on this excellent Forum, also going online to the UK Border Agency website and www.vfs-uk-ph.com
Our intended timescale is that I travel to Philippines for 3 weeks around the end of April, and my fiancee would then hope to come to UK by late August.

[Florge]

I would really appreciate advice on how my fiancee, who lives in Marikina City, obtains a fiancee/marriage visa. Our plan is for her to apply online to VFS (who work in partnership with the UK Border Agency and the British Embassy Manila) using form VAF1F. It starts by asking "How long do you intend to stay in the UK? " then "On which date will you leave the UK?" - presumably the answer is " 6 months, during which time we expect to get married and then apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain". Is it correct that VFS will then arrange an appointment for my fiancee to attend the Visa Application Centre, with proof of payment of the visa fee, and all the necessary documentation ? I am hoping to attend that appointment with her, to have available my passport and all the other documentation. I am reasonably confident that we will have such documentation, from reading various threads on this excellent Forum, also going online to the UK Border Agency website and www.vfs-uk-ph.com
Our intended timescale is that I travel to Philippines for 3 weeks around the end of April, and my fiancee would then hope to come to UK by late August.

no... your fiancee will set an appointment online and she will choose which date and time she prefers to submit the documents... you can go with her but you can't get inside... you will only be allowed to stay outside the building...

[Arthur Little]

you can go with her but you can't get inside... you will only be allowed to stay outside the building...

... I've read THIS before a few times, and WOULD'VE had no reason to contradict your statement - were it not for the fact that I WAS allowed to accompany Myrna when she handed over her documents to VFS last January.

Maybe the regulations have been tightened up since then; either that, or I was the *exception to the rule ... although I can't imagine *why!

[Doc Alan]

no... your fiancee will set an appointment online and she will choose which date and time she prefers to submit the documents... you can go with her but you can't get inside... you will only be allowed to stay outside the building...

Thank you so much for your advice ; I will still accompany her and be prepared not to be allowed inside, but I'm also grateful to note Arthur's reply.