Hi everyone. I’m Ian and I thought I better introduce myself. As the title says I’ve been around this forum lurking since at least August but thought I better post something. I got married in October to a Filipina from Laoag City up in Ilocos Norte. We are currently about a month away from applying for a spousal visa. Anyway, that’s a brief story of me. I’ll probably start asking questions when I get confused about documentation to submit and all that not so fun stuff. Anyway if you got this far, cheers. Hope everyone here gets what they need as from lurking you all seem a helpful kind bunch.
Hi Ian , welcome to the forum , you'll find lots of interesting and helpful info here ,always better to join than lurk haha
Hello Ian and here. For "evidence of relationship" with your wife's spousal visa application: Make a small scrapbook and put about 30 to 50 photos in. Annotate them with dates and location: "Me, my wife, her family, Laoag City, Oct 2017" Make sure you keep all hotel receipts, airtickets, and chat logs/emails. Not too exhaustive but organised and easy to follow for the ECO person who will go through the documentation.
Thank you all for the welcome and thank you Aposhark for the advice. Its a long process as I'm sure you all here are aware. We are applying for her and her daughter. I can't remember the last time I didn't have an headache thinking about all the supporting documentation haha
you need to read various threads on here--started this year--about dependent child visas. several of us have been refused on the grounds of shared parental responsibilities. its far from straightforward. do your research.
That's what I realised in my lurking. Both my wife and I are speaking about how to go about proving that she is the one with sole responsibility. Seems like a can of worms to be honest.
And the real exciting bit on the new electronic form is that you have to provide the birth certificates of both parents for any dependant child!
My gosh... Never ending this dependent application. Way more complicated than the spousal half. I hadn't got that far yet, thanks for the heads up.
we had my wifes sons application refused. his father is alive and lives in the same village. so ukvi take the view he has active responsibility for the boy. in your case--is the boys father named on the birth certificate? is he still around ? is he involved in the child's life ? does he contribute money ?
Very similar circumstances to you to be honest. Yeah, hes on the birth certificate and lives in the same city. Hate to be very wishy-washy when I say this but he doesn't do a lot for his daughter (my wife works, puts her through school, takes her to school, puts her to bed etc with my support too) as he is jobless and from what Aubrey (my wife) tells me, he has been for a while. I know that is the case since I have been with her, including before marriage. Ironically, my wife was telling me that her daughter was given money from her fathers aunt or something, but she never saw it. Instead it was spent on beer! But I guess they don't want to hear about that sort of thing or that it even matters.
i have to say--knowing what ive found out this year---you need to use an expert immigration lawyer for the childs visa. this will probably double the cost, but otherwise you will be burning £1500.
if you havent already--read this; http://www.british-filipino.com/ind...sal-of-stepsons-visa-application.15915/page-2
Ukvi will always argue being a parent is not just about financial support it' emotional support too. That is why it' key to either get both parents on board or clearly demonstrate sole responsibility. Again on the new application it asks are you using an immigration laeyer. Why they I am not sure of.
