Hi... I did a very stupid thing today. While in the process of actually applying and making the payment for my wife's visa I entered her name as MRS when I paid the IHS surcharge although we are applying in her maiden name (as her passport). Any advice would be gratefully recieved,... Thanks.
I wouldn't worry about it, she is your wife so technically you stated her rightful marital status regardless of her name in the passport.
I don't feel that it's relevant. The title Mr, Miss, Mrs or Ms is an honorific. Honorifics may be adopted or changed at will, are not part of a person's legal name and are not stated on a passport.
Cheers guys for making me feel better... I hope it wont affect the visa decision. CFO booked for 24th and VFS appointment booked for 25th of this month. If successful I can see some 'fun' time a ahead trying to explain it here.
Well, you just have the wait ahead of you now, it will be done and dusted before you know it and you'll be waiting in a UK arrivals hall before you know it. All will be well, you'll see
I have I believed I posted something like this before but it was some while ago. When a person is at the CFO interview, be aware the person doing the interview will have no idea whatsoever what the answers are to most, if not all, the questions they will ask about their husband and his family. When we were there an Australian guy’s wife said her husband was a professor of astrophysics, when in fact he was a poorly educated man. The questioner of course had no idea if what she said was or was not correct. I told my wife to do the same if she was asked questions about my family to which she did not know the answers, to just make something up. She did that with some of the questions.
Whilst that tack may work Im not so sure there would be any reason to lie. I personally wouldn't condone it. The question put to the Australians wife must have been in response to a question asking what his job was. I'd be surprised if she didn't know that. Even if he had a relatively lowly job, why lie, she'd just open herself to being caught out in further questioning.
I sent IHS an email stating I had made a mistake and got an automated reply stating I should cancel the visa application and start again. I called UKVI and they said if something was wrong I would be contacted. I haven't heard anything. They also said the worst would be that I would have to pay a second time and claim a refund. Silly thing too, I am not sure if I entered the correct passport number for my Mrs, I may have forgotten the two letters at the front...
I bottled out and cancelled the application with the incorrect title for my other half, applied for a refund and re-applied for the visa. Now I've just realised one of the questions in the application is have you previously applied for a visa. We answered no as I assumed the embassy is really looking for people who have had a refusal. I was thinking that although we submitted the application, paid and booked the appointment we did not go through with it and attend and therefore did not complete the application. Is my thinking right?
I wouldn't be worrying about it if I was you but you do make a good point, in hindsight it may have been a good idea to mention it on the further information page of the visa application.
For me, previously applied for a visa, is the full process of applying and then getting a succesful or a failing application. You didn't go through the proper and full process of application, hence you replied to the question appropriately.
