Hi All Quick question - When submitting yahoo chat logs in support of a fiancee visa application how many should you submit over a 6 month period? I have pretty much saved every chat between me and my girlfriend and I am trying to trim it down a bit as its going to total well over 500 pages! What sort of limit should I put on this? Cheers
I did the same before by trimming down all the chats. I think it is important to show a reasonable selection over the period you mentioned but don't swamp the ECO. 5 x A4 pages double-sided should suffice IMO
Oh, I copied mine today to a word document. Over 500 pages of it!! And I've not got started with the Facebook ones.... Some hefty editing is needed I think
I agree with Mike (aposhark) - it would be better to provide chat logs over a period of time, example, one page showing chats spread over a few days, rather than the whole lot. This would show consistency and provides evidence the relationship is long-term and ongoing, with daily contact.
Personally I would suggest only 3 or 4 A4 pages (double sided) spread over the whole period. I would also suggest to be selective on the conversations you include. Only positive converstaions to be submitted. Include those that specifically relate to your new life together in UK. About the depth and meaning of your relationship. Why you will settle in UK. How you intend to support yourselves etc etc Key issues compliant with the investigations of the ECO Good luck!!
Fair points Peter, in our case I have so much history that I would not really want to submit it, too many arguments about too many things, the practicalities of getting here have been so hard for us that there is little of the good stuff for us to concentrate on, but I agree with you about the general content, these are the right things to emphasise, it's a bit like a CV, don't make it too long otherwise no one will read it. ajisgod2012, 50 pages is too much, the civil servants that have to read it have limited time, I must admit that in an offline conversation with Kuya I suggested something similar, hit them with a ton of data, but on reflection it wont work, the ECO simply wont read it and may well assume that you are inventing stuff, you never know.
Of far greater importance than chat logs are clearly dated photographs showing both of you together spread over a several year period. The Borders Agency - who now issue the visas - can get a far greater idea of the breadth and depth of your relationship and, frankly, they don't have the time to read 50 page compilations, but may scan one or two pages. A lot of weight is given to the answers your fiancée gives at her interview. She really does need to know all there is to know about you. A favourite question is "what are his bad habits?" and another is "what is the first thing he does upon waking in the morning?" A Fiancée visa is considerably more difficult to obtain than a Spousal one - and that's now hard enough - and the Borders Agency refuse many more than they issue.
Well, at least a period of time sufficient to demonstate a genuine realationship. Some folks may not have been in a relationship for several years. UKBA have not routinely conducted interviews for many years now. Under the new rules UKBA still state that decisions on the application will generally be made without interview. However there could well be some cases where the applicant may be invited for either a personal interview, or telephone interview. Usually there needs to be a specific issue to clarify, but at least under the new rules the applicant can indicate on the application form the language they would you like to use in any interview. The requirements for fiance(e) and spouse visa are pretty much the same. The main difference with the fiance(e) visa is providing sufficient supporting evidence of the intention to actually get married or that a civil partnership will take place and that there is an intention to live together permanently in the UK Sorry to disagree here Markham. But there's no evidence to support that statement. In fact the evidence clearly indicates the opposite. The vast majority of applicants for visa's leading to settlement do actually succeed.
My information may be a little dated - six months' old. When I enquired at the Embassy, I was informed that applicants for Spousal (and Fiancee) Visas are interviewed once the initial application has been processed by the new regional Visa Centre in Hong Kong. Only applications where paperwork is good, all the requirements met and who pass the interview are sent to UKBA in London. Tourist Visas are granted/refused without interview. We will have to agree to disagree but my information comes from within the Embassy
We'll just have to totally disagree on that one. In my experience that has not been the case at all. It certainly will not be the case for future applications.Period. Yep we will. My information also comes from within the Embassy. Additionally from the UKBA published reports in the public domain.
