BIGJIMMY

Thanks for the quick reply there 7by7, any idea where that would happen, my friends are in Kent?

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A friend of mine recently brought his finance to the UK on the finance step of a settlement visa, they wanted to get married in the UK which they have now done, they are now in the process of applying for the FLR which in essence is the first step of a marriage settlement visa, but it's called the FLR, they will be doing this by post in the UK, has anyone gone this route already, any advice they can give, we know that the NHS surcharge has to be completed first, at the moment they are being told that the biometrics need to be completed, Mrs D (as she's now known) did all that at The Trendy Building in Bangers for the original visa - will this still be in the system or will it be required again - but in the UK?

Any advice or guidance at all will be appreciated by them.

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Mr and Mrs D c/o Me  

Thanks, I think we'll just go ahead and try and get one from
The Spanish Embassy in London and see what happens.

The process of getting the Schengen when we lived in Thailand was never free and wasn't that quick, we still had to show tickets, insurance etc and we were married in the U.K. and with kids and it still was a ball ache and as for The Portuguese embassy that was a nightmare so......now that we live in the U.K. I was wondering is it any easier and maybe, possibly about getting a 6 month multiple one (if it exists), I'm more than happy to turn up at the airport with the Mrs, our U.K. Wedding certificate and the kids and all our passports with obviously the same
surname but will there be a problem???

Has anyone got a multiple entry Schengen visa from within the U.K.??

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Hi, we live in the U.K, we moved back last year, when we were living in Thailand Mrs E had 3 Schengen visas, 2 for Spain and 1 for Portugal, on all these occasion we got the visa with a few days either side of the actual travel dates, the holidays were just a couple of weeks etc, is it possible to get a 6 month Schengen visa from anywhere, my folks have a place in Tenerife that we visited, hence the 2 Spanish visas, we live not a million miles away from Dover and have had various friends get a ferry across with their Thai Mrs and without a visa and have no problems but we would wish to fly to Spain and I don't want to have to plan the dates every time as we have kids that attend nursery and would just like to bugger off sometimes off the cuff!!

We haven't yet applied for a Schengen from within the U.K. so any advice etc would be welcome.

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Jimmy

All good, the passport turned up at the house about a week after it was submitted with the new vignette, Ta Ta Thailand.

I have done it now, it seems that when you have to enter the details of your current vignette that it will only allow you to do so if it has already started - i.e I managed to do it today as Mrs E's vignette started today - -the 4th November. All done and submitted now so we'll see what happens, Mrs E is off to Bangers next week to do it.

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Jimmy

Just got this back from UKVI after e-mailaing them:

'Make sure you know the date you will travel to the UK before you apply.

Your temporary visa will only be valid for 30 days once you receive it and
you will need to travel within this period. If you receive your temporary
sticker, and can’t travel during the 30 day window, you will need to
apply for a replacement. Please see the guidance below.
It costs £122 to transfer.

Visa fee £122.00 is required to be paid by the applicant and biometric
appointment also need to be attended.

If the time is tight , applicant can purchase the priority service.
Applicant will have to add a cover letter stating travel date.
Please select the following options at the time of creating the file.
Reason To Visit - other
Visa Type - other
Visa Sub Type - Vignette transfer'

Do we have to wait for the original 30 day vignette to have expired before we can apply for a new one?????

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Thanks for the reply, sorry I should have explained more, we're on the first stage of a settlement, we're still in Thailand, the vignette she has now runs out on the 4th December, this was the original plan but now due to work I've changed our flights to the 16th December so we need to get a new one.

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Jimmy

We need to get a new vignette for Mrs E's settlement visa, has anyone done it yet, do we have to wait for it to expire before we can apply for a new one, any other advice?

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Jimmy

Thanks - best laid plans and all that, I think that we may have to extend it by 30 days as the dates that I submitted for the visa will no longer fit in with our plans by about 7 days!!!!

We'll get there before Christmas!!

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It can be picked up by a 3rd party as well, you ha e to write them a letter etc but my wife just collected our sons passport after I had submitted it.

A friend of mine took the ferry over from Dover with his Mrs, they are married and she was only on a 6 month visit visa, they took the Thai wedding certs and all the translations and she got stamped in, they then drove into Holland via Belgium to see him Mum.

Anyone had experience with Barclays statements for settlement visa's which they've downloaded from their online banking page - the same statements that you'd receive in the post?

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Jimmy

Anyone had experience with downloaded Barclays statements for settlement visa's?

I don't need to screen shot it as you can download up to today as a PDF, Barclays logo etc etc, looks like all the statements.

Anyone had experience with Barclays statements for settlement visa's?

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The statements are official and are downloaded from the website, they are exactly the same ones as you would get in the post every 3 months.

Every other visa we've ever done has been downloaded from the website and been accepted so it will have to do.

All stop all stop, you can indeed download a PDF from the last statement up until today, all good.

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I'm here in Thailand.

We'll be submitting Mrs E's settlement visa this week, just waiting to get paid on the 15th for the latest pay slip and we're good to go, my only niggling thought is that I can download all my official Barclays statements up until the end of August but to get the transactions from then I have to do a screen shot over a few shots/pages etc, could that be an issue, it will all match up of course and follow on??

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Jimmy

I did our son's a couple of years ago at the same time that I did his passport, that was then at The Embassy and we received the passport and UK style birth certificate to our house about 5 weeks later, now it's at The Trendy building and they don't send the passport to your house, not sure about the certificate, I just applied for our new daughters passport and it arrived back at Trendy after 2 weeks so I assume the certificate wouldn't be much longer.

It says for the A1 and the B1 to get 4.0 for speaking and listening - would have thought the A1 would be less than needed for the B1!!!!!

IELTS can be used where IELTS Life Skills is used; candidates would need to get 4.0 or above in Speaking and Listening (scores for Reading and Writing will be ignored).

I've found the answer.

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