Hi, me again

I have a quick question, my husband is filling in the form for the UK settlement visa, but he doesn't know the dates his parents were born, in fact his Mum doesn't know either. On their ID cards it says the year they were born, but not the day or month. What should be do about this? Is it okay just to make a note of this information on the application or accompanying documents?

Thanks in advance.

Hi, me again

I have a quick question, my husband is filling in the form for the UK settlement visa, but he doesn't know the dates his parents were born, in fact his Mum doesn't know either. On their ID cards it says the year they were born, but not the day or month. What should be do about this? Is it okay just to make a note of this information on the application or accompanying documents?

Thanks in advance.

My wife and I live in Bangkok, she is Thai by the way. We make a visa application every year at around this time so that we can go back to the UK to see my family for Christmas. We are in exactly the same position, as i suspect many people are that they don't know the birthday of their parents. When filling in the application form we just put in the year of birth and this has not been questioned by the British Embassy in Bangkok for the last 5 applications, so i think that you should be ok.

I am told that this is quite a common thing especially in the North of Thailand because they apparently did not keep records in the past. On a positive note it saves a fortune on birthday presents. LOL.

Cheers, Rick.

Thanks for that. He has been to the UK three times before, so I guess we must have done the same. The thing that threw me was having to put day, month and year in on the online application

Hi, me again

I have a quick question, my husband is filling in the form for the UK settlement visa, but he doesn't know the dates his parents were born, in fact his Mum doesn't know either. On their ID cards it says the year they were born, but not the day or month. What should be do about this? Is it okay just to make a note of this information on the application or accompanying documents?

Thanks in advance.

My wife and I live in Bangkok, she is Thai by the way. We make a visa application every year at around this time so that we can go back to the UK to see my family for Christmas. We are in exactly the same position, as i suspect many people are that they don't know the birthday of their parents. When filling in the application form we just put in the year of birth and this has not been questioned by the British Embassy in Bangkok for the last 5 applications, so i think that you should be ok.

I am told that this is quite a common thing especially in the North of Thailand because they apparently did not keep records in the past. On a positive note it saves a fortune on birthday presents. LOL.

Cheers, Rick.

No worries. Good luck.

Cheers, Rick