Gf's Passport Returned To Vfs Centre In 4days

[1983wez]

hello,

I returned to England on Monday but i was in Bangkok on friday (8th Jan) to go with the GF to submit our first visit visa for the UK at the VFS building in regents house.

My GF has got a txt message saying her passport is ready for collection now (taking only 4 working days)

She has returned to Khon Kaen so will have to wait maybe a week before she can get back down to Bangkok to pick up her passport and find out the outcome of her application.

From previous experience does anyone know if a decison made that quick is a good result or a bad one? I am so anxious to find out, but the GF can't get back to Bangkok yet!!!

Thanks guys,

1983wez

[NanLaew]

Chill. It's in the bag. She's got it.

[kennkate]

Should have paid for the courier service Cheaper than a return trip to Bangkok and she would have it in 2 days at the most

Don't know if you can get it sent Via Courier now might be worth checking. Don't worry things are much quicker now. We waited 13 weeks back in june 2008

All the best

[tigerfish]

my wife got her passport along with her 2 year visa back in less than a full working week.

it all depends on your circumstances. are you married(no) how long have you known each other, what does she do for work, what are you planning to to do back in the u.k. can you prove viable means as a sponser to support in her stay. i.e. somewhere to stay, how much do you earn, what are your plans whislt in the u.k. proof of reationship. emails, photos, phone bills, that sort of thing.

please do not take what i say the wrong way. i am just trying to point out to you that these are some of the things that they take into consiration when approving a visa application.

i dont need to tell you the situation back in the u.k. people are starting to get severly ticked off with foreigners coming into the country and abusing the system.

if you have done everything above board and you are at ease with yourself, that you have done everything possible in trying to present a good application. then you should look at it in a positive way.

Edited January 13, 2010 by tigerfish

[ThaiVisaExpress]

Thats the current processing time it means nothing until you open her documents.

[7by7]

my wife got her passport along with her 2 year visa back in less than a full working week.

it all depends on your circumstances.....

Sorry, not quite right. Unless an interview is required or there are unusual circumstances which require further investigation, it takes the same amount of time to process a refusal as it does an acceptance.

Sorry, 1983wez, but there is no way of knowing the result until she gets her passport back.

[1983wez]

Thanks for the comments guys,

I am just going to have to sit and wait for that envelope to be opened.

I suppose you are right 7by7, it must be the same amount of time to issue a visa as much as a refusal. But i wasn't sure if people could comment on the time it had taken them for a visa to be granted, and also refused, so i could compare the two to try and work out what my GF's application might be.

Tigerfish I ticked all the criterea as her sponsor regarding accomodation (including photos and letter from my landlord), savings and income. 6months wage slips, letter from employer, 6months bank statements and savings account. We are only a year apart in age (26+25) 14 months of photos, phone bills and 7 trips to LOS under my belt in that time with all reciepts of every trip. copies of my passport certified and all entry/exit stamps.

The only thing that i have ever had worries about is my GF's reason to return. She is now unemployed and i support her in thailand (I included proof of money sent each month) I have emphasised the strength and seriousness of our relationsip and how we would not want to jepordise future applications such as a settlement visa by not adhering to the rules and restrictions of a visit visa and also her over staying in the UK. She has also visited Europe before and returned to thailand before her visa to europe expired, so i hope that will show the embassy that she has experience travelling abroad where she did not over stay. (however this was a schengen visa, they seem to be granted much easier for some reason. So much for the UK being part of the EU.)

The one thing i wish we had done was changed the name of her mothers farmland and put it in my GF's name before i submitted the application as this may have added strength to the reason to return as it would have been assets GF's name, but too late to worry about that now.

[moe666]

Maybe good you didn't change the property ownership before applying for visa, may have looked fishey.

[ThaiVisaExpress]

Await the outcome hopefully it is positive news for you both.

[trevorg]

My GF (now wife) has had 2 UK visitor visas granted in the past 18 months, one in July 2008 when I had only known her 7 weeks (2.5 weeks of me in Thailand), she stayed in the UK for the full 6 months and one in July 2009 when I was back in the UK for business and we stayed 5 weeks (I now live in Thailand). Both times it took 5 or 6 working days. We have also both just returned from a holiday in Australia and New Zealand, Australia visa took about 3 weeks and NZ two days. All very similar circumstances except she has 2 kids (as do I now!) here in Thailand.

The 'evidence' that you've supplied is exactly what we submitted.

Best of luclk!