Step By Step

[mraitchison]

Can somebody go through the process of the g.f going for her visa at the embassy step by step (with waiting times roughly if you can) as she is going to have to organise this alone.

[tuky]

More info is required mate, what embassy? what visa? How long have you been together? where are you? etc etc.

[the scouser]

From your previous thread, I presume you're on about the British embassy and that the application is for a visit visa.

Your wife attends the embassy armed with the application form, passport, money and supporting documents. Upon entering the building she will pass through an ante-chamber where her papers will be checked. She will then proceed to the main office where she will take a number and wait to be called. The visa officer will then check throught the paperwork and ask your wife a few general questions. In his own mind, he will make a rough decision whether to either grant the visa or defer it for a further interview. The further interview can be either a 10-minute chat or a full blown formal affair, but will be conducted on another day. Your wife will then be asked to proceed to the cashier's cubicle where she'll have to pay. If the visa officer decides to issue the visa, your wife will be asked to return either later the same day or within the next day or two to collect it. The length of time it takes is dependent upon how many other applicants are before her in the queue.

Scouse.

[Khutan]

As with most Visa's, have plenty of supporting information, and don't lie.

Pictures and phone records for your G/F are like gold for the application.

Aoart from that good luck.

[mraitchison]

Phone records are always a problem as we live together have done for most of the relationship problem is we live between her apartment in BKK my house out in the sticks so we never changed any bills to join names woops

. A few photos (but oddly enough its always of one and not us together)

However it is not a settlment visa so we can see what happens.

[GU22]

However it is not a settlment visa so we can see what happens.

Try and produce as much evidence of your relationship as possible in order to show that the stated purpose of the visit ( to meet your family) is genuine. However, from what you have posted elsewhere, and assuming she supplies all the documents you have previously listed, I think that she will get her vv after a short interview or possibly no interview. My step son turned up at the embassy with his application form and all the documents they could possibly want, plus a few extra just in case. He handed them in and paid the fee and was told to take a seat. After about an hour he was called to the counter and told to come back tomorrow to collect his passport with the visa in it.

Not guaranteed, of course, but stop worrying!

[mraitchison]

Tomorrow is the day thursday - if it goes on any longer I will be in need of a new missus as she will be buried in the back garden if she moves any more of the documents around in the folder