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General Or Family Visa?

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Hi,

We are off to England for a 3 week visit next month and my wife has just applied for a General visitor visa using form VAF1a. This is the visa we applied for and received two years ago when we weren't married. Anyway, I've just noticed about the Family visa and realised that as we will be staying at my dad's and we're now married, she may have applied on the wrong form and she should have applied using form VAF1b.

Can someone please confirm that she has used the incorrect form or that it's still ok to use the General visit visa?

Many thanks in advance.

There is no problem applying for a General Visitor Visa rather than a Family Visit, the only difference that for a Family Visit Visa there is, currently, the right of appeal if the application is refused.

theoldgit

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Thanks for the reply, much appreciated.

I Forgot to mention in my first post we are legally married, I take it that wouldn't make any difference and the General Visa is fine?

As you are now married your family is her family, so she could have applied for a family visit visa.

However, as theoldgit says, that she applied for a general visit visa wont be a problem.

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Ok, good to know for the next time she applies. Thanks 7by7 and theoldgit!

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