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I want to book an appointment at VFS for my Thai wife to apply for a UK visa but am stumped by the request for a reference number. The VFS site says 'Your reference number would be published on the enrolment letter issued to you by UKVI.' but we have applied for visas for years and have no recollection of ever having such a number. Perhaps we did but no end of seaching through ancient emails has turned it up. I tried with the GWF reference number from the online visa form we filled in on the UKVI site but that doesn't work. Apparently it has to be an 8 digit number starting UKN.

I feel my blood pressure start to surge when it appears VFS have no contact numbers and the only way to make an enquiry by phone or webchat to UK immigration is charged at GBP1.37 a minute. Scandalous.

Grateful if anyone has any ideas?

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Are you unable to book the appointment without this number or are you trying to check the status of an application?

The only time I can think of where a different number to the GW number was needed was last year on the GF's first VV. If I remember correctly the number was on the receipt that she received when she was at VFS.

Can you let us have any more information?

Posted

Thanks. I think the problem is that I am too thick.

I realize now that you get the reference once the application is filled in.

On the VFS home page it kind of looks like you get it when you register with the UKVI site (which we did years ago).

I was trying to book the appointment before filling in the form (as i did not have the past visa numbers etc to hand).

Thanks anyway for your help.

steve

  • 8 months later...
Posted

How did you get this sorted out in the end? My wife and I are having the same issue. 

 

We've completed the online application through UK Visas & Immigration website and have a 'GWF' reference number. Appointment is all booked and we're seemingly ready to go. However, we're still having the same problem on the VFS Global website as mentioned above. No 'UKN' reference number so we can't add our application on there! Argh! Where do we find this number?

  • 6 months later...
Posted

I am having the same problem the aplication for 6 month vist visa resulted in a 14 digit UKVI number not a 10 digit UKN number. Where can I see find the UKN number?

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