FARAH1305

Hi all!

Just wanted to introduce myself. I am a Canadian married to a Brit. We currently live in England with our 1 year old daughter. I am looking to send off my husbands papers the week of July 16th. I am just waiting on his police check and some final letters of support from family and friends.

According to the government website I will need to send my spousal application to the Sydney Office. Can anyone provide any insight into them? Are they notoriously slow?

I have added my proof of payment and my daughters application for citizenship as part of my application. should this be sufficient?

Barcodes! They aren't being printed off or displayed on the pdf- is this my printer/adobe acting up ? I've taken a screen shot to show what I mean.

Finally, I am seeing a lot of posts where people are being asked for additional documents from visa and immigration? if you have sent everything requested on the forms, what more do they ask for?

Cheers

Vulcanoid

That's just where Outland applications start (and not where they used to - I didn't know they'd changed the address from Mississauga). The app will be farmed out to a visa processing office in eg London, Mississauga, Ottawa, depending on random factors that probably involve workload. For an idea of recent processing times, look at the comments and spreadsheet in the London outland sponsorship tracking thread at Timeline For Spousal Sponsorship via London.

You proof of payment needs to be included for the spousal app, yes. Presumably your child is already a citizen, and simply applying for proof? In which case that should be proof as to why they're not included as a dependent.

Sometimes they don't like the way you've done them (eg I had 3 requests for photos, all of which met their requirements, so I just wound up recycling ones I'd already sent). Or they decide they want optional paperwork (eg a declaration of common law union isn't required for CL couples, but is often requested).

Hurlabrick

Have you spotted the wiki article on spousal sponsorship yet? It is here:

http://britishexpats.com/wiki/Spousa...lication_Forms

Pretty much all your questions and more answered there - I would have a good read of it.

FARAH1305

thank you for the links. i've taken a look at the wiki and it's very helpful. thought i can't find anything on missing barcodes? anyone have any ideas?

Vulcanoid

Barcodes appear on validated PDF documents. If yours aren't generating you've probably missed a field somewhere (which should be highlighted in red) if they're generating but not printing you should check your printer settings and which pages you're asking it to produce.

FARAH1305

See that's what weird - it says it is validating but no barcodes are being generated. i've done it with a couple of new forms. i've attached a screen shot to show what I mean.

Hurlabrick

Dunno. You have copied the PDF down to your local PC drive and are completing it from there are you? I ask because if you are trying to do this in the browser plugin it often does weird things Basically always copy the PDF to your own PC and open it there I suggest..

FARAH1305

not sure what was wrong. was not opening any bar codes on my computer!!! i had to redo it on my husbands - and once i did bar codes appeared so frustrating! but alas its sorted.

there are only2 forms with bar codes correct? ( imm3444 and imm0008enu)

Hurlabrick

No. Only IMM008 generates barcodes. Other forms may have a validation facility but that's it. The barcodes allow CIC to index your application once they get it (presumably by ICR / OCR).