WHV to Visitor Visa...
Oct 4th 2006, 12:00 pm
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WHV to Visitor Visa...
I'm in the UK on a 2 year WHV and now have less than a year to go (my visa expires 8th September, 2007.)
Im going to sponsor my bf under common-law and we're hoping to send off our application next month.
Reading old posts on timelines, it seems that in most cases it can take anywhere from 4 weeks (lucky) to 6 months to hear if you've been approved (or not.)
What Im wondering is say worse case scenerio...we still havent heard anything just before my visa expires...am I able to apply for a visitor visa to legally stay in the UK until we get word if our application is successful or not? If I cant and I go back to Canada, are we no longer considered common-law?
Thanks everyone.
Im going to sponsor my bf under common-law and we're hoping to send off our application next month.
Reading old posts on timelines, it seems that in most cases it can take anywhere from 4 weeks (lucky) to 6 months to hear if you've been approved (or not.)
What Im wondering is say worse case scenerio...we still havent heard anything just before my visa expires...am I able to apply for a visitor visa to legally stay in the UK until we get word if our application is successful or not? If I cant and I go back to Canada, are we no longer considered common-law?
Thanks everyone.
Oct 4th 2006, 12:21 pm
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Re: WHV to Visitor Visa...
Originally Posted by ChelseaUK
I'm in the UK on a 2 year WHV and now have less than a year to go (my visa expires 8th September, 2007.)
Im going to sponsor my bf under common-law and we're hoping to send off our application next month.
Reading old posts on timelines, it seems that in most cases it can take anywhere from 4 weeks (lucky) to 6 months to hear if you've been approved (or not.)
What Im wondering is say worse case scenerio...we still havent heard anything just before my visa expires...am I able to apply for a visitor visa to legally stay in the UK until we get word if our application is successful or not? If I cant and I go back to Canada, are we no longer considered common-law?
Thanks everyone.
Im going to sponsor my bf under common-law and we're hoping to send off our application next month.
Reading old posts on timelines, it seems that in most cases it can take anywhere from 4 weeks (lucky) to 6 months to hear if you've been approved (or not.)
What Im wondering is say worse case scenerio...we still havent heard anything just before my visa expires...am I able to apply for a visitor visa to legally stay in the UK until we get word if our application is successful or not? If I cant and I go back to Canada, are we no longer considered common-law?
Thanks everyone.
It is not a nice scenario but unfortunately we have no other option.
