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Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Aug 5th 2014, 12:24 pm

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Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

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Re: Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

Looks very complete, though please don't hold me responsible if anything is missing!--the merciful veil of forgetfulness is already falling over this ghastly process in my brain.

Re your final...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jul 30th 2014, 1:51 am

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Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

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I didn't authenticate the colour copy of my passport.
I found out afterwards that some other people have, but I didn't think to do it before, and didn't see anything in the guidance saying it's...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jul 26th 2014, 9:26 pm

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Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

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Thanks, feelbritish! Yes, it does sound as if you are in the same position as us. And now I have seen the passport and it is a real "Entry clearance" visa stuck in there and laminated all over one...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jul 26th 2014, 1:16 am

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Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

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YES!!! we got the visa!!!!!

(Haven't seen it with our own eyes, family member signed for it as we are away, since we didn't expect it so fast, but we are assured it is the real deal in DH's...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jul 24th 2014, 4:15 pm

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Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

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Good heavens!

Today, July 24, we have the email telling us a decision has been made!

Of course, as usual, they do not say WHAT decision.

That was so quick, one worries a little--could it be...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jul 9th 2014, 2:17 pm

Replies: 44

Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

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Re: Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

Further update:

July 7: Visa Application (with priority processing paid) posted Fedex Express
July 9: Delivered Sheffield.
July 9: automated email from Sheffield saying it has been safely...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jul 9th 2014, 1:21 pm

Replies: 44

Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

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Re: Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

Update:

Visa Application (with priority processing paid) posted Fedex Express July 7.
Delivered Sheffield July 9.

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jul 8th 2014, 5:53 pm

Replies: 44

Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

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Re: Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

THANK YOU Nigel! Big relief. Thanks for taking the time to post.

You are right, I know they must do this all the time; but as we didn't request any particular shipping option, I worried that they...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jul 8th 2014, 3:23 pm

Replies: 44

Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

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Re: Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

Thank you so much, Nigel. Phew.

Re the shipping, I know you had a fed-ex account as well. Did you do the same thing as we did, simply fill in the International Air Waybill with your fed-ex account...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jul 7th 2014, 10:51 pm

Replies: 44

Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

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Re: Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

So--to continue our progress:

today, July 7th, we fed-exed the application to Sheffield!

As per Nigel's recommendation, we got a fed-ex account number, and then we actually went to an...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jul 7th 2014, 1:28 pm

Replies: 44

Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

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Thanks, Nigel!

Best of luck to you for your move--wow, really almost here at last!

Hope all goes smoothly. Will be over before you know it, and all those logistics that now loom so large and...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jul 3rd 2014, 9:53 pm

Replies: 44

Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

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OK so here's an update.

We went to the office at Varick St, downtown NYC, for the biometrics. Actually very easy and painless, hardly any wait, very nice personnel.

NB: in one bit of guidance...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jul 2nd 2014, 12:01 pm

Replies: 44

Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

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Thanks formula and Nigel.

I see now where I got the idea of the Postal service from. There is a handy four-page government publication called Apply for a UK visa in the USA which lays out simply...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jul 2nd 2014, 12:13 am

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Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

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Re: Priority processing spouse visa worth it? Update

I thought I read somewhere that both Fedex and US post could supply prepaid voucher things that are valid internationally.

I dont know how fedex works, you have to set up an account online I think...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jul 1st 2014, 11:33 pm

Replies: 44

Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

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Re: Priority processing spouse visa worth it? Update

OK it's me here again, and we are now in the US and actually doing the visa application.
My husband is the applicant, a US citizen.
I am the spouse sponsor, UK from birth.

I will give our...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jun 25th 2014, 2:05 am

Replies: 44

Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

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Right, Brit, that is probably it.

Well, we have just made the initial application and booked the biometrics appointment.

I am in a panic because in the "extra information" section we mentioned...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jun 20th 2014, 6:55 pm

Replies: 44

Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

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Thanks Britinparis! I knew about this processing times look-up actually....but I wonder if when they say "most are processed in 60 days" they are taking an average of priority and non-priority...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jun 19th 2014, 4:52 pm

Replies: 44

Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

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Thank you very much, formula, for taking the time and trouble to post this information--and to nudge me towards UK yankee, which of course I should have thought of already.

Hm. Looks as if we will...

Forum: Citizenship/Passports and Spouse/Family Visas (UK)

Jun 19th 2014, 8:33 am

Replies: 44

Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

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Priority processing spouse visa worth it?

In ncoomber's thread "Wife Settlement Visa Update...." nigel so helpfully listed all the paperwork and steps he took to get his USC wife's visa. They were applying in the USA (as she was USC) and...

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