Thread: Visa for wifey to work in the UK

Some rules have changed recently,If you have a settlement visa and get to the UK. You will have to phone the jobcentre to make a appointment for a NI number take along all the imfo you can and if they say yes you get a number after about 2-3 weeks

No need to translate Thai documents in Thailand.

Originally Posted by pembroke

Some rules have changed recently,If you have a settlement visa and get to the UK. You will have to phone the jobcentre to make a appointment for a NI number take along all the imfo you can and if they say yes you get a number after about 2-3 weeks

Have you read this thread?

Obviously not. Go back and read it and see where you have gone wrong.

Originally Posted by melvbot

She took the TB test the other day and passed. She said out of 8 people 3 ended up failing.

what did the test involve?

I've heard first a lung scan and then coughing up ito a cup for a prolonged period if something shows up?

Originally Posted by melvbot

Full certified copy of my passport?

On this you could get a soliciter to sign that it's a true likeness or for free get someone of a certian position - I've known a copper for a long time in my home town and he will certify it for free with his signature on each page

anyone recent care to disagree? would like to know if I'm mistaken

X-ray then if further tested neding coughing test for a week.

Never showed a certified copy of my passport, just a photocopy.

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

Never showed a certified copy of my passport, just a photocopy.

Full copy or just the main page?

Full copy.

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

Originally Posted by caller

If you follow the link to T-UK posted above, on the visa sub-forum there are a load of sticky's that tell you in detail how to put a folder together. Worked for me. When applying for a NiNo for the wife, its best to have some evidence that she has been looking for work, responses to job applications, rejection letters, that sort of thing. Things really have tightened up.

National insurance number is as easy as calling up, getting the form sent, completing it and sending the marriage and visa evidence

Nothing more complicated than that.

they often require you to turn up for an interview as well

I'll put it here aswell,

1) I need to subject a certified copy of my passport, I'm in the UK; is it OK to knock on my local police officers door to sign rather than pay a solicitor? If, so how does the Police officer go about it?

2) I have a direct debit to my Credit Card of 20 pounds a month, do I need to show in the VISA documentation my credit card statement - it's rather higher than I like and I'd rather not.

Other than that my current account is healthy and I regulary save after pay 200 pound a week after expenses. I also have an extremely secure job backed up by a letter from my employer. should be Ok right?

3) My son is dual national with an UK passport currently in Thailand with his mother. I shouldn't have to prove no recourse to public funds for him or even put him on dependents travelling with my thai wife on the visa application form should I? He could be simply travelling with me. Of course all our proof of relationship evidence such as photos include him with us. I have accomodation for him and funds. How do I go about this?

It's only the wife applying for the visa, so surely I don't include him on the forms. I only have to prove there is enough accomodation for the wife around My son and I at home

Thanks in advance, please help

Again no. Been said two or three times that it's changed.

Call up, send in copy of passport and visa, NI is issued.

Simple as that.

Originally Posted by Mr Brown

1) I need to subject a certified copy of my passport, I'm in the UK; is it OK to knock on my local police officers door to sign rather than pay a solicitor? If, so how does the Police officer go about it?

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

Again no. Been said two or three times that it's changed. Call up, send in copy of passport and visa, NI is issued. Simple as that.

I am referring to the original settlement visa application where they request the sponsers certified full passport copy

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

Full copy.

Does it have to be certified?

Originally Posted by Mr Brown

I am referring to the original settlement visa application where they request the sponsers certified full passport copy

That was to Dr Andy and his NI post

I DID NOT provide a certified copy of my passport.

None at all, never in the three visas that we have had issued .

Cheers

When she put the settlement visa in, she was in Bangkok on her own having returned from Korea.
She had copies of my contracts, bank statements in her name and mine, birth certificates, letters of accomodation etc. Nothing was certified, I only provided copies of bank statements, told them it wasn't possible to give originals as I was in Kimchistan.

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

Again no. Been said two or three times that it's changed.

Call up, send in copy of passport and visa, NI is issued.

Simple as that.

not necessarily

my wife had to attend an interview

Originally Posted by DrAndy

my wife had to attend an interview

How long ago was that?

If we are talking about getting an NI number here, i just phoned up said my wife was starting work next week (she wasn't) and needs a NI number, they sent me the form, filled it in and sent it back and the number was sent through in the post a few weeks later, this was Jan/Feb this year.

Originally Posted by mr squirrel

^ Me

Checklist looks about right.

Pretty much anything you have to prove proof of relationship, finances, accommodation

I got my settlement visa for the wife last year. They are heavy on the strength of the relationship. They will want to see a load of documentation to prove it.
I had to submit e mails,bank drafts, loads of photos, phone records, even photos of me in her village with the village name in the background.
They will want to see that you have suitable accommodation in the UK and they will require proof that you have enough income to support yourselves. If your struggling to provide these it might be easier to get the 6 month visa then apply for the 2 year when you have all your documentation together.

As someone else said she cant work legally on a 6 month visa. She can work with a 2 year settlement visa no problem.

Originally Posted by Scottish Gary

I got my settlement visa for the wife last year. They are heavy on the strength of the relationship. They will want to see a load of documentation to prove it.

Did you reside with you wife in Thailand for any number of years? Or was it mostly an long distant relationship?

Originally Posted by buriramboy

If we are talking about getting an NI number here, i just phoned up said my wife was starting work next week (she wasn't) and needs a NI number, they sent me the form, filled it in and sent it back and the number was sent through in the post a few weeks later, this was Jan/Feb this year.

I think Dr Andy may have done his NI number back when they had gas lit street lamps.

So that is you, me, Nick A who have all called and got one.

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

Originally Posted by DrAndy

my wife had to attend an interview

How long ago was that?

this month!