Do you need to apply for a UK Fiance Visa?
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A UK fiancé visa - also known as a prospective marriage visa or prospective civil partnership visa. This category is falls under the Appendix FM of the Immigration rules. Fiance Visa is a category under Partner Visa. Applicants who intend to get married in the UK to their partner who is a British citizen or settled in the UK can apply for this visa.
Your partner in the UK must is British Citizen, person holding Indefinite Leave to Remain, EEA National pre-settled status or a person holding limited leave under Appendix ECAA (Ankara Agreement) of the immigration rules. The UK Fiance Visa is granted for 6 months and within these 6 months you must be able to get married and apply for a further extension for Spouse Visa. After arrival on anfiance visa, you can extend your stay inside the UK.
If the fiancé has any children from previous relationships, the children can apply to come with the fiancé, provided the single parent has sole responsibility of their child/ren.
The applicant must be able to meet the eligibility requirement in order to make a successful application as a fiance, There are various eligibility requirement, such as financial requirement (£29000 after 11 April 2024), relationship requirmeent, accommodation requirement and English Language requirement. It is duty of the applicant to provide relevant evidence in order to satisfy the Eligibility requirements.
Requirements for the UK Fiance/Fiancée Visa
You both must be above 18 years of age;
You both must have met each other in person prior to application and have the intention to permanently live together after marriage or civil partnership;
You should provide evidence of arrangements of your mrriage;
Both of you must be free to marry and any previous relationship must have broken down permanently;
The couple should provide evidence to prove that their relationship is genuine and subsisting;
You must provide evidence that they have adequate accommodation available to live in the UK;
If you are not a national of English Speaking Majority, then you must fulfil the relevant English language requirement at level A 1 by providing SELT test certificate or degree with UK Naric statements;
You must meet the financial requirement that means that your partner must provide evidence of earnings at £18,600 per year or £29000 if applying after 11 April 2024; and
If you are unable to get married within the 6 months period you may be able to extend the fiance visa from within the UK provided there are genuine reasons why you were unable to get married within the 6 months granted to you.
The financial requirement can be satisfied by the applicant or the UK sponsor (i.e. a person with ILR or a British citizen) in different ways. For example, you may be employed, self-employed, a director of a limited company, have savings, assets or liquidation of shares stocks or properties. The document requirements change according to the way you want to satisfy the financial requirement.
If the sponsor is receiving any of the following allowances or concessions, then the applicants are exempted from meeting the above financial requirements:
The applicant's will need to meet the maintenance and accommodation requirement in such cases which is based on the amount of income support for the family of same size in the UK after deduction of rent and council tax payments.
Each visa category - including fiance visas - have a specific set of required documents which depends on circumstances of the applicant and sponsor. The applicant has the burden of proof so they need to provide documents to the Home Office in order to show that they satisfy the requirements of the Immigration Rules. Some of the documents which must be submitted include:
If your fiance visa application is successful, you will be a granted a 6-month visa to allow you to come to the UK and get married. You must then apply for a marriage or spouse visa once married. After you arrive in the UK, you must wait until you have been present for 7 clear days. After this point, you can go to a registrar office in order to give notice of marriage.
Once making the application from outside the UK, the supporting documents must be submitted to the Entry Clearance officer for consideration. Once you are in the UK and have got married you can extend your stay from within the UK by submitting a spouse/marriage visa application. Generally, the process takes between 8 to 12 weeks from outside the UK unless you are purchasing priority service, which has an additional fee. The Home Office UKV&I fee for the application is £1846. Once you have extended your stay on a marriage or spouse visa visa and completed 5 years, you will be eligible to apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK.
It may be the case that your initial application for a fiance visa is refused. There are a various reasons why this can happen, including supplying incorrect documents, not disclosing relevant information or immigration issues, or assuming will request for documents which may be missing.
You should avoid such mistakes so that the Home Office does not get a chance to refuse your visa application. In order to get expert legal advice on your UK fiance visa application, get in touch with us. We guarantee you the successful outcome on cases where you provide us with all the documents we request.
We assess your circumstances and provide you a quote for our services. If you choose to move ahead with your fiance visa application, you pay a 50% deposit of our fee and 50% on submission. Once the process is started, we provide you with a comprehensive checklist of the documents you'll need to provide. We advise you on the evidence and submission process, in relation to the country you are applying from. We review all the evidence and suggest any amendments you may require, or we can draft letters and templates for you where necessary, as well as preapring your application forms and booking you an appointment in the country where you provide your biometrics. Finally, we prepare detailed representations for the Home Office or UKV&I.
We do not leave any scope for refusal of your application - if there is anything which is of concern, we point this out to you and help you to remedy the issues. Should there be a delay in your fiance visa processing times, we will chase the application for you. We can guarantee a positive outcome if you will be able to provide all the evidence we request from you in our checklist.
Can I switch to the UK Fiance Visa from Visitor Visa?
The Immigration Rules generally restrict a person on visitor visa to switch into UK Fiance Visa.
Do I need to pay Immigration Health Surcharge when applying for a UK Fiance Visa?
No you do not need to pay for the Immigration Health Surcharge for UK fiance Visa
Do I need to provide a TB test with UK Fiance Visa?
As the application can only be made form outside the UK, the immigration rules provide a list of countries where the applicant may have resided for 6 months or more will require a TB test from an IOM approved clinic.
Do I need to provide English Language Test?
Yes, you will need pass an English Language Test if you do not have a degree from the UK or certified by UK Ecctis, however, if you are between 18 and 65 years old you would need to meet the English Language requirement or if you are not a national of a majority English speaking country, you do not need to pass the English language test.
Do I need to pay IHS fee?
For fiance visa you do not need to pay for the IHS surcharge.
Do you need to apply for a UK Fiance Visa?
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