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Ouch, you were in limbo from 2 June to 13 July. That must have been dreadful. Excellent you finally got a result. Cheers
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In my experience it is highly unusual for any Thai employee to be granted 2 months leave, and be guaranteed to have her job back on return.... And the ECO will know this.
Sure in some professions a sabbatical can be negotiated, but not sure if a receptionist for the average Thai employer would be considered for such. Here lies your problem. Had it been for 2 weeks, her returning to Thai for work might have been more convincing.
if she works for an international brand then unpaid leave would perhaps be possible .......
also in tinglish, the locals often refer to girlfriends who are in a physical relationship as his 'wife'. Your gf will need to be sure about the English she uses the next time. Hope this helps.
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12 hours ago, glastoglen said:
We received the above email despite meeting the financial requirements. I thought we must have made a mistake somewhere and were worried that we might have to reapply and I travelled to the UK alone. However the visa was then granted this week so receiving that email doesn't neccesarily mean the requirements haven't been met, although that is what it appears to say.
Thanks for sharing.
can you please say around what day the Supreme Court letter was receive in the 60 scale? And then how many days or weeks after that was the visa granted? Thanks
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7by7. Just to clarify, my wife has not received that letter. I raised it here just in case one pops along in the post next week! My son is British and already here in UK with me waiting for mum to join. I believe the financial requirement has been fulfilled. I am probably worrying unduly.
The letter belongs to a girl who applied on 19 April. She had confirmation from Sheffield that she was in the Queue. The letter arrived out of the blue on 6 July @ day 60
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Now the Embassies around the world have centralised ECO's in Sheffield for the purposes of validating Family Settlement Visa's I wondered how many others on this forum were experiencing extended delays. My understanding is the guidelines for a decision is up to 60 working days. I do know the stats for May for Bangkok Applications were 100% processed by Day 60.
Unfortunately various stories are emerging of folk being delayed using the February High Court ruling, and it is worrisome that in the future this 'Paused Decision' letter could become widespread. A copy of one found on another forum is attached - this is not my wife.
my wife's story is:
17 April. Applied online to Bangkok
27 April. Attended Trendy Building. All docs scanned. Pertinent originals retained. Biometrics done.
4 May. Email received from Sheffield saying Application received and essentially she is in the queue.
by my calculation Day 55 is tomorrow.
Hoping this thread can be used to perhaps compile a group of folk in the same space, so we can compare notes and experience.
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22 hours ago, MarkGB said:
Various links on the topic in this forum..
Wife is on a Facebook Group in Thai - called 'สะใภ้ยูเค (UK)' for women waiting for settlement visas. Virtually no-one has one since the new system started in late April.
Thanks Mark, that's really useful, unlike some of the other diatribe seen elsewhere. GL with yours. I am praying she gets it this week. My 4yo who is now here in UK with me (we flew ahead mid May) is regularly asking if he will ever see his mummy again. Heartbreaking.
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alternatively we could attract posters who are in the current system as we have to abide with the system that has been set up for us - in Sheffield!
Any others here able to share CURRENT experience?
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1 hour ago, MarkGB said:
Glad to hear it worked out for the OP. We've been waiting since 19th May (biometrics) via the 'priority' service. Looking on various boards, it seems decisions now come around the 60 working days mark, considerably slower since the process was moved to Sheffield. Best of luck to all waiting.
which other boards? can you please share? thanks
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would be great to hear other experiences. any one else here past Sheffield Day 50 and waiting
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we applied 17 April. Biometrics BKK 27 April. Docs confirmed received in Sheffield 4 May.
Taking 4 May as day one would mean we are on day 54. and waiting.
Very worried by hundreds of reports of backlog. Sheffield simply cannot cope.
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7by7. We have decided to combine the condo income with my pension as the simplest and hopefully quickest option. Thanks for the MAA9. Really useful and can facilitate those requirements. Many thanks for your guidance. Fingers crossed all comes good.
One last point. Once the visa is issued, what is the validity? I mean how many weeks /months do we have before she has to use is entering UK for the first time.
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I have driven here fully comp insurance for ten years without a claim. Any ideas regarding getting a certificate of no claims from A Thai insurer that would be accepted by a UK insurer?
Any advice or guidance would be appreciated.
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Thank you 7by7. I think it is clear now. The only other thing I need to check is the requirement to show where we will live. My UK current address is family owned this is where my pension is registered and my bank account. It Is 3 bedrooms with only one adult occupying with no children, so is big enough for the 3 of us, + the owner to live in comfortably. The intention is to rent somewhere prior to buying wherever future work and schooling will take us.
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Thanks for your patience 7by7
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I wonder can I use the baht 17,500 per month rent? That would be more than £4K so would cover the £3600 deficit on annual earnings? I have a lease agreement and the bank could produce a letter showing 17500 credits monthly for past 2 years. I declare this income to the Thai Tax authorities.
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I just re-read your post....
Quote2) If you are using your earned income once in the UK, you must have a confirmed job offer starting within 3 months of your arrival and either
- have earned at least the required income for at least the 6 months prior to leaving Thailand, or
- if not then move to the UK without your wife, and be in that job earning at least the required amount for 6 months before she can apply for her settlement visa.
First bullet. I am not earning anything in Thailand other than 17,500 per month rent on my condo.
Second bullet. Does this mean if I cannot satisfy the savings element we are destined to be separated for 6 months?
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7by7. Many thanks for replying. Thanks for the guidance on cash savings confirming I am correct with £25k. Thanks for the clarity regarding my shares account.
My apologies for the confusion. I currently live in Thailand and have been here for 10 years, I am married to a Thai and we have a Son (British Passport). My £15k pension is an armed forces pension.
The visa I am hoping to apply for my wife is the 'family of a settled person' visa. I am job hunting currently for a perminent contract position in UK and hopefully will be travelling to UK (on my own) for interviews soon. If appointed and I have contract in hand, I will immediately rent a property in the locale and so will have a signed lease. At the point of a signed contract and lease, my wife will press the button to apply on-line to apply and wait for her interview/ handover document date in Bangkok. I will fly back to Thai with UK banking savings proof, contract of employment and lease to support her application. Depending on my work start date in UK it is conceivable I might still be in Thailand when she goes to BKK with passport. Or if I HAVE to have started work, I will go back to UK and wait for wife and son to join me.
I have just realised "family of a settled person" implies I will have already settled and am at work...hmmmm. Is that the case? In which case I have answered my own question.
Does that make sense? Have I missed anything?
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The last piece about work is if I cannot satisfy the savings element due to share account fluctuations
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The final qustion is. Would they take a contract of employment (but not yet started work) as proof of income in the future. I am expecting a contract in the near future. Just planning whether I can arrange it that we all leave as a family, or do I need to physically start work first, and they follow later?
Thanks if if you can help, confirm. Or otherwise.
cheers
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The other element to my question is I have share investments (not tied in to any scheme) which I could cas in at any time and have held for a number of year. For most of the time the balance would have been above £25k, but might have slipped in the market to below that. How could they calculate that? Does my bank have to produce a daily balance of the share account for the whole 6 month period...180 days? I have not made any withdrawals. I have added in the past 6 months though.
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7x7. Forgive me for resurrecting this. We are getting closer now to 'going for it.' The website app and the appendix and the guidance notes are super complicated. So here I hope you can help?
My pension from UK is 15000 GBP gross. This gives a shortfall of £3600.
if I wanted to use savings to cover this I would need to prove cash holdings for the past 6 months of:
16,000 base figure
9,000 (3600 x 2.5)
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£25,000
is that correct?
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Good luck with that, if you are successful my bet is the big boys will come calling. I am sure of this as I once had an aspiration to produce a craft beer. Not impossible but my enquiries led my to believe any major success would be met with ummmmmm resistance.......
GL
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Many thanks 7x7, OG
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OG. Many thanks. I think I am clear now. The confusing bit is per year, as opposed to amount needed for 2.5 years.
So please correct me if I am wrong. For the second subsequent period of the application (after the initial application 2.5 yrs) you would need to have:
a joint income of £18600 per annum
or
considerably more if based on savings to cover the 2.5 yrs
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thanks for any further comment
ECO Sheffield Delays/Backlog for Family Settlement
in Visas and migration to other countries
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7by7. Many thanks for that considered post, and I do hope it will be this week. I was counting day one as the date of the Sheffield receipt email. I do hope you are right as I start work at the end of the month (shifts) , and need mum here to take care of our son (already here with me), or I don't know what I will do TBH. Fingers crossed.