Joyce27:
Thank you for your input. My wife decided to seek two lawyers advice in the Uk one of them said i don't need to show my pay slips since she will be sponsoring me and meets the requirements while the other one said i need to still have 6 months pay slips even if she is my sponsor. Just to be on the safe side we are going to wait and apply when my payslips complete.

If your wife is your sponsor and she earns more than £18600 you don’t need to show your payslips. If she earns less then you need your full 6 months, nothing less, to support her finances.

If your wife is your sponsor, she must have worked for her organisation for more than 6 months and have 6 months payslips.

Minnienellie24:
They are so unpredictable. But so far from what many people on this thread have said, they were not asked any serious question. My hubby was asked how excited he was to join his wife and his passport was stamped. If you can find your way to 'home'(where your spouse resides), then there is no point meeting you up if you guys dont see need for it. But IMHO, I would advise your spouse meets you up at the airport in case of any unforeseen contingencies.

MreSBee:
Thanks @phatbaby.

God bless you. I actually have picked one or two things that I could use in your response.... especially the screenshot. Like you said, I’m actually going to pick milestones like “birthdays, wedding planning holidays we both went on together and times she cane visiting to Nig” parts of the chats and screenshot them so I can use to back up the chats on word document. I believe you’re absolutely right by pointing it out that they might think or believe that word document could be edited.

Also I’m going to screenshot our WhatsApp calls/video calls which unfortunately (might not be much cos I didn’t think of doing it right from a few months ago like you did your). But thanks again.... I believe it’s never too late as I haven’t even submitted the application yet

Actually I have a lawyer involved in this application and he doesn’t see anything wrong in the WhatsApp history on word document.... only that he said I and my wife must back it up with a cover summarising how we came about the history and how we came about the about 100 pages we plan to compress the chats into. But I strongly believe including the screenshots would even go a longer way in convincing the ECO or whoever is going to handle it

So are you in Brum already or that’s where you will be settling when you enter. Been to New Street a few times.... when I used to go visit my wife’s parents in Birmingham trying to ask for their blessings on marrying their daughter lol

MreSBee:
Hello house.....

I’ve been a bit quiet on here. Reason is I’ve been busy compiling documents for my reapplication. As I get to a concluding stage for compilation, I have a question regarding WhatsApp chat history for evidence or proof of communication. Please how do I go about almost 5,000 pages of WhatsApp chat history on Microsoft word. I am aware I’m to edit it and summarise it... please if you’ve been in my shoes before or graduated, how did you summarise your own? Did you just pick two random chats/pages of chat per month or just bits and bobs to form a whole page on word document. Please someone should explain how they did theirs. Thanks

Aphrodite007:


Big congrats! This gives me hope cos I’m waiting for mine and I hope it’s good news too. Congrats again. Birmingham is a cool place, Nigerian food is not hard to get there, lucky you! In my own side, only one shop sells Nigerian food , it is well!

Lexusgs430:



Congratulations.... Location of shampoo popping......


NB: Remember to pay your 61% tithe (champagne in this Buhari regime)? Your tithe % must be higher....

Pneyi:


Yes.. They will get back to us anytime from now with our expectations met .. Keep hope alive.. Winks

readynow:
Good I hope to graduate one day too
Please I got a transaction confirmation email with transaction reference indicating they will send email of my reference number but I have not gotten email of the reference number but during the cause of the payment for IHS I printed a reference number that they said will be sent to my mail but up till now I have not seen any mail with reference number.but during the cause of the IHS payment I printed a page containing the following

Application reference number 47545668( example)
Your IHS payment Reference is:IHS558566(example) please is this what am expected to get in my mail or is there more information

Phoenix77:
Good morning house I want to mail supporting docs to spouse so she can send off after my biometrics here...does anyone know the arrangement order and what and what I need to include.. because she will just be sending it off so I want to arrange everything already before it gets to her. Thanks

mamarazi1:
Guys please I am in a dilemma here... We submitted my husband's application online yesterday, all payments sorted, we applied for Priority Settlement. His biometric is 5th Dec at Ikeja. The appointment confirmation email we received states he should bring printed online application, payments confirmation and supporting documents on the day of appointment. The worry is that I have all of the supporting documents with me in UK and I plan to send them directly to Sheffield from within UK. I don't know if they will turn him back at Visa application centre for not going with the supporting documents. I have been worried thinking about this. Help!!!

Aphrodite007:


Well I think it’s safer to get the documents mailed to you in the UK then you mail everything to Sheffield yourself. It is better to guarantee that the documents have gotten to them than have them scan the documents and then some important pages would now be missing.

I know the price is outrageous but my dear, little price to pay to be with your partner.

Please did they keep his passport or tell him to mail it too? So all they wanted was just to scan the data page of the passport, no other document at all? Not even for sighting? I just want to know whether to just walk in with my passport or carry all my docs along for my biometrics. Thanks

deebaby05:
I actually wanted the experts to talk first.lol.

When we went for biometrics, if you see the bag with all our documents (myself and 3 kids), you 'll think that we are travelling but we were told to send everything to Sheffield. They didn't even scan 1 page. What i was told was that all documents, Originals and copies should be sent directly to Sheffield for settlement application. They only collected our passports and proof of payment which was on the first page of our application print out.

But I don't know if there is a settlement scan service under added services which you can pay for.Your hubby might have to find that out at the VAC.

Lexusgs430:


From my Limited understanding, majority of the documentations are submitted in the UK. The only documents submitted in Lagos are, the applicants passport, Biometrics copy of sponsors passport, TB Certs and I sabi spoke engrish certificate .......

All other documents gets submitted to sheffield .......

phatbaby1:
Dear House,
I have been reading all the messages here about the UK spouse visa and they are encouraging thank you. I have a question about scan and send service. I live in the UK and my spouse is applying in Lagos. Can I send some documents from here while he still uses the scan service in Lagos? The guidance doesn't make clear if you can use both. It only talks about using either.

Thank you in advance for your help.