How To Avoid Refusal of Spouse Visa for UK

15 TIPS How to avoid refusal of spouse visa for UK

There are many ways to avoid a possible refusal of spouse visa for the UK, grounds might have different from the others or likely similar too, but how can you battle to present the application that would have a better chance of the approval than a refusal? Here are some tips of information on which you may use to prepare on to your application. You may wish also to check out our TIPS When applying for Visit Visa to the UK

1. Check which route would best apply to you i.e. Family permit (Surinder Singh) or Spouse/Partner of a person settled in the UK/Citizen.
2. If you choose to apply for an Entry Clearance as Spouse or Partner for a route such as 2.5 years, one must have a valid application, make sure all the necessary documents as to evidence your genuine relationship is genuine and subsisting, the case officer will scrutinize as a whole if the relationship is genuine or not
3. The more evidence of documents the better, but the consistency, accuracy and credibility of the documents are the primary concern, that is material for your application. Avoid presenting documents or evidence that is not relevant to your claim to evidence a particular requirement which might bring confusion to the officer
4. Provide a submission letter to your application as possible and arrange your documents depending on how you would like to see it by the case officer for example you put Annexure of it
5. Never withhold any relevant information from your previous and current circumstances. Recheck all the information you have provided online on your visa application page and review them all together prior to the submission
6. There should not be a record of the offense or conviction of the applicant (unless the penalty or punishment of that office has rendered and served, and a period of 5 or 10 years have passed  since the end of the sentence (depending on the weight of the offense/conviction)
7. Do not fail to provide additional information if there is a request of the case officer to provide additional information or to provide medical report
8. Provide evidence as that of the English requirement is met (unless you are exempt)
9. Don’t try to provide or declare false information or documents submitted, or fabricate the documents in relation to your application for the purpose to enter and remain in the UK, it is better to declare the information or documents are unobtainable, lost, in nature rather than providing a fabricated one
10. The financial requirement must be met E-ECP.3.1, E.LTRP.3.1 and therefore the applicant should not recourse to the public funds
11. There is strong documentation that the applicant will live permanently with his/her sponsor in the UK
12. If your sponsor declared that the financial requirement is met, through a combination of certain  category such as;

• Category A – salaried and non salaried for a person in the UK for a period of 6 months or more. With the combination of your Category C- Source of income from non employment, e.g.,  Rental income, interest from the bank, stocks or bands and etc. Or with the combination of Category D- Cash savings in the bank
• These combinations may apply depending on the situation of the sources of your sponsor in the UK, as to meet the financial requirement, however a clear sources and valid requisites of documents should support the sources of the upper mentioned income or savings

13. Recheck the bank statements if they are in a valid format as required by the guidance of the financial requirement for a family member, bank statements should cover the period for which the income is relied upon
14. The applicant/sponsor must not submit the sources of funds/income derived from: third party, loans or credit, income from related benefits, job seeker’s allowance, incapacity allowance, child benefit, working tax credit, employment support allowance (or equivalent), universal credit, unemployment allowance – because these are not permitted as sources to meet the financial requirement
15. Provide the original and photocopy of each of the documents as required and check them again if the information listed is clear and readable enough to understand in English

One may choose to appeal the application if you are being told to do so, as usually the refusal letter comes with the appeal form (which may take some time to get the decision) Or the same goes, by with the request for the administrative review within the 28 days of the issuance of refusal (in case you are permitted), wherein you can point out the viable points were the reasons of refusal is due to some error, or overlooking of the documents by the case officer. Contact Visa Online Assistance at info@visaonlineassistance.com for the reapplication of a refused visa to the U.K, click here.