Quick Question From Me again! lol

[FallintoShadow 0]

Hello all. Hope everyone is having a lovely Holiday Season!

I am heading to England this Friday for the first time! I AM SO SUPER EXCITED!

ANYWHO.

DCF is the path my fiance and I have chosen to take.

Now, when he and I get married, WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE FIRST FORM we are supposed to file?

I know it's a spousal visa, with me going to the U.K. But what is the proper name, and where might I find it? Can it be downloaded/printed out or do I need to send off for it by mail?

THANKS SO MUCH!

~Cassandra

[pushbrk 12,899]

Hello all. Hope everyone is having a lovely Holiday Season!

I am heading to England this Friday for the first time! I AM SO SUPER EXCITED!

ANYWHO.

DCF is the path my fiance and I have chosen to take.

Now, when he and I get married, WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE FIRST FORM we are supposed to file?

I know it's a spousal visa, with me going to the U.K. But what is the proper name, and where might I find it? Can it be downloaded/printed out or do I need to send off for it by mail?

THANKS SO MUCH!

~Cassandra

How is it you concluded DCF was the way to go without reading the guides that would have answered your question above? Start by clicking on the word Guides at the top of any page.

[Liebi 0]

You can download all forms and fill them out on the computer, then print them. Check the guides for the downloads, like said above. You need to start with I-130.

One question: You say you want to do DCF with your fiance living in London but it doesn't sound like you are a resident in the UK? So you are heading over there to get married and become a resident and then, after living there for 6 months, file for DCF and apply for a C1 visa after I-130 gets appoved? Am I getting this right?

[FallintoShadow 0]

You can download all forms and fill them out on the computer, then print them. Check the guides for the downloads, like said above. You need to start with I-130.

One question: You say you want to do DCF with your fiance living in London but it doesn't sound like you are a resident in the UK? So you are heading over there to get married and become a resident and then, after living there for 6 months, file for DCF and apply for a C1 visa after I-130 gets appoved? Am I getting this right?

What I am doing is....

Getting married here in the U.S. to my wonderful U.K. fiance.

Then we are going back to the U.K. to do all the required forms. Before moving back here.

So I have all the information I need, except for the name of the first form I need to fill out....which is the VISA for me to stay and work in the U.K. as a spouse.

[MargotDarko 0]

You can download all forms and fill them out on the computer, then print them. Check the guides for the downloads, like said above. You need to start with I-130.

One question: You say you want to do DCF with your fiance living in London but it doesn't sound like you are a resident in the UK? So you are heading over there to get married and become a resident and then, after living there for 6 months, file for DCF and apply for a C1 visa after I-130 gets appoved? Am I getting this right?

What I am doing is....

Getting married here in the U.S. to my wonderful U.K. fiance.

Then we are going back to the U.K. to do all the required forms. Before moving back here.

So I have all the information I need, except for the name of the first form I need to fill out....which is the VISA for me to stay and work in the U.K. as a spouse.

I am not understanding your intended plan, but it sounds like you're not fully understanding the process.

You are not currently married, correct? You are going to England just for a visit for now, correct? And then you'll both come back to the US to marry? The UK spousal visa now takes longer than it used to. You used to be able to go in person and get it the same day, but now it must be by post and can take several weeks, during which time you'll need to remain in the US. Once you obtain it, you will not be able to file any US forms in London until you have lived in the UK for six months on your new visa.

[Liebi 0]

Sory, I didn't mean to point you in the wrong direction, for the DCF process form I-130 still is the one to start with, but of course, to be able to do DCF you need the UK visa to stay and especially work there first. Thought you did that already. I haven't heard of many people doing it this way but I wish you all the best on your journey and hope things will work out for you and your fiance. I guess you chose this route to be able to be with your man while waiting for his visa to come bak to the US instead of spending months and months apart?

[MargotDarko 0]

I went back and read your other post. I had forgotten all about that! Please ignore most of my previous comment here. You do seem to understand! So I am assuming that you are about to go to England just for a visit and then he will come to the US with you, get married, and then return to the UK? After you're married, here's where you start for the UK visa -

http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pa...d=1018721067257

It says you can apply in person, but I am quite confident that what you do now is apply online, print everything off, and then send it in with your supporting documents. Also, ignore the info on that page about EEA family permits - that's not relevant for you.

Also, they've started doing biometrics stuff, so here's a link explaining that -

http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pa...d=1165344659165

For immigration from the US to the UK, here's a good site - http://www.uk-yankee.com/

It is different now, but I still think it doesn't take more than about a month to get the UK spousal visa. Then after you've been in the UK on that visa for six months, you can file the I-130 with the London USCIS office. You can stay in the UK the whole time. The process of getting your new husband the CR1 visa through London should not take more than six months, but it means you should plan on at least one year in the UK. Hope that helps!

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

It says you can apply in person, but I am quite confident that what you do now is apply online, print everything off, and then send it in with your supporting documents. Also, ignore the info on that page about EEA family permits - that's not relevant for you.

I hate to doubt you, as you usually turn out to be right, but i believe that they still allow applications in person.

The way that it works is you fill out the form online, right at the very end it asks if you'll be applying in person or by post. Then if you're applying in person it give details and your application number so you can arrange an appointment. The appointments are ususally in the following 2 weeks I believe.

by the way OP, you can fill out the form, save it and go back another time to finish it. Also if you opt to pay later and not when you fill out the form, there is no penalty to filling out the form again, and getting a new application number. I ended up doing it 3 times when I realised that I needed to change some of the info i gave.

[MargotDarko 0]

It says you can apply in person, but I am quite confident that what you do now is apply online, print everything off, and then send it in with your supporting documents. Also, ignore the info on that page about EEA family permits - that's not relevant for you.

I hate to doubt you, as you usually turn out to be right, but i believe that they still allow applications in person.

The way that it works is you fill out the form online, right at the very end it asks if you'll be applying in person or by post. Then if you're applying in person it give details and your application number so you can arrange an appointment. The appointments are ususally in the following 2 weeks I believe.

by the way OP, you can fill out the form, save it and go back another time to finish it. Also if you opt to pay later and not when you fill out the form, there is no penalty to filling out the form again, and getting a new application number. I ended up doing it 3 times when I realised that I needed to change some of the info i gave.

I am only quite confident about it because it's what someone on another forum who I find fairly reliable said that it has changed in the past two months. It's not something I know about from personal experience or from finding something official though.