Are you living in Ireland on Stamp 4 and visit UK on a short term tourist visa? This article can help you with that.
You can find the online application here. The one thing that annoys me about the UK application is the ten year travel history. For which they do not even ask to submit any documentation. All your recent travel history can be seen from your passport anyway so maybe that is why they don’t ask for all previous visa’s etc.
Highly recommended is that you make one sponsor, to save from duplicate documentation. Like if a husband is the primary source of income he will be the sponsor for the children and the wife.
In my case both of us were working. But I mentioned that since my account balance is a bit low, I will ask my husband for some finance but now I had to submit his financial statements along with his letter
Stamp 4 is not permanent residency!
List of documents submitted for prime sponsor:
- Proof of income i.e. three months salary statements
- Bank statement
- I also submitted our mortgage statement
- Copy of IRP
List of documents for children:
- birth certificate
- letter from sponsor stating they will cover all expenses of the trip
- I also submitted a letter from school (due to reason listed below)
- Since the Irish immigration authority have suspended the re-entry visas for minors, you might not be able to prove that they can legally live here, so I took a print out of this web page and saved as pdf.
List of documents for spouse
- Marriage certificate
- letter from sponsor stating they will cover all expenses of the trip
- three months salary slips
- bank statement
- Copy IRP
Tips:
- Sponsor can make just one letter and attach with all applications
- All below mentioned documents for family member should be attached with all applications
- If you are visiting a family member or a friend in UK
- proof of relationship like birth certificate of both in case of sibling
- I submitted FRC as it is a family certificate (For Pakistanis only)
- Family’s rights to live in UK, like copy of passport or visa
- Invitation letter form the family, it should contains all names of the people visiting along with some description of the house, if you are staying with them
- Preferably bank statements or utility bill as proof of residence
- Rental agreement or mortgage statement about the house.
TLSContact Appointment for family
- If you do not request for any value added services, they will not charge for any fee.
- I selected the self service so I uploaded all documents my self.
- For family appointments, they recommend Flexi appointment, frankly that is too expensive. So the idea is to book for standard application, for each application. If you will book something way in the future you will find the slots. We were five people to I booked two for 1:30 pm each, 3 for 2 pm and then the third one for 2:30 pm. Once you are inside the application center, they don’t really look at the time 🙂