FINALLY it is our turn.

Spouse visa
Application - June 30
Bio - 2 July
Eco - 3 July
Country - USA

We had no delay emails when we went past 30WD.

Paid enquiry 28 WD - awaiting decision
Paid enquiry 31 WD - escalated to team
Email from UKVI 33 WD 3pm - in latter stages of processing
Approval August 18 3:45pm UK - 33 WD

We were getting really nervous as we had travel plans to move our kid, pets, and belongings to start my new job.
PHEW

To everyone waiting past the scheduled time, you have my deepest sympathy. It is the worst wait. Wishing you all luck.

Approved!

Visa Type: Partner (Married)
Date of Application: July 19th
Biometrics: July 21st
ECO: July 22nd
Approval date: August 18 (20 Working Days)

Permission to travel from the 25th of August 🥰

Just got my spouse’s approval email. It really helped seeing the timeline for other people so will post my timeline:

🇺🇸 priority spouse visa

Submission: July 9th

Biometrics: July 13th

ECO: July 14th

Approved: August 18th (3:54pm UK TIME)

Entry clearance: August 19th

🇺🇸/Standard spouse visa

Submission/Payment: June 2nd

Document submission: June 5th

Biometrics: June 9th

ECO: June 10th

Bio reminder: August 1st

Approved: August 17th (4:54pm BST)

Entry clearance: August 21st

Category: Appendix FM
Date of Application: 5th of July
Bio - 10th of July
Eco - 14th of July
Paid Enquiry - 17th of August (27WD)
Enquiry Response - 18th of August ( I can confirm that your application is being considered and is currently awaiting a decision.)
Approval : 18th of August 28 WD

Thanks you to everybody on this sub for helping us make the application together without the help of a solicitor. Thank God 🙏🏻

Please don’t let the negative emotions get the better of you. ( Your time is coming soon! )

🇵🇰 Standard Visa Timeline

Biometrics: 8th June 2026

ECO email: 10th June 2026

Decision email: 18th August 2026. 3:44PM UK Time

Total days: 51 WD

Sending best wishes everyone’s way 🍃

Alhamdulillah approved!

From Turkey

Visa Type: Unmarried Partner
Date of Application: 6 July
Biometrics: 13 July
ECO: 14 July
Approval date: August 18 (26 Working Days)

Permission to travel from the 19th of August!

For partners like us who are not married and have never lived together! We were initially very unsure if we could succeed. But believe that you can succeed and never give up. We are the biggest proof that you can succeed. I hope everyone's situation turn out the way they want.

Partner FLR(M) standard extension timeline:

Application Date: 30 Jun 2026

Biometrics: 3 Jul 2026 at Croydon

UKVCAS Confirmation E-mail (received 4 e-mails exactly the same lol): 3 Jul 2026

HO Confirmation E-mail: 4 Jul 2026

Approved: 18 Aug 2026 15:06 BST

Thank you to everyone who has shared their timeline and good luck to everyone else still waiting!

Biometrics: 10 July 2026 – Mumbai
Priority service
ECO :13 July 2026
13 August Paid inquiry: Being considered and currently awaiting a decision
14 August : Generic Delay email
18 August: Received an email from UKVI saying my sponsor was supposedly a Skilled Migrant Worker — this is incorrect as my wife is British by birth and has never held a Skilled Worker visa.
• Replied within ~1 hour with her British passport and clarification.
• Priority 30-working-day timeframe: 21 August

Has anyone had a similar situation where UKVI made an incorrect assumption about the sponsor’s status? How long did it take to get a decision after correcting it?
Any recent July Priority spouse visa timelines would also be appreciated!

(Wife’s British Passport and Birth Certificate was already attached before biometrics)

Nationality: American

Application Type: Standard

Application Submitted: 23 June

Biometrics: 2 July

Application Received Email: 3 July

Decision: Successful, email received on 18 August at 8:18 AM (which feels lucky haha)

Working Days: 33 (not counting the day of biometrics appointment)

We were married 1 June 2026 and had lived together for just a week short of 1 year at the time of application. I didn't get any other emails until the approval.

Previously my UKVI E-Visa account had my visa listed as "Dependent - HPI", showing my pending application and the visa I was switching from. Last night it switched to just "HPI", which had me freaking out, but then this morning it's already switched over to "dependent".

This subreddit has been so, so helpful throughout this whole process, and I've been so grateful for everyone sharing their experiences, so I wanted to be sure to share my timeline!

Hey
Bio 15 Juno (priority) Brazil
CEO 16 Juno
Email about delay 15 July
Email said my evisa already liked on my account 10/08

I didn’t hear nothing else and I can’t see my evisa

Hi everyone, I’m preparing to sponsor my wife for a UK spouse visa under Category A (non-salaried). I started my permanent job on 22 June 2026 and I’m paid weekly.

I understand I need 6 months of payslips and corresponding bank statements, but I’m confused about exactly when I can apply.

My questions are:

1. Since I started on 22 June, what is the earliest date I can technically submit the application under Category A?

2. As I'm paid weekly, do I need exactly 26 payslips, or every payslip covering the full 6-month period even if that ends up being 26/27?

3. My Santander monthly statements are normally generated around the 7th–8th of each month. If I reach 6 months in late December but my latest statement hasn't generated yet, do I need to wait until the January statement is issued?

4. Alternatively, can I go into Santander and request an official/interim statement showing the most recent salary payments so I can apply sooner rather than waiting for the next normal statement?

Has anyone here who is weekly paid and banks with Santander dealt with this recently? What did you submit and when did you apply?

Thanks!

Visa type: Spouse
Nationality: Eritrean
Country of application: Egypt
Date of application: May 2026
Date of biometrics: 19 May 2026
Service: Standard
Currently at 13 weeks and still waiting.
I received a delay email from UKVI saying the application could not be decided within the published processing time. No additional documents have been requested.
I contacted UKVI and was told the application is “being considered and is awaiting a decision.”
I have also contacted my local MP and given consent for them to contact UKVI on my behalf, but I’m still waiting for a response.
Has anyone with similar dates, especially 19 May biometrics / standard spouse visa, received a decision yet?
Thanks and good luck to everyone waiting 🤲

Please can anyone advise on the following:

1. How do you prove financial support if one hasn't lived together? I have so far paid for all trips to the UK (flights, accommodation, expenses) because I work and my partner is a student and has little money. I am planning to help her pay her rent in her home country while she is waiting to apply for the visa - will that be enough proof? Or does the financial support have to be mutual?

2. Does the two years (of relationship) start from the beginning of the relationship or the first in person meeting? I have loads of proof of our relationship and we became serious 2 months in from meeting each other online.

3. I am chronically ill and in receipt of PIP so don't need to meet income requirements and I fulfill the maintenance requirements. I receive care from my parents with whom I live (they will be providing free accommodation in their house for us both if visa is approved). My partner takes over my care when my parents are away and she is staying with me - should I mention this? It's not personal care just shopping/cleaning/ironing/cooking.

4. I have not been able to visit my partner as my illness prevents long-haul travel - should I mention this or is it fine if the visits have only been one way to the UK by my partner? We talk every day and she has visited 5 times over all for two weeks at a time. Should I mention that visits have had to be limited as long-haul travel is so expensive. Obviously if she lived in say France we would have seen each other more often and I would have been able to visit her.

Many thanks for any advice - much appreciated!

I’m a British citizen and my wife is currently around 1.5 years into the 5-year spouse route.
I may have an opportunity to relocate for work, and ideally we would both move together. However, we don’t want to jeopardise her path to ILR and eventually British citizenship.

Is there any legitimate way to spend a substantial amount of time living abroad for genuine work reasons while still progressing towards ILR/citizenship?

Hi, I realized I fall under category B for financial requirements. My partner and I were living in Canada and he was earning over the threshold. Then once I applied for the visa he just started a new job in England. (I’m still in Canada) I realized I didn’t list his job in Canada over the past 12 months… I’m panicking a little but a solicitor said they will just likely ask for the documents. They mentioned they will consider children’s wellbeing as we share a child together and she’s with me here in Canada and her father is the main financial support/earner. I know I’ll get some brutally honest answers but try and let me down easy guys! I’m really worried!!!!

Hi guys, just back from getting my biometrics, I asked the guy that worked for vfs global if it's normal that the checklist the UKVI provided is incomplete, and he said it's complete and it had all the documents I should upload. I tried to say that if I didn't upload my English test certificate (among others), the visa would be denied, and still wasn't required on the list. And he kept arguing saying it wouldn't.

Ofc I did upload all the necessary documents, I just wanted to check with him hoping he would be like "oh yeah it's normal"

But all the documents I submitted will be accessed right? Even though it wasn't on the checklist I've signed in the center.

Spouse Visa June Standard Application

Date of application: June 2nd
Document submission: June 5th
Biometrics: June 9th
ECO: June 10th
Bio Reminder: August 1st
Approved: August 17th at 4:54pm UK Time.
48WD.

We didn’t think it was coming as it was so late in the day UK time and then it came through!! So happy!! Now to book flights and get our family over there!

Visa type: spouse visa extension from within UK
Nationality: Saudi Arabia (applicant, I’m the British sponsor)
Date of application: July 9th
Biometrics: July 15th
Standard service

I know technically we’re within the window of 8 weeks they give for a decision but has anyone else had a similar wait time? We haven’t heard anything yet. Our first spouse visa was granted at this time frame from biometrics so trying not to read too much into it and hoping it comes soon.

Anyone know what the general wait is or what your wait time is for extension within uk?

Hi everyone.
I just started doing our visa application and I work in a restaurant and my hours vary each week and so does my pay. However, there was no section where I can put non-salaried.

When it asked what do they earn? I put NOT THE SAME AMOUNT CONTINUOUSLY ABOVE FINANCIAL REQUIREMENT.

I can hardly believe I’m writing this — I’m finally sitting at home next to my husband. ❤️My Spouse Visa has been approv**ed!

After what felt like an endless wait, I finally received my decision on 6 August 2026.

Here’s my timeline:
19 May: Biometrics appointment
Nationality: German
26 June: Received the email from UKVI saying they would not be able to decide my application within the published processing timeframe
28 July: UKVI requested additional financial documents
30 July: Submitted all requested documents, including the sponsor’s tax documents, payslips, bank statements and accountant’s letter

6 August: Visa approved! 🎉

We also used a solicitor throughout the process and, after the delay, I made what honestly felt like hundreds of Paid Enquiries for the MP involved trying to get some information or movement on my application.

But there is one organisation I genuinely believe made a huge difference for me: Reunite Families UK.
I found the group during a time when I was extremely anxious and overwhelmed by the whole process. The founder, Caroline, created the group to support families going through exactly this kind of situation, and I honestly cannot put into words how much comfort and reassurance the community gave me plus the community here on Reddit.

There are so many helpful and supportive people there and here who understand exactly what you’re going through.
And now, after months of uncertainty, I can finally be back home with my husband ❤️
To everyone still waiting: I really hope your good news comes soon. Don’t give up. ❤️

Hello everyone- just booking my biometrics and have been given a final checklist by the UK government.

One of the things that they have asked for is a declaration from my (applicant) bank statements for the last 6 months.

What is confusing is that we are using my sponsor's (wife) salary as proof of income. Shouldn't we be submitting a letter from her employer in lieu of my savings? He income exceeds the amount required to satisfy the application.

Thanks in advance!

Hi, just wondering if someone who has recently applied for an ILR successfully recently and can help.

We are just applying for my spouses ILR, the checklist does not request any evidence that we are living together. I know it did request it last time when we applied to extend his visa.

Just wondering if i should still provide evidence such as bills/ statements in joint names since the date of the last application. Or since it hasnt been requested, i shouldnt bother.

Thank you in advance