Immigrating to the UK

Looks like we might move our timeline up by two months, to May '24. If my wife's spousal visa isn't renewed. We're headed out to UK end of the month and when we come back, she'll get another 90 days - which we will extend for an additional 90 days. That takes us to May.

At some point in the next few months I think we'll have to decided if May is a go for us or not, depending if her visa comes soon.

I'm thinking if we don't have it by January - we need to set May as the deadline to move.

Is 5 months enough time though?

How long has it taken some of you who have moved, to do the move one things were set in motion?
 
Priapus said:
Looks like we might move our timeline up by two months, to May '24. If my wife's spousal visa isn't renewed. We're headed out to UK end of the month and when we come back, she'll get another 90 days - which we will extend for an additional 90 days. That takes us to May.

At some point in the next few months I think we'll have to decided if May is a go for us or not, depending if her visa comes soon.

I'm thinking if we don't have it by January - we need to set May as the deadline to move.

Is 5 months enough time though?

How long has it taken some of you who have moved, to do the move one things were set in motion?
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Really depends what you moving, but was really fast for us. we didnt ship anything over except a few sentimental items on someone elses cargo box.
I got a job offer and flew in about 45 days with just a suitcase
 
Priapus said:
Looks like we might move our timeline up by two months, to May '24. If my wife's spousal visa isn't renewed. We're headed out to UK end of the month and when we come back, she'll get another 90 days - which we will extend for an additional 90 days. That takes us to May.

At some point in the next few months I think we'll have to decided if May is a go for us or not, depending if her visa comes soon.

I'm thinking if we don't have it by January - we need to set May as the deadline to move.

Is 5 months enough time though?

How long has it taken some of you who have moved, to do the move one things were set in motion?
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we abstracted the house sale from the process - got that done and sorted first, got the shipping company to pack up everything we were taking and put it into storage until we told them to move it, then camped with family. This would have been mid november.
Applied for a few jobs, got an offer in Jan, start date mid Feb. Did the visa application at this point as we were basing it on income not savings, and I flew out mid feb. Wife's visa came through late may, she flew mid June.
 
syntax said:
Really depends what you moving, but was really fast for us. we didnt ship anything over except a few sentimental items on someone elses cargo box.
I got a job offer and flew in about 45 days with just a suitcase
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We're not shipping anything over, except the animals.

Sinbad said:
we abstracted the house sale from the process - got that done and sorted first, got the shipping company to pack up everything we were taking and put it into storage until we told them to move it, then camped with family. This would have been mid november.
Applied for a few jobs, got an offer in Jan, start date mid Feb. Did the visa application at this point as we were basing it on income not savings, and I flew out mid feb. Wife's visa came through late may, she flew mid June.
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Fortunately we don't need the house sold, before we move. So that's one less worry.

My wife would need to find a job first before I do the visa application - how long did your wife's visa take?

I'm not optimistic my wife's spousal visa will be with us anytime soon from what I am hearing and we figure that there is no point her leaving in May to avoid a possible ban, only to return again and for us to all leave in July - seems unnecessary and expensive.

5 months seems like it might be doable then -it's get getting her a job + visa + dogs that take all the time I think - oh and finding a rental.

Ugh, it's a lot....
 
Priapus said:
My wife would need to find a job first before I do the visa application - how long did your wife's visa take?
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TLS transferred her application to UKVI on 24 Feb
9 April they contacted her stating they had mandatory checks to do, and these were beginning
27 April they asked for evidence of funding/job/savings
Picked up visa on 17 May

Remember though this was at the height of Covid, so they were short staffed and there was also barely anyone travelling, so your mileage may vary
 
Sinbad said:
TLS transferred her application to UKVI on 24 Feb
9 April they contacted her stating they had mandatory checks to do, and these were beginning
27 April they asked for evidence of funding/job/savings
Picked up visa on 17 May

Remember though this was at the height of Covid, so they were short staffed and there was also barely anyone travelling, so your mileage may vary
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Current processing times on the website is six months.

Thanks.
 
Paul Kemp said:
You sure? Family should be 8 weeks. Ours took 10weeks during Covid stuff. And it’s pretty much to the day.
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Yup - 24 weeks

Though I guess that's just means, it can take as long as that.

I initially planned visa to take 3 months - submit in April and be out by July. But if we need to leave in May - I need to submit Feb or March.
 
Paul Kemp said:
Weird. I’m probably on the wrong page.

Edit: yes I’m an idiot as usual, was looking at inside UK.
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Yeah, different processing times in you're in the UK.

I assume yours was 10 weeks, outside the UK?
 
Priapus said:
Yeah, different processing times in you're in the UK.

I assume yours was 10 weeks, outside the UK?
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Correct, in 2021. Applied in October, received in December. 72 days, 15 minutes and 34 seconds :)
 
Priapus said:
Looks like we might move our timeline up by two months, to May '24. If my wife's spousal visa isn't renewed. We're headed out to UK end of the month and when we come back, she'll get another 90 days - which we will extend for an additional 90 days. That takes us to May.

At some point in the next few months I think we'll have to decided if May is a go for us or not, depending if her visa comes soon.

I'm thinking if we don't have it by January - we need to set May as the deadline to move.

Is 5 months enough time though?

How long has it taken some of you who have moved, to do the move one things were set in motion?
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We planned and saved for over a year, getting all our documents in a line and making sure we had enough funds.

For ancestral visa, after we applied it took 2 weeks to get our visas/passports back.
For us, we got across in 4 months of getting the visas (selling most things and putting what we want to keep in storage)
 
I sent off my drivers license to DVLA last week. So now I am just waiting the 3-4 weeks for my UK drivers license to arrive.
The way things just work here is awesome, but you get no feedback while the stuff is being processed so you just have to wait until it arrives.
 
killerbyte said:
I sent off my drivers license to DVLA last week. So now I am just waiting the 3-4 weeks for my UK drivers license to arrive.
The way things just work here is awesome, but you get no feedback while the stuff is being processed so you just have to wait until it arrives.
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How much of a mind**** is it driving around with no license and no worries about that?
 
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