Interview Guidance for UK Spouse Visa 

Applicants need to go through the process of interviewing when trying to get their desired UK spouse visa, which is under the UK family visa route. You need to face an interview with a case officer of UKVI (UK Visa and Immigration). The case office asks you some general questions about whether your marriage life is continuing and genuine. For your British spouse visa application, this interview is a very crucial stage, so you need to take care of this interview. 

You need to remember that not everyone will need to attend the interview for a UK Spouse Visa. When UK Visa and Immigration (UKVI) are concerned about your relationship at that time, you need to attend the interview. If UKVI has any doubt that your relationship is not genuine, then you need to face the interview for a United Kingdom spouse visa. There are many ways to hold the interview, for example, at the VAC or UKVCAS office (this can be applied if you are already in the UK) face to face, via video call or over the phone. 

There are a lot of controversy about the UK spouse visa processing time. For your concern we want to say you that the traditional time to processing of UK spouse visa within 3 months. When you are applying for the priority service it will takes 6 weeks to process. However, if the UK home office want to check the additional information like visa interview, the processing time can be longer. 

If you want to avoid the delay your application and want to get your desirable visa successfully. I would like to suggest you take an immigration lawyer help for your spouse visa UK from ICS Legal who have 19 years of working experience in this sector. 

Question and answer for UK spouse visa interview

When you attain the visa interview. The UKVI ECO will ask you some general questions about your spouse’s visa in the United Kingdom. The question will be about your marriage, in the given bellow we have mentioned some questions:

• The starting point of your relationship like since the period both know each other.
• The general question about the immigration history and family background.
• Your partner’s immigration history and family background.
• Agreement of your living 
• The agreement for your civil partner and marriage.
• Future plan of your partner.

There are some of the most common questions that you need to ask on your spouse visa interview, and they are:

• Have you applied for a UK visa before?
• Where is the location and time to first meet your partner?
• What is your partner occupation?
• How many times do both spend together?
• What is both of your conversational language?
• How are you maintaining contact with your partner?
• Have you already met with your partner’s family?
• Which thing does your partner’s family like most?
• How many family members are in your partner’s family, and what are their names?
• What is your partner religion?
• What is your opinion about your partner?
• Which thing do you like most about your wife?
• What is the most common thing within your partner?
• What is the reason to marry your partner?
• How were you proposing to your partner, and when?
• Have you any previous visa refusal records?

This is just a common question for your spouse’s visa in the UK. The Home Office case officer could ask you different types of question too. Please note that, your question can be different as per your relationship types and your recent circumstances. 

What do you need to take for a spouse visa interview?

We always suggest you take as much as possible supporting documentation for your interview. Because this supporting documentation will help them to check your application accurately. Generally, you can take with you: 

• Your spouse’s visa application copy
• A copy of the original documents that you were providing with your UK spouse visa application that includes:

• Your passport 
• Your partner’s permanent settlement proof or your partner’s passport.
• Your certificate of civil partnership or certificate of your marriage.
• You need to provide proof of evidence that will explain that both of you have spent at least 2 years together.
• Proof if both of you have been victims of any criminal activities.
• You need to provide the accommodation details that will help to figure out whether you are capable or not to maintain both of your accommodation costs.
• Proof of bank statement that explains you are meeting the financial requirements for a UK spouse visa.
• If you have any children, the children’s details.
• Details of the visiting country outside the UK.
• Bank statement for the last 6 months.
• Proof of the genuine relationship includes:

• Both Couple pictures
• Your chatting history with your partner
• You need to show the evidence of hotel booking, train ticket or flight, and photos of travel together. 
• A genuine relationship explanation letter from your friends or family. 

As a visa and immigration lawyer, we would like to suggest you that, you need to create an organising folder so that you can provide the required documents within a short time when case officer want. 

Missed an interview for UK spouse visa

Your UK visa refusal chances will be high, if you missed your spouse visa interview for the UK. Suppose you can understand that you cannot attain the interview for a spouse visa. As soon as possible, you need to contact the UKVI to change your interview date. You will be disappointed to know that the UKVI does not normally change the date of an interview. 

If you really want to avoid a spouse visa interview, the best way will be for you to contact ICS legal to prepare and submit an application for a spouse visa. As a professional legal agency, ICS Legal can understand what UK Visa and Immigration (UKVI) is looking for to verify the genuine and original relationship. ICS Legal will compile all the evidence that is necessary and will create a letter that will seek attention the UK Home Office.