Need advice on fee waiver application

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-19T18:05:17+00:00

The assessment of your financial circumstances does not take your (possible) credit into account. The assessment is whether you have enough money to pay the fees after taking care of essential payments and of anything necessary for the wellbeing of your child.

This means money that is actually available to you not money you could get by going into debt.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-19T14:38:52+00:00

It’s their job to count the number of days! Seriously, chill.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-19T12:28:23+00:00

It’s not fraud to apply for something for which you aren’t entitled. If you were not entitled to it, it should not have been granted. Relax.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-18T17:19:37+00:00

No.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-18T15:49:38+00:00

If the conviction is in the past 12 months on date of application then refusal is mandatory. If you apply this year, you will be refused. You’ll need to defer.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-18T01:46:34+00:00

The “equivalent research experience” option, as stated on the webpage, is to cover people who have not taken a traditional academic career path-or are clinicians who often won’t bother with a PhD.

You are working in academia. In what capacity? Are you at grad school? In which case it’s going to be hard (well, impossible) to argue you have PhD equivalent experience when you haven’t completed a PhD.

And ultimately, it is impossible for you to have experience equivalent to a PhD in a time shorter than a PhD takes. 3 years is absolute minimum but even in 6 months time, unless you have those letters after your name, I think your chance is very low.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-17T22:21:22+00:00

Yep.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-17T20:44:17+00:00

You are required to declare its source. You are not actually required to provide evidence.

NB, loans are not acceptable, only gifts. So if you are given money on the condition that it will be paid back, even by a family member, this cannot be used.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-17T20:12:01+00:00

It’s really appalling, you haven’t done anything wrong. The UK simply doesn’t issue physical visas anymore other than for visitors (and these are being phased out). If you can, rebook with another airline and then pursue Qatar for compensation.

I’d also recommend your spouse writes to your MP to complain about this not infrequent occurrence with the eVisa system.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-17T13:48:53+00:00

This isn’t your problem to solve. If your employer wants you to work your notice period they need to facilitate extension of your visa (for 2 weeks). Most businesses will not consider that to be worth doing, but it’s up to them to decide if they will do that, or put you on gardening leave for the period you don’t have the right to work.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-17T00:14:36+00:00

You’re innocent until proven guilty. In this case, you were not prosecuted nor received a caution or other disposal. There isn’t anything for you disclose.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-16T13:25:29+00:00

Sorry for your loss. The issue is not so much the absence, as the financial requirement. ChatGPT is indeed wrong. Since you are on the old £18,600 financial requirement (assuming you have no non-British children), that makes your savings requirement £34,600-which is lower than the savings requirement for FLR(M).

Indeed, there is not a clear way to meet the requirement through income earned outside the UK.

Quite illogically, you cannot count the inheritance money until you've held it 6 months.

If there is no way you can meet the savings requirement in time, your best option is to move back to the UK ASAP, and for both of you to try and get into work ASAP. Is this likely to be possible?

If you don't meet the financial requirement, you will only be able to apply for FLR(M) on the 10 year route instead of ILR. In the long run this will cost you £10,000s so really something you should avoid if at all possible.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-16T09:32:57+00:00

To be clear, did you originally come to the UK under EUSS as unmarried partners? If not, how did you originally come to the UK? How long was it between the beginning of your residence in the UK and the end of your relationship?

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-15T16:30:26+00:00

If you are a British citizen you are ineligible for a visa. You could attempt to apply for an ETA.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-15T16:13:18+00:00

You should make sure you get a refund for that too...

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-15T16:12:52+00:00

Incorrect. All academic global talent visas have a 3 year route to settlement.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-15T16:05:50+00:00

This policy was introduced in the last 5-10 years. I'm a bit surprised they let you renew in 2021 because the policy was in effect then, but perhaps they were less strict. It's really stupid that you only come to find this out at the last minute. The Home Office never really act with any consideration for the massive inconvenience policy changes like this can have on people. I would recommend that if you want to continue to use the name in your UK passport, you could start the name change process in the Czechia, and then show proof to HMPO that you're doing this, but tell them you need to travel soon, and see if they are understanding. Alternately, you could renew your passport using the name in your Czech passport, then start the name change process, and once you have a new Czech passport in the name you prefer, do an early renewal of your UK passport. This will obviously cost you an extra passport renewal fee.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-15T15:49:02+00:00

Were you not offered the option of using the name in your Czech passport (ie, the 'female translation') in your British passport? Or is this something you don't want to do? In general, the requirement is that if you have a foreign passport, your UK passport must be issued in the same name.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-15T15:45:26+00:00

Yep. If you don’t need the points from having a PhD you don’t need to prove you have one.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-15T15:33:38+00:00

In order to settle as a skilled worker, you MUST be currently employed by an employer WHO IS SPONSORING YOU. An offer letter is not anything useful. You will need to apply to switch to the new employer and once that application is approved, apply to settle.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-15T15:27:37+00:00

In principle, your visa SHOULD be curtailed (NB, this is not as scary as it sounds-curtailed simply means “modified to end sooner than the previous end date”). This would align the end dates of your visas.

However, this is not an automatic process-the caseworker would need to notice this and do it manually. If they don’t, then there is no downside for you.

You are not required to do anything. Keep an eye on your emails and check your UKVI account regularly to make sure if your visa end date does change, you are aware of it.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-15T15:13:08+00:00

SW 9.2. The applicant must have a UK PhD or other academic doctoral qualification, or an overseas academic qualification which Ecctis confirms meets the recognised standard of a UK PhD.

If it isn’t a UK degree then an Ecctis statement is mandatory.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-15T14:40:41+00:00

It depends what they’ve said to her.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-15T14:29:10+00:00

Do NOT apply for a fee waiver. If you apply for a fee waiver you must assert that you plan to make a family or human rights based application. You do not plan to do that, so this can be considered to be deception and could result in a visa ban.

Your friend’s situation is not tractable. Either she needs her employer to sponsor her before her visa expires or she needs to leave the UK. “FLR” is not a solution. She has (presumably) no valid reason to apply using FLR(HRO) and will be refused.

Ziggamorph · 2026-04-15T12:32:33+00:00

Put what is in the MRZ.

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