This weeks been filled within running through hoops to get all our paper work; photographs and evidence properly resorted for refiling for my visa application. I've become slightly paranoid wanting to recheck everything they state they wanted. Guess I don't want my forms to be halted any more. Just want it sorted.
First up was getting an American sized passport photograph - of course it was super-sized by being 2" squared and therefore required going to a photo studio to get them taken and developed. This trip coincided with hitting the streets the day of a HUGE downpour (the first of the week) so I look rather drench and ragged. I would post it on here but I look like a convict, but its got to the point of not caring what it looks like.
With finance visas you have to photographically prove your relationship - mostly by having photographs taken within 6 months of the visa processing date - for us that's anything six months before January 2011. Its kind of hard trying to switch your mind to being analytical about your pictures when trying to remember dates and times. Not only that but having the person who did the initial filing - to have photocopied proof of travelling/visiting the other partner. That means photocopying passport stamps, boarding passes, tickets. Its good luck we'd managed to keep any of these things, yet alone be able to find them.
Its weird seeing pictures of yourself as evidence, all the pictures were only from last August but they seem a life time away. I guess if we knew properly how long this would of all taken we'd of filed the papers straight after these holidays or just have got married in March.
Hindsight is a marvellous thing, we just have to focus in this step for now.
Hindsight is a marvellous thing, we just have to focus in this step for now.