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Hello again fellow applicants! I am beyond thrilled to update everyone here that my Fiancée visa has finally been approved!! I applied from Singapore, and this was my timeline:

Application submission: 13 Feb

Biometrics Appointment: 20 Feb

ECO email: 23 Feb

Application update email (them just saying that they aim to make a decision within the expected 12 weeks): 9 Mar

Reminder to book biometrics (auto-generated email that is to be ignored at this point) : 14 Apr

Approval Email: 12 May (4:11pm BST)

Intended Date of Arrival: 25 April

Entry Date Granted: 19 May

Total Processing Duration: 54 Working Days

I am so happy to be joining the February approval club, as I’ve been seeing so many Feb applicant approvals since late April (and especially since the start of this week!) and that gave me so much hope seeing that they were all being approved on average 50-54 working days so I was estimating that mine would take about the same time as well, and it did! 🥳

I am incredibly grateful to this community for all the updates and information that has greatly helped me with my own application and what to expect, which gave me some ease of mind without the full use of a solicitor (as I did engage with one for a partial consultation just to double check my docs and ask other questions specific to my application that I felt required legal advice). We were very thorough with the application, double and triple checked all our answers and documents/evidence, as well as getting some guidance from chatGPT (which we approached with a grain of salt and caution knowing that not everything it says is reliable). All our efforts paid off as we got the approval within the expected timeline and without any request for further information.

Im also gonna add some extra info about my application and situation as well here, and it’s quite long so you can skip it if you want but thought it could be insightful for others in a similar situation. TLDR is we had a short relationship timeline but still got an approval!

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To be really honest, other than the long processing time, we were mainly anxious about getting a rejection as my Fiancé and I had only been together for about 3 months at the time of submitting the application. Now I know for the Fiancé visa there is no minimum requirement for the length of the relationship, but we were aware of how quickly our relationship progressed from dating to engagement as compared to a typical relationship and were lowkey worried that the caseworker would find that suspicious.

For extra context, we included in our cover/personal letters that we actually first met 8 years ago and briefly dated for about a month while I was in the UK on a student visa and explained why we didn’t pursue a relationship at the time but kept in occasional contact over the years platonically. Long story short, we started chatting online again in October last year, met up in person/started dating in November and got engaged in Dec. After meeting in person again after all these years, we realized that we had a stronger connection than we initially thought and mutually decided to get married because we loved each other so much that we wanted to start building our life together ASAP and couldn’t bear to be physically apart or deal with the long distance when I had to eventually leave the UK. He proposed on New Year’s Eve, and we started preparing for the Fiancé Visa application in January this year when I flew back to my home country.

So followed our grueling wait for the application to be approved, and I am over the moon now that the wait is over and we can finally be reunited and get married this year. We managed to prove that our relationship is genuine and subsisting through pics together, consistent chat/call logs and travel/hotel bookings that we made during the first 2-3 months of our relationship. We also made an online provisional booking for a wedding at a marriage registrar in the UK and used the email confirmation as well as email correspondence inquiring about wedding dates as proof of intent to marry.

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Feel free to ask me any questions regarding my application and I’ll be happy to share what I can, as I really want to give back to this community for how much it has helped me.

Anyways, again, thank you so much to everyone here, this subreddit has given me both anxiety and solace at the same time but overall, it’s been so heartwarming to see that we are not alone in this madness that is the UK partner visa application process 🥲

I am holding out hope for everyone else still waiting for your approvals, all the best xx

hello fellow anxious applicants with pending visas! my own fiancé visa standard application was done in Singapore, bio date 20th feb, and am currently still waiting for an approval at 45 working days, so i likely have another couple of weeks of waiting to go.

I was inspired by u/okay_cad's recent post collating the timelines for the outside priority applications for mar/apr. so i manually collected and compiled the approval timelines that were posted so far on this subreddit for outside standard applications with bio dates ranging from jan-feb 2026. do note that the number of working days are calculated to include both the bio date and the decision date.

average working days for Jan Bio dates: 54.9
average working days for Feb Bio dates: 51.3

I know this data set isn't entirely reliable because its only based on whoever has posted about their approvals on here. there are also applicants from both jan and feb still waiting, and we don't know the bigger picture of all the actual approvals. regardless, i thought it'd still be interesting to see the trends so far if we are all here tracking each other's updates as an estimation to when we we'll get ours.

that said, what i've personally concluded from this data is that there seems to have been a backlog of applications from december 2025 that has slowed down the process for january applicants, thus we see that those with bio dates in early-mid jan have anywhere between 53-69 WDs , whereas the late jan-early feb applicants so far has had a steady average of 50-54 WDs. of course this average might increase as time passes and the rest of feb gets cleared too. but i assume the caseworkers are probably done with their holidays and getting up to speed with clearing their backlogs in these past couple of months.

I have never in my life been this invested in data collection and doing so has given me something to do to help ease my anxieties over the wait, and i hope this is helpful to you all too😅 so here's hoping with fingers crossed that all the applicants left from january and february will be able to get their approvals within these next few weeks 🙌

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