Appeal wrong visa?

Hi All,

I'm hoping someone may have some suggestions about this. I'm a British citizen now living in the UK. My Canadian partner and I applied for an unmarried spousal visa as we'd been together for several years in Canada before I moved over to the UK. We just got the visa in the mail and it's for a fiancee visa.

Now, we are engaged and I did write a note on our cover letter saying that we had just been engaged, but wouldn't be getting married until next summer in Canada so the fiancee visa wouldn't be good for us. Now as I understand it, with this fiancee visa, she can't work, it's only good for 6 months (i.e. well before next summer) and we have to get married within that time period. So we pretty much just lost the $1000 visa fee as there's no point in her giving up her current job to come over here.

Does anyone know if it's possible to send our information back and get them to reconsider us for the unmarried spouse visa we had actually applied for?

Thanks for any advice,

Matt

-- Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:00 am --

Replying to my own post, I have a related question. I'm almost thinking the Home Office put the wrong slip of paper in our returned documents saying that we got a fiancee visa. In my partner's passport, the visa stamp actually says UK Entry Clearance Type: To Join Partner M Smith, and the visa is valid from Aug 6, 2009 to Nov 6, 2011. It doesn't say anything about a fiancee visa and I thought the fiancee one is only good for 6 months.

Can anyone who has a fiancee visa or an unmarried spouse/civil partner visa tell me what their visa says?

Thanks for any help,

Matt