@Mark *******

what, NAH that immigration wasn't busy? 🤔🤣

@James *******

yes, visa exempt stamp expiring on February 1 and applying for the 30 day extension. I know it just gotta do what they say, was more querying here to see if anyone else had experienced going at 10:25 and basically being told to return the following day implying 10:25 was too late

@Tod ********

that's the plan 😜

@James *******

yes. I understand being told on the 23rd to return the following week as it was outside the 7 days remaining. But the way I understood what happened today was that I arrived too late to apply today 🤷‍♂️ never heard of that before

@James *******

i didn't even get into the queue to hand over my passport, simply told to return tomorrow and that it opens at 8am 🤷‍♂️

@Paul *******

the common travel area beten the UK and the Republic of Ireland is still in place.

BUT, with you being Irish maybe it will be difficult to get a UK visitor visa. The same 'should' work with an Irish visa due to the common travel agreement. Good luck

@Henry ********

Ireland isn't part of the schengen zone. So a schengen visa would be of no use. But she can travel to Ireland on a UK visitor visa provided she is in the UK and the entry stamp is still valid

Uk visitor visa is all she needs. This was confirmed by the Irish immigration. Provided she is stamped into the UK and that that stamp is still valid, she can travel from the UK to Ireland. The reason I know this as fact is the while my thai partner was stamped into the UK, we departed Dublin to Thailand and back to Dublin within her 6 month stamp

@Kevan *********

unless it has changed, the standard visitor visa is valid for 6 months starting from the date you state on the application as to when you intend to travel to the UK. That was what it was around 3 years ago when I successfully applied for my partner's first visa