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Have you ever been serve a deportation letter? This is very crucial.

You need to find out before making such application. Remember HO can issued you this notice at your last known address.

Hello, Having read your case, I think you have been advised correctly to go to your home country and apply for entry clearance. Have you heard of DP3/96? This is a policy set out by the HO to deal with your type of application. Unfortunately, the chances to win on DP3/96 is a very difficult one. You...

Hello, I received my passport from the HO a few days ago with ILR. My passport has now expired. I have a new passport. I want to travel next week. Is it possible to travel with both passport. I asked my embassy and they told me it's ok to do that. I rang HO and the person I spoke to does not seems t...

Hi The waiting time can be very lengthy. It would be best to withdraw the application and go back to your own country and apply for a spouse visa. Read the criteria from this forum. DP3\96 is a concession and it's very difficult to win a case base solely on this policy. I was relaying on one of the ...

Just to let you know that the judge has allowed my Appeal and he has directed Home Office to issue me Indefine Leave to Remain. The presenting office were badly defeated by my barrister. Home office did not appeal for a review as they had 5 days from the determination date. Home Office has requested...

Hi Just seen a Solicitor in London today regarding my 14 years residency application that has been refused by the Home Office as they don't believed that I was in UK from 1996 - 2001. The Solicitor told me and shown me evidence that Home Office has made it a rule to refuse this type of application i...

Dear John, I received a letter from the Home Office today and bad news - My application has been refused on the 14 years residency in UK. The main reason they refused my application is because my new passport was issued from my country of residence in 1996. They think that I must have gone home in 1...

Dear John, Thanks for a quick reply. When HO wrote to me about 4 weeks ago requesting documentation for continous residency in the UK for the last 15 years. I noticed the heading of the letter says Home Office - Immigration Service Enforcement and Removals Directorate. Does that mean anything alarmi...

Dear John, I have sent all the documentation again to the HO to prove for my continuous residency in UK for the last 15 years. I have noticed that my application is now in another department which is called Enforcement and Removal Department. I am not sure if I can work at the moment. If I can, do y...

Dear John, Thank you very much for your inputs. I contacted the HO today. I wanted to speak to the person dealing with my application. All they done is pass me from department to another. Finally I have spoken to general immigration advise. They said that I have to response to the letter they sent m...

Dear Guys, I recieved a letter today from the HO after 16 months and they are asking me to send documentation to prove that I stayed in UK for the last 15 years. When I sent them my application. I sent all sort of documentation to prove my stay in UK. I am very confused why they are asking me again....

Dear all, I am now thinking of withdraw my application which I made 16 months ago to the HO on the basis of 14 years continous residency in UK. I have decided to go back home and apply for a spouse visa. We have been married for almost 4 years and my wife is due to have a baby in May next year. What...

Hello I am completed the application by myself. I don't have any legal representative as the application was straight forward. I send them the proof of residency for the last 15 years, that's all is required and an explanation of why I overstayed. I received a letter from them and they said that my ...

Hello Nazz I am in the the same situation as you. I have been waiting for the last 16 months. Whenever I contacted the HO, they always have the same answer, your application is under further consideration. I In my case, I have been married for the last 4 years and my wife has british nationality, I ...

Hello John I am thinking of talking your advised and go back home and apply for a spouse visa. I have been in touch with the embassy there and they told me if I have all the documentations, it shouldn't take longer than 1 week. This sounds to good to be true. But when I mention about my overstayed t...

Hello Eso Thanks for sharing this information. So you friend obtain ILR before 14 years and it took only 10 months. In terms of documentations, I have sent the Home Office, previous P60, P45, Utility Bills, Tax contribution records for the past 8 years, qualifications while studying in UK, marriage ...

Hello, I am in the same position as you. It's been 16 months and still no decision from the Home Office yet. The problem also is I cannot work. I been told by a solicitor that the waiting period for this type of application is about 1 year but other people says 2 years plus. I wish someone could sha...

Hi Chess and John Thanks for you reply. I have prepared the application by myself. I have submitted various documents to cover the whole 14 years. I have also shown them evidence that I am married. My wife is in full Time employment and a Home owner as well. I did not go through a solicitor as they ...

Hello, Thanks for your outputs. I am from Maurituis, after I got married back 4 years ago, I was told that I need to go back to my country to apply on the basis of marriage by a solicitor but I know that if I waited for another 4 years then I could apply under the 14 years long residency. Now 16 mon...

Dear all, I have apply for permanent residency in the UK on the ground of 15 years long residency. I have a combination of legal and illegal stay during the last 15 years. It's going to be 16 months now since I have apply to the Home Office. Everytime I ring them, they said that my application is un...