YESSSSS! After 5 months and 23 days I finally got the good news I was looking for! Good luck everyone!

Rang home office and told that they have made a decision, but they can't tell me what the decision is yet! It has been sent out 2nd class and should be with me tomorrow or Monday. Fingers crossed!!!!

Lordblessme wrote:5 months and 1 one day to be exact. Are they going to make me suffer for the ENTIRE 6 months. Its just toooo much in all honesty.

I didn't ask for your sarcasm, but thanks anyway! I was just wondering if it was normal for them to take the whole 6 months.

You can request your passport to be sent back to you while you wait. It takes 2 to 4 weeks for passport to come back so it's better to request it just in case. HO can ask for it to be sent back to them if required again. Good luck I have got all my documents back, but the stamp in he old passport i...

Hi everyone, This is my first post and I am looking for some advice please. I have lived in the UK since April 1997 and I have had ILR since November 1998. My ILR is stamped in my old South African passport, which expired in 2002. I have never renewed my passport, because I have never travelled outs...

Also I would just like to add that I was only 12 years old when I moved to the UK, so I attended secondary school, college and got my degree from university here. I also have 2 children to my British partner and I have worked for the past 14 years. This is the first time that an employer has questio...

Hi everyone, This is my first post and I am looking for some advice please. I have lived in the UK since April 1997 and I have had ILR since November 1998. My ILR is stamped in my old South African passport, which expired in 2002. I have never renewed my passport, because I have never travelled outs...