These are guidelines about how your HSMP application is processed by the caseworker. Getting visa is a seperate process. You apply for visa after you have got the HSMP approval letter.

Does anyone have any information about how the VISA (Entry Clearance) application is processed?

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Hi Chess, I am just sharing a bit of personal experience and an advice. My visa application was refused and now it in appeals. Had i applied well before the exipiry date of my HSMP application, I could have got the chance to reapply with additional documents. I am just telling all the aspirants to p...

Hi Ajex, I also would not advise you to wait until the very end of your HSMP validaity before applying for EC. In the event of things not going according to plan, for example if they ask you for more documentation then you may not have enough time to comply within the validity period of your HSMP ap...

Dear All (Who have got their HSMP approval letters) 1. Please apply well before the 3 months time period expires for applying for Entry Clearance, so that in case the EC is refused you could reapply with additional documents if need be. Or Apply atleast 30 days before the 3 months time limit. This w...

Dear All, Mini, John Thanks very much indeed for all your suggestions and supports. Mini, Thanks for giving this draft of the letter as well. I indeed got the letters prepared from my employer with almost the same words as mentioned in your draft. Rather he has given me the letters for both of my en...

Dear all Members and Moderators,

Can anyone please advise me as to what should I do to proove my honesty!

I have stated all correct facts and all my supporting documents are genuine and correct.

Please!

And John! What is they call up your office, talk to your to confirm the details of your experience letter. Talk with whosoever picks the phone (receptionist) and try to extract the facts from her.... confuse her up and she ends up answering conflicting facts and then the ECO writes a report that the...

Yes I have heard that post dated ec applications are approved .. provided you write very clearly in you application ccover letter!

I applied for EC to BHC (New Delhi) though VFS on 23 Nov,2005. I got the courier back today 25 Nov, 2005 with the rejection letter stating that the ECO is satisfied from their document verification report that there is a high degree of probability that the employment letter provided by me is not a g...