Here is my timeline so far Eligibility criteria: 5 Years + 1 Year ILR - EU Citizen Language criteria met : Life in the UK , UK MBA Current nationality: Italian Method of application: Solicitor Date of application: 30/03/2015 Payment method: Debit Card Date of receipt by UKBA: 31/03/2015 (Royal Mail ...

The clock starts ticking from today - wish me good luck guys - will update in due course Eligibility criteria: 5 Years + 1 Year ILR - EU Citizen Language criteria met : Life in the UK , UK MBA Current nationality: Italian Method of application: Solicitor Date of application: 30/03/2015 Payment meth...

Just asked my solicitor if I could get my passport back so I can go on a holiday. He told me doing this could have a negative impact in the result. Now I'm not sure if that's true, or he said it so that he didn't have to deal with asking HO for my documents back... In both cases, it's silly. My sol...

The clock starts ticking from today - wish me good luck guys - will update in due course Eligibility criteria: 5 Years + 1 Year ILR - EU Citizen Language criteria met : Life in the UK , UK MBA Current nationality: Italian Method of application: Solicitor Date of application: 30/03/2015 Payment meth...

My balance just dropped of the right amount - payment done

Agreed - it seems that for apps sent around last week of March is taking about 20 days to process a payment.......

So far I can see that either because of the Easter holidays or for other reasons, the payments seem to have slow down a bit In my case I pushed my solicitor to send the application through before the new fees kicked in As for the HO ability to cope with picks and drops - I'm not sure how flexible th...

Guys, anyone who applied (application received by the HO) around the 30th of March and got the payment processed? I spoke with my solicitor and looks like that due to fee increase, there has been a spike in applications to submit them before the April date and now there is a huge backlog. Let me kno...

The clock starts ticking from today - wish me good luck guys - will update in due course Eligibility criteria: 5 Years + 1 Year ILR - EU Citizen Language criteria met : Life in the UK , UK MBA Current nationality: Italian Method of application: Solicitor Date of application: 30-03-2015 Payment metho...