I am wondering what the criteria is for eligibility for this 4 year rule? The press release says “...it would be unlawful for the Secretary of State to withhold indefinite leave to remain from all those members of the HSMP who were already on the scheme before the 3 April 2006...". I applied ...

Hi folks, I just received my passports with stamping till 2011. Application sent 25th Feb Fees taken 26th Feb Previous Visa Expiry date 19th April 2008 Passport received back 25th April 2008 Thanks for your support and hope everyone gets theirs passports back soon. Btw. I had called them yesterday b...

HSMP111 wrote:Hi Everyone,

Finally i received my Documents back with 3 years of Visa extension till april 2011.

Thanks everybody and good luck to everyone who is waiting for visa extension.

Congrats!! That gives us some confidence... Hope next week is good for the rest of us!

Tried calling the home office again today. And ofcourse they came up with a totally different thing from what they said last week.. on the automated system, it says they are processing applications from Feb 19 (they seem to be going backwards now :-) ).. Called again and tried different options unti...

Hi, called Home office a couple of times today. First guys said they are processing applications from 20 Feb (yesterday they said 23rd!).. The second time there was this decent bloke who spent a lot of time going through the system and said that my FLR application (Posted 25th, Money taken on 26th) ...

Hi, I asked my wife to call the HO and the person who answered said that we can apply whenever we want.. but then just to confirm again i called the HO and they clearly said 5 weeks :-) !! So i guess the call center folks answering the questions are not well informed. In which case, the emails too c...

Hi, My current HSMP visa issued for 2 years expires on Apr 19 so I have to apply for my HSMP Extn in March mid. Any ideas about the time it takes for getting the passports back as i would like to travel in end of April. Is 6 weeks long enough or should i not risk it. Any information on this is appre...