Hurray! We got my wife's passport back with a lovely crisp ILR vignette inside! In the end it took about 7 weeks from posting it. Slightly disappointed that I had not even a letter of acknowledgement to two separate letters complaining about the difficulties we experienced but not particularly surpr...

Just to let you all know that my passport arrived on Saturday by recorded delivery. The accompanying letter stated that they have taken a copy so I will not need to send it to them again. Whether the fax showing my flight confirmations spurred them into action or just the request for the return of t...

Well, at last yesterday I managed to finally get through on the 0870 606 7766 number and got put through to somebody who placed a request for the urgent return of my passport. They told me that they "try" to return documents (no guarantee) within 10 working days when they are urgently requ...

I've been having the same problem too and then on the one occasion I got through the menu system was broken and kept sending from "press 1 to check progress of application" back to the same "options menu" again and again... I think they could do a lot better than this! It seems t...

Thanks for all your replies Guys I have had a relative in hospital this last week so only just had the opportunity to get back to this! Anandsun, thanks for your comments - we will try to obtain my wife's SAR file shortly. We are both intrigued to know what it will contain! Extrovert, the ECO actual...

Hi I was just wondering if anyone can assist me in clearing up exactly what has just taken place today on attending Birmingham PEO to apply for my wife's ILR as we are somewhat puzzled..... We attended the appointment today and felt quietly confident having a ( we thought, well-prepared) folder of d...

[quote]I believe you can send a certified copy of your passport, but not 100% sure so others can advise you on this. [/quote]

Does anyone else know if this is the case?

Thanks

Hi Thanks for the swift reply! A certified copy would be ideal as I still have spares from our spouse visa application 2 years ago - can anyone confirm if this is possible? I was rather hoping we could avoid having to spend an extra £200 on top of the £750 as it's already quite an amount to have t...

Hi I was just wondering if anybody can help? We will be applying for my wife's ILR in February but I need to travel on the 3rd of April and understand that I need to submit my passport with our application. By the sounds of it my passport may not reach us in time for me to travel. Is it possible to ...

Thanks for your reply! Do you think they will give us the interview notes? My feeling is that if we ask for the interview notes and have the appeal pending they will just tell us to wait for the 'bundle' of evidence to be returned rather than give us the notes. Does anyone else have any experience o...

Hi John Thanks for your reply! The difficulty is that my wife had been here on a student visa and she was refused a further student visa earlier this year. We appealed this hoping my divorce would come through in the mean time and enable us to get over to Kenya to get married there ASAP. The appeal ...

Hi Everybody I was just looking for some guidance on filling in section 7 of the VAF2 form (as part of an application for a spouse visa for my wife)..... Parts 7.9 - 7.15 seem to only ask for information on a single previous visa application - (i.e 7.9 "where was your previous application made?...

Hi Moogle Thanks for your reply! I'm hoping that the phone bills will help to prove we are genuine (God knows they're big enough!)! Unfortunately we already included a letter and bank statements from my parents offering us their support and sponsoring us to £5000 and this it appears was disregarded ...

Hi there. I will try to keep it brief! My wife is Kenyan, I am British, we married in Kenya in September 2006 and unfortunately she was refused a spouse visa on the grounds that the British High Commission was not satisfied that: -intend to live permanently with your spouse -will be adequately maint...

Hi We have recently had our spouse visa application rejected and just wondered if anyone would be kind enough to give us any pointers on what we can do now to rectify our situation. We’ve made some mistakes (quite a lot really) and we haven’t done ourselves many favours but we just want to get back ...

Thank you John and Smit for your comments...... I saw elsewhere on here the following quote on a similar theme..... "Overstaying not usually a problem where a return to the UK is in a category leading to settlement (CLS) - this includes a visa as the spouse of a settled person, work permit hold...

Hi John Thanks for the swift reply to my post! We are currently gathering everything together in terms of documentary evidence of our relationship together. I feel (and I do not claim to be particularly knowledgeable on this) that we have a fairly good amount of evidence to support our application (...

Hi Everybody Don't know if anyone can give us some advice on our situation as we are in a bit of a jam!!! Any advice would be much appreciated..... My girlfriend has just been refused a further student visa (3rd consecutive) to study here. The reason given by the Home Office was that she has not att...