Well the end of this story is, in the end I wrote to the case worker special delivery and told them exactly how unfair I thought they were being. Result - Wife's passport sent back, ILR refusal put on hold, 14 days given to provide a SELT test pass code. Wife took the test a couple of days later and...

Thanks for the advice. But I can't contain my loathing for the home-office. You pay £1500 for something that obviously doesn't cost that to administer (or if it does someone is skimming off the profits). £2000 cost to my family. £2000 from my child's inheritance, £2000 pounds that could be given to ...

Dirty people. So they get £2000 for nothing and then we have to immediately pay £1500 to get ILR just because they won't give us an extra few days to get the required certificate. Ok we could wait 2 years but by then they will probably have added even more traps. Really makes me want to leave this l...

Anyone else have advice on this? Currently it looks like we have to pay them £400 for the NHS supplement and accept the downgrading of the ILR applicaiton to FLR. Do you think they will refund the difference in cost between the ILR price (about £1500) and the FLR price (about £600), or will they jus...

Ok, my wife has an EU photo ID card (Swedish Residence card) and it seems this is an accepted ID for SELT test centers. So my proposed course of action is. 1. Wife gets SELT certificate 2. I send it to the HO with a Pre Claim Protocol for Judicial Review (since they have have given no right to appea...

Thanks for that information noajthan, do you have any links to the cases where people took the 'emergency SELT'? Also I am confused because they didn't include information on a right to appeal and an appeals form with the rejection letter. I read on a webpage 'About Immigration': "Unsuccessful ...

Hi, My wife just got a letter saying that her application for ILR has been refused, the reason: "In support of your application you have provided City and Guilds certificates showing that you have completed Level 2 certificate in ESOL at Blackburn College awarded on 20 July 2015 and an IELTS ce...