Dear PeterJ,

Have your had any further contact with CIC/London yet ?

Regards TY

Dear Lara, Thanks for your kind words, much appreciated. Assuming I get my visa in three months say, the whole process for me would be 29 months. But my understanding is that the current queue is longer, quite how long I’m afraid I don’t know exactly. Certainly my expectation when I tendered my appl...

Dear Lara, If you have qualifications such as O/A levels and a Degree from British institutions you should be OK. An English language O level would be sufficent so that's why it's important to get those duplicates of your certificates. I provided copies of all such O/A's and Diploma with my applicat...

Dear Lara, Just to let you know our medical requests came through this morning and these have been booked in Croydon (!) for this saturday. Everything going to plan so far, next is the actual visa, then selling the house and fingers crossed the exchange rate keeping going the right way. All the best...

Hi Janet,

You say your AOR was June04 and still no medicals? Is that right, as some Nov04 AOR's have had their medicals in mid Dec06. No reason not to believe them? That makes your application rather late, or have I mis read the situation?

Regards TY

Yes, O/A levels were a long time ago, but they should not be too difficult to get duplicates as long as you have the right dates, name of boards, name of school etc. These surely prove your school years ? Does anyone agree with me :?: I think it would be a good idea to have them. I have all my certi...

Dear Lara, I'm really sorry but my post was unclear, let me try to be clearer. :oops: My understanding (CIC/general vibes/reading etc) is that NEW applications for 'skilled worker' are indeed UP TO 45-48 months !! A possible reason for this could be that the London office is now handling application...

Hello, You don't say which sort of application you have tendered, so difficult to say, but if it's a skilled worker application you have a considerable wait. I hope you are patient person, as you will need lots of this quality. My advice is to keeping your hopes and dreams alive, no harm in that wha...

Hi there,
Has anyone any experience or knowledge of how 'high blood' pressure is viewed by the canadian authorities?
I have hereditary high blood pressure for which I take treatment , but otherwise I'm fit as a fiddle !
Thanks TY

Yes, it would be a good idea to apply early and then take the option of landing and returning to the UK. This will buy you the time to take your time as they say. I have friends who have taken that option to NZ. Processing times in London are at least 24 months at the moment, and I would guess only ...