Congratulations siddiqui! Can you please advise how they asked for the passport resubmission? Farooq - OK congratulations on one part and hopefully other will be with you soon. You ba e been waiting for so long! So happy! Also thanks for the information about when visa start from. Regards Many than...

I spoke to VFS and they advised to wait for a second email that will tell us to submit passport. I am in the UK. Was thinking to send a family friend to lahore and ask the office but I don't want to cause an issue. Hi Khurram By way of an update I received vfs email for my mum only and passport col...

Some people didn’t get any text and they turned up at the visa processing office and collected their passports. I know the issue email says don’t visit until asked but after one week is it ok to visit the office? The way they are operating who knows they might never send a text or call for collection?

No idea how they are working. I was expecting passport collection email ( since the issue email last Saturday) but instead just received visa application issued email again for only one applicant ( we have two applications for my mum and dad). Anyone in similar situation? Why would they send me agai...

Hi friends, any idea how the VFS contact for passport collection? By email or text? Or both?

Thank you Khurram and congratulations.

I have also received visa application issued email today.

I know I’m getting carried away but visa application issued email means visa has been granted?

Hi all, I have received this email. Does it mean guarantee visa? Dear Customer, Your UK visa application has been issued. PLEASE DO NOT GO TO THE VISA APPLICATION CENTRE BEFORE THEY CONTACT YOU. You will be contacted by the Visa Application Centre when your documents are ready for collection, or hav...

Received email today… Dear Customer, Your UK visa application has been issued. PLEASE DO NOT GO TO THE VISA APPLICATION CENTRE BEFORE THEY CONTACT YOU. You will be contacted by the Visa Application Centre when your documents are ready for collection, or have been dispatched via courier where this i...

Hi Faisal, That's a good news. I hope your will receive your father's visa issue email soon. Please could you share your dates of submission, biometrics and hold emails? Also which center was it? My parents also applied in April and we have been waiting since then. Good luck brother. I hope we all g...

I feel my patience is running out, not that I can do much with the situation but wonder how much more time they need to ‘decide’ our applications. It’s exactly two weeks today since Pakistan came off the red list and three weeks since the announcement and six months since the biometrics.

Standard Visitor Visa Sub- Category : Family Visitor (6 months) Country/Town of Application : Islamabad, VFS Application submitted & biometrics enrolled at : 7th April 2021 Application forwarded to UKVI on : 8th April 2021 Hold email: 21st April 2021 Since then nothing. Moderator edit : this th...

Update: Issued email on 20/09/21 Passport Collected. Visa Granted! Alhumdhulila 🙏🙏🙏🙏 Make dua Allah SWT grants my husband Stay strong. I know its difficult for you and your family. I just lost my uncle on Saturday. May Allah SWT bless your husband with good health. Ameen Sorry moderators, I underst...

Farooq.. Don't let your mind confuse you. As with our Indian friends. Hold emails means application was accepted as rejection emails were being given during red list. I even had a phone call from them during my application stage to judge the application. Please sit tight.. You are almost there!! Th...

I think the trend is that our held applications clocked back in from 22 Sep and it will be usual 3 weeks processing time, if we are lucky and they haven't misplaced our applications and documents. Still very strange as I always thought that decisions were made and they just would release them. 6 mon...

Is there anyone who applied before May and received hold emails? We applied in April and received hold email on 21 April and nothing since. This is very frustrating.

Today is 2 weeks since the announcement of pakistan coming off the list and no sign at all when will we hear from UKVI. There has to be a way to address this. How come they are deciding Sep applications while applications from April are building up dust? Extremely unfair

Nothing for me yet. This is so frustrating. Pak came off the list 12 days ago so I expect them to work day and night to clear the months long backlog. Do they actually think people could be desperate and plans could be jeopardized for this excruciating wait? They had nearly 6 months on our applicati...

This is from the VFS website 21 September 2021 Pakistan will come off the red list from 04:00 (BST) on 22/09 Our Visa Application Centres in Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore and Mirpur are open. Please view the individual Visa Application Centre pages for our current operating hours and available services...

I can feel that I am really getting impatient after nearly 6 months since we submitted the application and yet no clue if it’s FIFO or LIFO for UKVI to clear the backlog. From their email yesterday they said decision hasn’t been made on our application. I don’t get that. 6 months and they haven’t d...

I can feel that I am really getting impatient after nearly 6 months since we submitted the application and yet no clue if it’s FIFO or LIFO for UKVI to clear the backlog. From their email yesterday they said decision hasn’t been made on our application. I don’t get that. 6 months and they haven’t de...

Received two email below are the emails.. Email # 1:::: Dear Customer, PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE. THIS MAILBOX IS NOT MONITORED. Your UK visa application is currently under consideration at the British Embassy Abu Dhabi. Unfortunately the processing of your application has not been straig...

Hi there, After Pakistan’s removal from the Red list, has anyone on this thread with “assesssed but not concluded” visit visa application status been contacted by UKVI asking for their revised travel dates or to submit their passports? I got the above mentioned status email on 6th June for my paren...

Yes we also were given back the passport as I applied when Pakistan was in the red list. They said they will get in touch once they are out of the red list. This will be via text. Regards Strange. They never returned my parents’ passports. My parents applied in the 1st week of April. In their hold ...

Khuram1987 wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 17, 2021 5:16 pm

Congratulations.
Pakistan is off the red list.
Hopefully all visas on hold should be processed soon

Thanks.

Great news. Please keep us posted.

Question is will we get decisions or will they ask for more recent documents. After all its been nearly 6 month since the application.

Big day, Pakistan could be moved to Amber. Fingers crossed. But I’m 50:50.

So may I know if all the Indian friends who were in similar situations ( visa held due to red list) got their visas?