Dear Seniors, Please I was asked this question by someone but I could not find the answer despite trawling through similar posts on this website! A woman who was granted ILR on the basis of 14 years stay in the UK in May 2013, asked me to confirm if she is eligible to apply for British Citizenship a...
Dear Robyn.88 I sympathise with you and your husband over the loss of his passport/settlement visa. However, I must quickly add that it can still be found despite the number of searches all of you have made. I am saying this from experience because however careful anyone is, having a missing stuff o...
Dear Gurus and other seniors Please I need your help on this matter. In UKBA publication under the heading "Set 03 - Spouses" and under the sub-heading Set 3.3, "How do spouses qualify?", Immigration Rules paragraphs 277-289, It stated thus: "The couple has been married for ...
Dear Lucapooka and D4109125 Thank you for your prompt replies. By the time I applied for 14 years ILR, I was already an overstayer. I came into UK in December 1998 on a visit visa which I was able to extend to the year 2000. So, apparently, I was legal up till the year 2000. I tried to change over t...
Dear Gurus and other senior members Please I need your help over this issue. I have recently been granted ILR on the basis of 14 years mixture of legal stay and overstay in the UK. With the frequent penchant of the Home Office to change the regulations, I don`t know the current qualifying time to ge...
Dear seniors Please I need your advice and help over this issue. I have ILR and so, I know that I am allowed to work in the UK. But whilst applying for jobs, some of the job posts have openings in other European countries and the application form asks if the applicant is free to work in the EU etc. ...
Thank you MPH 80 and D4109125 for your prompt replies. I keep my ears open for any development because the financial requirement had proved a major hurdle for many people who genuinely wanted to be with their partners in UK.
Please I need some clarification about the position of things about the financial requirement. I was told recently that following protests, the UKBA had been forced to reduce the financial requirement of a sponsor for a spousal visa from the £18,600 it was originally to some more reasonable amount. ...
Cogratulations to coco_nutty and Majnoon for the quick approval of your visa and your wife`s visa respectively. We are happy to note that things are moving faster now. Soon, I will arrange for my partner to obtain a spouse visa to join me in the UK.
Dear members After what we all have collectively suffered already, I want to do my little bit to reduce further unnecessary suffering for those still waiting for their ILR. If you haven`t done so already, you must be checking the daily mail of the house where you live religiously! This is so because...
Dear members Thanks Hopeful2, GodGives and glory5050 for your congratulatory messages. The letter came by ordinary Royal mail post. It is the BRP that will be sent under separate cover for which you have to sign for and show a form of identity before you collect it. Goodluck to everyone who is still...
Dear members Thank you GodGives and glory5050 for your congratulatory messages. To those who are still waiting, please be of good cheer, because by God`s power, everything will be alright in the end. Don`t stress too much! My timelines were as follows: Application sent: 07/07/2012 Acknowledgement le...
Dear members I confirm that I received my 14 years ILR letter today! It came in a big envelope, posted from Liverpool. It contained 3 pages from the UKBA/Home Office, apart from some of my documents and 3 passports I had included in the application. The letter said that the BRP will be sent under se...
Dear members There was on channel 4, a programme on immigration matter which diggingdeep has kindly given a link to etc. The undercover workers mainly referred to backlog cases involving asylum cases and students who entered UK pretending to come here to study. They centred on Sheffield office. I be...
Dear members UKBA is to be scrapped in the near future. It will be split into 2 and will come under the supervision of the Home office etc. What however concerns us is whether this move will expedite our getting the 14 years ILR faster or whether it will cause more delays! Those of you who applied j...
Dear members Thank you lola25uk for your response. It is now the 9th month since the last set of 14 years ILR was sent to UKBA. Members should please air their views here: do we contact our MPs, get the newspapers to campaign on our behalfs ? etc apart from our continuous prayer to God. The stress o...
Dear members From the postings, only about 5 persons have stated that they have received their 14 years ILR, after appying just before 9th July 2012. What is UKBA waiting for? Our members are having sleepless nights and some are having to move to new addresses and so are worried that despite informi...
Dear members Apart from 2 persons recently, no other applicant has received his ILR. UKBA is too slow and is toying with our future and health! We are now entering the 8th month and the long wait is very stressful and can adversely affect one`s health. We expect to be seeing a constant stream of mem...
Congratulations on getting approval for your 14 years ILR. Please give us more details. This hopefully means that they have started working on applications sent in July 2012, on or before 9th July 2012. This is good news for our members because the long wait is too stressful.
Dear members It now appears that a member by name Harik is the first person to obtain 14 years ILR recently. He sent off his application in June, 2012. However, we are yet to see or hear from anyone who sent his around 9th July 2012 when the 14 years ILR closed for the last time. I believe by now, a...
Members of this forum who depend on the 14 years rule to regularise their stay in UK must have heard about the "statement of intent" of the UKBA which wants to scrap it on the 9th July 2012! Well, all is not lost! The "statement of intent" has still to be tabled before the parlia...
Thank you diggingdeep and chorc123 for your posts. It is not easy for anyone to wait for about 14 years to obtain ILR. You have done well to involve your MPs. I believe there must be a remedy for people who depended on this route. We are not saying that the UKBA cannot change it`s rule BUT we are sa...
