Hello, though I had hired a solicitor I did find this forum very useful and so am sharing my experience, for what its worth. Mysolicitor had advised me to submit the bare minimum information as required by the UKBA. The only exception was 1. Pictures of the Wedding 2. Phone bills showing calls to my...

Country of application - Pakistan
City of Visa Application Centre - Karachi
Date of application/submission - 9/Feb/2011
Date approved: 23/Feb/2011
Duration for Entry Clearance - Till my visa
Date passport received - 14/Mar/2011

Hi, I am am employed by a Co under T1G. I went to the Sheffield Office and my visa status was change from T2 to T1G on the same day, with in an hour. This was in June 2010 (i.e. last year). I gues yours is taking longer as you are Self Employed so they have to do additional checsk on your records. H...

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Proof of adress is not a mandatory requirement. Your proof of funds is evidence that you can obtain appropriate accomodation. My solicitior advised me not to provid eit. I'm still awaiting the result of my application. You may want to ask on of the moderators, others whom have applied for a dependan...

I would like to add that IMHO as per research Ive done on this, reimbursed expenses can not be claimed as they are not income, they are just "making you whole" for the expenses you have already incurred.

Its not same as income as they are not making you any better.

Hi Rubina / Rizwan, just to keep you in the loop: As I mentioned earlier, my wife applied on Feb 9th. The current status says that "“Processed Application returned TO AC - 02-03-2011â€

did u provide pictures, phone bills? How long has it been since your marriage? Usually, these peices of evidence is sufficient.

IMHO I would say that this would not count. As you didnt pay NI / Tax on this, so its not really a "salary / pay".

Per my understanding of the rules, as long as you have sufficient funds, you do not need to show proof of accomodation. The funds signify that you can arange suitable accomodation. However, a lot of people submit it as they think it will assist the case. So its not mandatory and you should assess if...

Hi, I submitted the basic documents as per the UKBA website. The only additional docs I submitted were: 1. Marriage photos, pics of the just us 2. Phone bills. I did not submit tenancy agreement etc. as my solicitor had advised me not too. BUT, its depending on your application circumstances. My sol...

Hi. My wife appliedon Feb 9th and our status now tells us that the Application has been processed and is with Islamabad. I'm opposite to you that am nervous as it was so quick. The general processing time is 4 - 5 weeks (WORKING day 4 - 5 weeks). We wont know the result till gerrys gets back the pas...

Hi mskhan, may I please ask you how many days after the application did you get the visa...? What number can I please call in Abu Dhabi? My concern is that it has only been 2.5 weeks since we submitted the application and so am nervous why it has been processed so quickly? Many thanks indeed! God bl...

Hi Guys, my wife applied for a dependant T1G visa on Feb 9th in Karachi. Today the Gerry's website shows the status as: "Processed Application returned TO AC - March 2nd 2011". When we called Gerrys, they said its been sent for further processing to Islamabad and they will inform us in due...

Yes, work permits are considered for ILR.

I think you should also look in to the idea of mailing the application and paying by a cheque. mail will take 2 days at least to deliver and cheque will take time to clear too. That will easily be 5 days.

Im saying that I dont think you need to apply for an extension. You should just apply for ILR.

If you are short by 5 days, put it through mail and payment by cheque to buy more time.

I think if you put in the mail...like second class or something, you should be ok...as its from the time you mailed the application. But pls consult some of the senior members for guidnace on this.

Hi, I believe a tenancy agreement is not mandatory, as long as you ful fill the maintenance criteria. I think it helps you (I think, I'm not sure) but its defenitely not mandatory...

I believe you should fill in your start date of your Tier 1 and the end date of your Tier 1.

Thats great!! We all must have scored 100 points then! So we should automatically qualify!!

"The points threshold for extensions will, however, be raised to 100 for those who were required to score 100 points when they were originally granted Tier 1 (General) leave". I am ubsure what this means? Is it saying that those whom were required to score 100 will still need to score 100?...

I believe as long as you have sufficient funds (i.e. meet the UKBA requirements) then you do not have to show proof of accomodation. It is only an additional peice of info people show.

But if you think it will help your case then I guess you can show it.

You need photographs before or else they will not accept your application. Make sure you meet the requirement.

Im sorry if I'm missing something here but why are people afraid they will have to go back? Is it because we are all now older than when we apploed and people will not get the age points anymore? As apart from this we still have all the points we got when we got the visas and so will get the same po...