Application Type:First Adult Passport (After Naturalisation) Method of application: Post Office Check & Send. Date of application: 18/07/2013 Date application received by IPS: 22/07/2013 Date of fee collection:18/07/2013 (Paid at the post office) Date of Application acknowledged by IPS: 22/07/20...

Eligibility criteria: 5 years (HSMP + Tier 1) + 1 year ILR Method of application: NCS Southwark Date of application:26/03/2013 Date of receipt by UKBA: 27/03/2013 Date of debit of fees:08/04/2013 Date of receipt of acknowledgement:13/04/2013 (dated 08/04/2013) Date of receipt of approval: 29/04/2013...

You can try calling them and all they will is that whether you have been waiting for more than six months or not? If not then they will say that they cannot tell you anything about it. if you have an urgent need for travel, send them a letter by post explaining your need to travel and a polite reque...

No way to get a status update. You have to wait...I am sure if the letter sent by your employer addresses in detail what the Home Office asked for, you will be fine. Just a matter of patience. I have gone through this and can understand your frustration. Hope you hear back with the good news soon. I...

Congrats mfb123. Hi All, Just to update you guys - I received a call today from UKBA that my application for ILR has been approved so I can come and collect my documents or documents can be sent to home but I opted to collect myself. BRP will receive in 7 working days - PEO applied 27-04-12 but give...

Do a google search for Sheffield PEO. I would however recommend to wait for the letter to see what documents have been requested and what address are they supposed to be sent to? Hi , Could anyone help me with the Sheffield address please. If you have previously sent any ILR additional document to S...

Yes UKBA does appears to be in Shambles..Visa Systems crashing..Heathrow queues..Hope you hear back soon. Keep us posted. @jaskiratbaweja No news yet and it only gets worse http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18068654#TWEET144708 :( I do not think they are going to fix this issue ever! the current govt can...

I have requested the moderators to make this thread a sticky as we have quite a few people tracking such applications on this thread.

Hope all those awaiting hear back good news from Home Office soon.

Hi Moderators,

Can I request to make http://immigrationboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=96401
sticky. I see lots of people have been using this thread to post their timelines and it has got a high number of views as well.

Thanks

Guys, Got a call from UKBA today morning to come and pick the passports and been told everything is OK. I applied at croydon PEO on 1st March 2012 and its been 40 days to get this message for a very straight forward application complete RIP-OFF.... I will post again once I receive our passports.......

Congratulations AshMad. That was indeed a very long wait. Glad it is finally over for you.

fahadz1 wrote: i will apply in july.... just collecting all the documents.

Any complications in your case? You seem to be collecting very comprehensive documentation.

did you submit bank statments and your travel expences details which was paid by your company ? or just a letter which you enclosed in this link ? I only submitted the additional letter from my company and a copy of my contract of employment. That's all and it was sufficient and provided what UKBA ...

Hello I just returned from Croydon PEO, exhausted and shell shocked. My appointment was at 9, spent all day there only to be informed at 4pm that the application will not be decided today due to some further checks. I am on WP changed employers/WP/FLR's three times and i didn't know about the backl...

Definitely need some accountability. And they should refund money if they do not process in certain stipulated time. I posted requesting information to Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/peo_croydon_service_standards Waiting to see what they, If anyone has ...

So as of today we have following forum members waiting to hear back : -

vtp11321
mtpsk
ZyRon33
Panda_0777
chweetgurl
Londonguy79

Thank you for support Jaskirat, I contacted LIT (Local Immigration Team) assuming someone would help, The lady on phone mentioned they deal with only illegal immigrants cases removals etc but would try to check my info strangely she could not find my details on her system. She also said that any po...

Hi Jaskiratbaweja.. I thought so.. So whats your gut feeing for my case? Did you provide any Cover letter explaining absences? I think since none of the absences is greater than 90 days and they can probably excuse paid leave allowance. You should get a positive decision but UKBA is not very consis...

It is probably a typo. The absence limit is 180 days in 5 years. Defined in the http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/policyandlaw/modernised/cross-cut/ilr-calculating-continuous/ilr-calculating-continuous.pdf?view=Binary However it says Holidays consistent with Paid Leave and Shor...

UKBA is very unhelpful with regards to providing status updates. They go by the book and I have not seen anybody being able to get a useful update by calling the expensive 0870 number. It is just a waste of money especially if you have been waiting for less than 6 months. However, if you need to exp...

Next month I am applying for ILR and I just checked new form which was released on 29th of Feb 2012 regarding the continuous stay in the UK. Number of Absences (Paid Annual Leave) = 125 unpaid stay out of country= 79 continuous days. (during this period I was unemployed and it was my first year of ...

Yes, I will be posting my tier 1 extension application on monday. There is no consistency with UKBA on how they deal with absences and luck did not favour me. One of my colleague got ILR with 450 + day absence ( with 2 absence more than 90 days) but not me. Our cases were exactly similar. Anyways, ...

Folks, I got my documents back and my ILR has been refused. They have not given the right to appeal. I had absence of 339 days ( around 240 business trip and 99 leave). The reason for rejection is not not spending continuous 5 years as I had two absence of more than 90 days. Even though the absence...

I have put the employer letter format on google doscs for everybody's reference . All the Best

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-WZp0 ... MGNibEFHQQ

It seems most activity from UKBA for such applications happens towards the end of the week. All the best to those waiting.