Hi peewee What was the date on your IAT-2 form the letter saying they have received your appeal. This would give us an idea of whether or not to send in a new application. Thanks Maragret hi, we didn't appeal formally, just asked pretoria to reconsider. we would have made a new application had they...

as sushdmetha said it does take months to appeal, another user was given a 5 month timescale in SA, cant comment on india. we gave ourselves 2 weeks to hear back from embassy as i had read in their staff guidance that they have a standard of 10 working days to forward formal appeal to tribunal in UK...

Hi I'm new to this forum - sorry in advance if the below doesnt make sense, hopefully it will. I'm hoping you can help on this related subject. Some background info. I'm a British national, my wife is Indian. We married in India over a year ago. We applied for the UK settlement visa on October 19th...

hi just an update although maybe not relevent as sounds we had different circumstances, my husband recieved an email from embassy this morning to say decision was overturned and can he submit passport to VFS office for visa. so that s about a week for them to make the decision. hope you hear somethi...

No my husband faxed it to UK on the fax number includeed in the appeal Seems we are all in the same situation I have hust come off skype and :cry: :cry: :cry: all over again. I don't suppose you know if they phone or send letter to request passport. Thanks for your answer will let you know whats ha...

My husbands application was refused due to the English Language requiement. We have lodged the appeal on 25 October 2011 and they have informed uo that they will reply on 12 March 2011. We were advised that the appeal will be reveiewed at post before the appeal bundle is prepared. On 8th November t...

I'm in your exact situation - except I'm in South Africa with our daughter (who is now almost 3 months old) and my husband is in England! I know it's inconvenient, and costs more than anyone really wants to spend (my first language is English too) but I'm a qualified English teacher and they wouldn...

did u submit the letter from uni that the degree was taught in English before applying for visa??? Did u take the print out frm the uk border agency site about the 10 points language score?? Did u mention on the covering that both the universities are the same with different names?? Any proof of th...

any advice/ opinions really appreciated............. we received a refusal notice today stating my husband had not proven eng language requirements, as south africa is not majority english speaking country and his degree qualification was not recognised by the ukba points based calculator. in applic...

hi just wanted to say best of luck with the application as my husband (south african) and i are in pretty much the same situation as you! he just applied today in durban and i'm back in UK desperately hoping he's here before christmas!

hi, i've found this site invaluable over the past few weeks whilst collating suporting documents for my husbands spouse settlement application. we are now at the stage of filling out the application form itself and have come across a wee sticking point........hope someone can give us some help with ...