New Zealand. I still have 6 months before my visa expires but my company is only applying for a new license this week. I might book flights when there's 3 months left, just in case :( You've got plenty of time mate! Just make sure that your company has the correct documents, all properly certified....

Someone83 wrote:What do you do in this case? Do you have a flight booked home? Last minute flights for me would cost me over £5000 for me and the missus.

I have already paid for my flight and booked for Friday. £600 for me. Which is still a lot of money.

£5000 sounds insane! where do you have to fly to?

Ok so here is an update. My company registration got refused. Apparently one of the documents was not "certified" - even though they were the original documents which we had sent. (3 out of the 4 documents we had sent were fine. It's just the one which they couldn't verify). So, my visa e...

Ok so here is an update. My company registration got refused. Apparently one of the documents was not "certified" - even though they were the original documents which we had sent. (3 out of the 4 documents we had sent were fine. It's just the one which they couldn't verify). So, my visa ex...

sussexguy wrote:24487- 7 more than yesterday. Anyone on this forum received their licence over the last few days?

you mean 25487

Hey. We sent the request when we had 15 working days left but initially got an email saying to contact them only when 10 workings days of the visa I left. We were planning to do that but yesterday they got back to us. so your company license is issued now? is that correct? did you get unrestricted ...

Found an article talking about our exact issue: http://www.lexology.com/library/detail. ... 0e64f63277

This is being discussed here in this thread: http://www.immigrationboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=112044

A quick update on what's happening. My PSW visa expires on the 27th. We emailed them, and got this response. (Sponsor Licensing Support <SponsorLicensing.Support@UKBA.gsi.gov.uk>) "Thank you for your enquiry regarding the status of your application. We can confirm that your application is bein...

Hi, I am in same boat like you .. My Employer applied for licence in mid of July and my visa is getting expire in mid of December. Employer sent an inquiry and they replied that they were dealing the applications submitting on or before 1st week of April. Employer sent a complain about this delayed...

A quick update on what's happening. My PSW visa expires on the 27th. We emailed them, and got this response. (Sponsor Licensing Support <SponsorLicensing.Support@UKBA.gsi.gov.uk>) "Thank you for your enquiry regarding the status of your application. We can confirm that your application is bein...

Except that I've seen a number of people on here who have applied for urgent treatment and have heard nothing back.... Yes, but here's the thing. Most who have made urgent requests have weeks and perhaps months before their current visa expires. They explicitly say that they will only consider if i...

Hey i know this whole sponsor license issue can be very stressful. Infact i am in the very same situation and my current visa expires on the 27th october. My company sent the application on the 26th of June and we heard back yesterday saying they are processing and need more documents as one of the ...

Further update..

so we had to send 4 documents for the application to register. And they came back saying that they have only accepted two of them, and the other two we supplied couldn't be verified. so they have asked us to send those ASAP, which we are organising now.

Further update..

so we had to send 4 documents for the application to register. And they came back saying that they have only accepted two of them, and the other two we supplied couldn't be verified. so they have asked us to send those ASAP, which we are organising now.

A quick update on what's happening. My PSW visa expires on the 27th. We emailed them, and got this response. (Sponsor Licensing Support <SponsorLicensing.Support@UKBA.gsi.gov.uk>) "Thank you for your enquiry regarding the status of your application. We can confirm that your application is being...

I hope so too. I guess, the trick was to be nice to them. We were VERY very polite in our email, which is why i guess they replied soon. i guess the people who are responding to our queries have no control, and someone higher up pushes all the important buttons. but at least if we can be nice and no...

Hi everyone, hope you are well. My company did apply for Tier 2 Sponsor application on 17.04.2012 and we are still waiting for the license. I did call them few times and email them and they informed us that we are working on the applications for the first week of April. It is nearly 6 months now. i...

Hasmil, i'm going to try to have my company follow up as a urgent business request. Does anyone know where we can send these urgent requests to? we sent it to these addresses: sponsorlicensing.support@ukba.gsi.gov.uk, scoc@ukba.gsi.gov.uk, SponsorProgress@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk i think mainly the th...

Just a quick update on what's going on with me. My current PSW Tier 1 visa expires : Oct 27 Company applied for sponsor registration + 1 unrestricted COS : Jun 26 We sent an email for urgent treatment. got generic reply: "Please note: we are currently processing cases received on April 2nd. If ...

Looks like until April they were issuing less licenses than requested. With April coming down to a shocking 44. Which was probably why all this delay was. Though looks like they are catching up little by little by issuing more licenses each month than the requested number.

Thanks very much. And as far as I know, PSW applicants are exempted from maintenance as well. Nope, this is not the case anymore. It used to be, but now they have changed the rules, where you HAVE to show the maintenance fund, or get your sponsor to say that they will take care of it on the COS. an...

muhdkhokhar wrote:

I remember they applied in November 2011 (may be in end ) then we received in June 2012. (They visited our company and did lots of check)

mind me asking what kind of checks they made? i hear that they very rarely send for checks?

Just wondering if anyone can post any details of successful applications for Sponsor Registration and CoS (unrestricted or restricted). These delays are very worrying. Also have been reading here in the forums saying that if you don't get the CoS on time to send the Tier 2 visa application anyway an...

Thanks Manci. I guess i've posted a fresh thread again with a few more questions. As for the maintenance fund I have had the £900 for while, so should be fine when i make my application. As for the timing, guess i have to just wait :) 1. Maintenance fund. A few months ago I read on the UKBA website ...