mattp - That's quite cheeky of them not to tell you anything until it's been exactly 6 months. Before my fiancee visa, I was on a 2 year Youth Mobility Visa (previously called a working holiday visa). So I had already been employed in the UK full-time, had a NI no., bank account, and a considerable ...

Thank you mattp - I'm sorry to see that you've had to wait so long and are still waiting. It seems quite unfair? I actually wasn't aware of the wait times for this visa and had assumed (ignorantly) that it would only take a couple weeks. It was only until I came to this site that I realised it could...

My timeline: Date Applied/Docs Sent: 5/12/2011 Date Received Ack. Letter: 12/12/2011 Date Biometrics Letter Arrived: 16/12/2011 Date Submitted Biometrics at PO: 19/12/2011 Date Received Biometrics Residence Permit: 20/01/2012 (yay!) Date Passport/Docs Received from HO: 21/01/2012 Visa Type: FLR(M) f...