Hi all, I thought I'd let you all know that today, on my 9 month anniversary of being without a passport, it turned up! Unbelievable that it's taken this long, but I am so relieved it's finally been returned. It doesn't actually have a visa in it, but I think they send that seperately (fingers cross...

Congrats David! That's such exciting news!! You must be over the moon to be able to travel again. I still don't have mine back but am hoping it'll turn up shortly - I'm scheduled to run a marathon in three weeks in Frankfurt so fingers crossed it turns up before then! Enjoy planning a whole lot of t...

Wow! That's mental. Though as you say, it doesn't surprise me given how incompetent they are. I'm really glad you have such a great MP and they've managed to help sort it out. Fingers crossed you get your passport back in under the 4 weeks. I contacted my MP, who wrote to the Home Office, but they j...

Hi David Thanks for your note - wow, I can't believe there are so many of us in the same position. I was disappointed to read the response you got from the home office following the 6 month deadline. I've been counting down to my 6 month mark hoping that I would be able to get some answers about why...

Hi Liz! How rubbish is it! It's just mad that they can have your passport for so long without any explanation and for such a simple application! I still dont have mine back, it's been 21 weeks now. I've just had to cancel a two week holiday I had booked at the end of August as I was n the same boat ...

1. Category changing (switching) from:Ancestry visa to Extension to Ancestry visa 2. Date of expiry of current leave (visa) 15 March 2012 3. Date application posted Early March 4. Date payment debited Mid March 5. Payment mode Debit 6. Home office confirming receipt of application: 14 March 2012 7. ...

Hi, I'm on an NZ passport and applied for an extension to my ancestry visa using FLR (BID). I have been waiting over 18 weeks and am interested to hear what sort of timeframes others in the same category have been waiting. Details of my application are: Posted application: Early March 2012 Letter co...