My BRP arrived today (oddly, I didn't get an approval letter, not that I'm complaining)! So here is my timeline: Current Visa: Spousal (2 yrs) Date current visa expired: 16/06/12 Applied at Cambridge Settlement Checking Service 06/06/12 -- SET(M), no dependents Application received 07/06/12 Acknowle...

For what it's worth, here is a letter from the UKBA about May applications -- a very discouraging one -- that was posted on the internet: Customer Services Improvement Directorate. North West Correspondence Team UK Border Agency PO Box 306 Liverpool L2 0QN Mr. Khan [FOI #123969 email] 02 October 201...

It has been way over 37 working days since several SET(M)applicants on this board, including me, had our biometrics done, and we have not yet received our BRP's. But I note that there are also SET(O) applicants for whom that is true. I am not at all sure that the claim about 37 days is correct, espe...

This is remarkable -- several people on this forum have mentioned that SET(O) applications seem to take longer than SET(M) ones, yet they have already processed almost 50% of the SET(O) applications from the week of the 11th of June, whereas, according to the letter I recieved from the UKBA today (s...

I have just received a response from the UKBA in response to my letter enquiring about processing times for SET (M) applications received in the first week of June. The letter, which is dated the 25th of September, states that 509 SET(M) applications were received in the week of June 4th, and 44 of ...

I have just received a response from the UKBA in response to my letter enquiring about processing times for SET (M) applications received in the first week of June. The letter, which is dated the 25th of September, states that 509 SET(M) applications were received in the week of June 4th, and 44 of ...

No, there is no consistency -- that is what is so maddening, and nerve-wracking. When my MP asked about the wide disparity for processing times, she was told it depended on the caseworker's caseload. That makes no sense: why would some caseworkers be given three times as many applications to process...

According to my MP's senior caseworker, who has tried in vain to get my own application "expedited" (I had an urgent professional reason for going to France, a wonderful fellowship -- but it's too late now), the UKBA does recognize urgent medical reasons for travel, but whether that just m...

This is absolutely outrageous! What possible reason can there be for such a delay? I feel for you, especially since many people who applied after you have already received their ILR, and you had an urgent reason for wanting it speedily. I am a writer and journalist, and I am seriously thinking of wr...

This is unbelievably fast! Congratulations to you...but it is mystifying how some people get it in 10, 12, 14 weeks while others wait 24 or more. Does anyone have an explanation for this? Is it really just a matter of which caseworker one gets? I had everything vetted and certified by the Settlement...

Sure -- that would be great! http://www.immigrationboards.com/viewtopic.php?p=708044#708044[/quote][/quote] Not sure if JeanR will start a thread for JUNE APPLICANTS. I think he wants to but then he asks someone to add his name to the June applicants.. I can start a thread if that is ok ?? Let me kn...

Can you add my dates to the list of June applicants? I applied on the 6th of June, via the Cambridge Settlement Checking Service. Got a biometrics letter on the 6th of August and had them taken the same day. Since then, nothing. JeanR I applied on 11/06/12 biometrics 10/08/12- luciel recieved this w...

Can you please tell me how to start a thread? I would like to start one for June applicants, but I don't know how to go about it.

Thanks very much.

dadageer wrote:All July applicants please update your status here:

http://www.immigrationboards.com/viewto ... 044#708044

Oh no! I really hope this is not true! After reading several people in this forum who strongly recommended getting your MP on it, I asked mine to write, and then to phone and enquire! Has anybody else heard that they resent people asking on the applicant's behalf and deliberately slow down? In fact,...

You are really lucky! I had my biometrics taken on the 6th of August -- two days before you -- and when my MP phoned last week she was told that my case was "under consideration". In other words (since it's a totally straightforward Set (M) case, with all the documents certified by the Set...

I am a journalist who has published in a lot of newspapers and magazines in America, and I definitely intend to try to publish something about the way we (that is, the people on this board who are applying for ILR as spouses, and have been tortured by the long waits and the uncertainty and the absol...

I was told by the Cambridge Settlement Service that it would take 16 weeks, which was also untrue. And my MP's efforts to expedite my application -- I applied in the first week of June, and had an "urgent professional reason", in fact a great fellowship, that was supposed to begin in Franc...