1. Category applying under: ICT Long Term + Dependent 2. Country of application : USA 3. City of Visa Application Centre : New York 4. Date of application: December 11, 2012 5. Date of submission of documents (if different from 3 above). December 27 6. Date Entry Clearance valid from: 2 years 7. Dur...

Lucapooka wrote:If she is granted the visa she will have access to the NHS. When do you intend to marry; fiancees are not eligible for dependant leave?

Is this a rule change? I was under the impression that since we have been living together for the past four years that she could apply as a partner dependent.

Hi. I have a question regarding my fiance that is applying for a dependent visa. I'm currently in the process of obtaining my T2-ICT visa. From my understanding, UK provides universal healthcare and when looking at the guidance "Partners of relevant points-based system migrants, 319D. Period an...

Hello everyone. I have been assigned a COS that ends 1/31/2015, which is same as my visa T2-ICT end date. I'm not sure why my company only requested for a two year COS, but I can already forsee that they will need me out there for at least an additional year? Thinking ahead, what issues will I encou...

Hi all. My case was not treated as an urgent case as I did not have a visa and am applying from out of country.

Hi All,

After 6 long months (applied in mid-may), my company has finally received a sponsorship license.

Can you also please let us know whether the UKBA was contacted and urgent treatment was requested for your case?

Hi Everyone, Any advice or input is appreciated. My husband and I live in the US and in July my husband was offered a research fellowship at a University outside of London. We were told that the University had everything in order and that we should give notice at our jobs, book flights, and put all...

The UKBA has been pushing out licenses the past two days. 19 on the 29th and 26 on the 30th. Hopefully this is a indicator that more resources have been assigned and we'll hear back soon on our applications.

Hello,

I was wondering if your employee was already a registered sponsor or did they have to apply for a sponsorship license.

Thanks!

Dear Experts ... Please note we have applied for Tier2 Sponsor licence and we have been approved and recieved the licence details by post ... But when we checked on management system we couldn't find any COS ... We called and spoke to UKBA and they said they have change now and we have to request f...

I wanted to post earlier but didnt have anything to share:( As most people here, my employer called them a few time to check where UKBA was in the process of according licences, with contradictory answers every time. But today I got news that my employers licence application will be treated as urge...

thanks!

Hi sushdmehta, thanks for the reference. After a read, its still not quite clear to me on whether or not a PBS dependent does have a right to work in the UK. Any clarification you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, i'm currently waiting on a Tier 2 ICT Visa. However, the plan is to have my fiance apply as a Tier 1 dependent. My question is whether or not she has the right to work in the UK if she is approved and receives her dependent visa.

After even requesting for an urgent treatment my employer contacted them one week after and this email we got from UKBA: " Dear X, Thank you for your email. I am afraid that I don’t have any contact details for the team who are dealing with the applications. If urgent treatment is granted then...

This has me very concerned. When your company's applied for the license did they use a solicitor to help them through the process. My company at least had the help of a US-based solicitor. But even so, has me concerned that they don't know the in and outs of the application process.

yeah i've been monitoring the register of sponsors as well. Hopefully they get to may applications cause that's when my company applied.

Hi All, A quick update.. Finally, received again a mail from UKBA regarding the progress made..They are still processing applications received on 4th April. After sometime, we all need to request the applications as urgent since most of us will be having visa expiring and again there will be delays...

So this information was presented in the spring 2012 issue of the noted magazine? I'm assuming this was back in March timeframe? I'm crossing my fingers that they have made some progress in getting up to speed, but not feeling confident.

SimiP, when the UKBA provided a response did they say what week of april application they are working on? It's been stuck on the first week of April for the past two months.

PGOY - the UKBA publies a list of registered sponsors here

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitec ... ofsponsors

Rehan when did your company apply for the license?

2nd week of May

I think everyone is a little worked up. Let's not forgot that UKBA is at issue here. They're messing with people livelihood and that's just not fair.