Jai Jawan,

I am also from India and I had the same question, as my mother is dependent on me. I had asked this quesdtion to Britih High Commission office, Mumbai via email, and they replied that, I can not take her as my dependent, but can definitely invite her on Visitor VISA.

Dear Shoaib adn amhilde, THanx for the info you people have provided. DO the banks need any minimum ammount to open account with? eg. in India we ahve almost everybank has its own requirement of minimum amount ranging from Rs. 500 to Rs. 5000. And Shoaib, whats is the basic account and what would u ...

Saurabh, Can you please specify whther you got HSMP approval or WorkPermit Approval? because if you have got HSMP approval, no need to show any UK Employer sponsor letter to get visa and no need to have any employment in UK as well. But if its a Workpermit then, these questions don't arise at all, a...

Good News Dear!

Lets wait for official declaration of the change in limit of stay out side UK.

THanx dear DeepThroat for sharing such a nice news, coincidently another frined of mine also shared the same with me a just a moment back.

Wish u all the best dear....

Dear Jaipur, u can fdefintely phone them and ask the decision, don't worry to ask the lady or a gentleman on line if u couldn't hear it properly or it was not clear to you. THey definitely tell your decision over the phone. THis is only if u want to remove your enxiety, else the best way is to wait,...

Dear Ukindia, Lucky you to get your file decided. Hope for the best and expect that it must be approved. These days, i think it takes hardly a week to deliver the documents from UK to your doorstep in India. So, may be by this weekend you will get your documents and decision letter. Hope Jaipur woul...

THanx John for the wishes and join us in the sorrows. Even we read about the cyclon yesettrday in UK, God only knows what dioes he want to do with this plante earth adn all its creatures. We had extremelly heavy rains first here in Ahmedabad (my hometown) and places aroudn here, many people includin...

Dear JAipur,

Did you call the HO? could hear about your decision? could u confirm whether its Approved? or you have already recieved your documetns back?

Wiush you all the best.

Hi Friends, I also got my EC approved in just a day (as I applied here in Ahmedabad VFS on 25th, my passport and other documents reached Mumbai BHC the next day, and I could check my status online the same day evening, it showed that my apssport was recieved back by VFS, Mumbai). So, ultimately, my ...

Dear Spiderking,

Of course you can do so. Its well understood that the MAsters can eb done only after Bachelors (Graduation), so waht they require is a minimum of graduate level degree, Just go ahead with the MAster's Degree Certificate.

Dhaval

You are right Olisum, From Iftekhar's case also it seems the same case, as he has mentioend "Refused HSMP by ECO" which means he was approved HSMP and failed to get EC. I even knwo many frineds of mine, who are better then me writting english, but when it comes to conversation, they are fa...

yes rao,

you are right that you can claim earnign points for the income on which u have pauid tax or lets say it in other words that the source of income, which u have shown on your income tax return.

dear iftekhar,

Its really strange, as we do not claim any points for english lebuage and from the documents we submit, how can one know whether one knows english or not? do let us know as John as asked, at what stage u are refused?

Saurabh, this you must have thought at the time of applying and spending nearly your one month's salary on application fees for HSMP. You would have even done as urvey on web for your specific field. If you were satisfied with what you ahve here in India, you must have not appleid for HSMP at all. I...

Sorry Jaipur
and
THank you Rao

For correcting me

Dear Jaipur, You can phone them or send a mail requesting the decision. On phone they'll definitely tell you your decision. But these days they even send the decision by mail, one of my frineds has also recieved her decision in mail. Call them on 0044-144-259-1894 and give ur full name, date of birt...

Hi Saurabh, Your marrital status at the time of applying for HSMP has nothign to do with the EC for you and your wife. You can apply together if you wish, and if u have sufficient funds to show for both of yours survival. I think there is nothing like drop box, but yes, u can take service of VFS loc...

Golauk,

You sauid u got EC from Delhi in jsut two days for your family (wife and kid) with around 10,000 GBP available. I wanted to know whether you had a job offer in hand while applying for EC? was that shown in the EC application as well?

Dhaval

hi gola and simar, i am also sailing in the same boat as simar, i am plannign to apply for me, my wife and 3 years old kid togather. I thoguht too much and now have deicded to give it a try bny applying all togather. I have my mother sponsoring me, I have nearly 4000 GBP on my own name (in savings b...

thanx guys, SO, NHS has now 2 over 1 vote to win. From both, John and amhilde, of yours posts, it seems more clear that, NHS is not at all a worse or worst service. Its always expected to have some bad experiences, that can even happen where you are paying full for your tratment, the doctors may eve...

Thanx Olisum,

I think in this case, i would at elast say that our GEneral Hospitals are far better and humanitarian staff is there in comparision with NHS.

You are right, lets all pray that Nobody falls seek in that cuntry

HI VP,

SO far as i know it doesn't take more than 4 days and less than 2 days for EC from Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai. No idea about Kolkata.

All the best,

Thanks John, Thank you very much for making both of the points clear. Can u pelase explain me with an example how and why people consideres it as a bad or worse thing? I know in India also we have general hospitals, where usaully poor people go as the service is very poor, the staff is too arrogant,...

Hi Ravish, I am not from mumbai though, but not very far from you as well. I am from Ahmedabad, adn have recently got HSMP approved. I am planning to fiel EC by early next week and fly to UK in mid september. Do let me know if we can keep in touch, u can contact me on my email or yahoo messenger fro...