YankeeKiki wrote:waitwaitwait wrote:YankeeKiki wrote:Eligibility criteria: 10 years residence + 1 year ILR
Language criteria met (UK degree, exempt countries, PBS used documents, NARIC, or B1 test): Exempt countries, UK degree
Current nationality: USA
Method of application: NCS
Council name if NCS used: Wandsworth
Date of application: 25/10/14
Payment method CC/DC, Personal cheque, Bankers cheque etc: CC
Date of receipt by UKBA: 28/10/2014
Date of acknowledgment: Waiting
Date of debit or clearance of fees: Waiting
Date approval received: Waiting
Date of ceremony: Waiting
It's been 3 weeks since they received it (according to the Post Office tracking ref) and payment still hasn't been deducted, so I'm starting to get nervous! Barclaycard said about 10 days ago that they hadn't blocked any payment, but didn't deal with the part of my inquiry that asked them to make sure they didn't do so in future so I'm not sure whether I need to check with them again.
That is strange that Barclaycard couldn't deal with your enquiry because it is quite common for credit card companies to block big payments to avoid fraud. I called mbna after sending my application and customer service transferred me to their fraud prevention team. I explained the situation to which the adviser said she will put a note on the system for a month that if home office applies for £906 please authorise it as i notified them in advance with precise information of the amount.
Call barclaycard and if possible ask them to transfer you to fraud prevention team.
Good luck
It wasn't that they 'couldn't' deal with my enquiry, because I was in the States at the time I sent my question via their message service rather than calling. I basically asked 'has x been blocked, and if not could you please make sure that it doesn't get blocked in the future?' and they sent me an automated response which addressed 1 but not 2.
I spoke to them on the phone today and they said they definitely haven't blocked it, and that they'd put a note on the system not to do so. So now I'm worried!Thanks for your response.
Hi YankeeKiki,
Only about 2 hours ago, I finally saw a 906 deduction from my available credit balance on my credit card account. The receipt date was 27th for my application. It took them that long to put the transaction through. Your application date is later that mine. So yours is probably going to go through in this week or coming week.
What a relief for now, I thought there was some problem with my card.
Hope this will give you some idea for the timing as well.
update:
Eligibility criteria: Spouse 2 years + 10 years in the UK
Method of application: NCS Cardiff
Date of application: 24/10/2014
Payment method: credit card
Date of receipt by UKBA: 27/10/14
Date of acknowledgment: waiting
Date of debit or clearance of fees: debited on 19th Nov
Date approval received:
Date of ceremony: