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by HRH » Thu Mar 03, 2016 8:06 pm
Hi,
I would start first of all Thanking ST2447 for sharing this inspiring story & congratulating all who have successfully gone through this process.
About Me
I, my wife & our son ; all British Citizens were based in London. I & my wife were both Financial Service Professionals. Despite of stable jobs, own property & earnings above the threshold limit set for sponsoring the elderly dependents, we were unable to bring my elderly parents from India to join us.
In 2012, on two different occasions, my father had two brain hemorrhages leaving him completely paralyzed. Being the only son, I would visit India almost every two months as I was more worried about losing my mum, who despite of her age & all the trauma was single evenhandedly looking after my father.
After all this juggling, in 2014 I, my wife & son moved to India & the same year, I lost my father to yet another hemorrhage. Technically for almost 2 years, I moved the so called CENTRE OF LIFE from UK to India to unify my family but I can't use this towards getting my mum permission to stay in UK.
Desperate to return to London & resume our normal life, I decided to pursue SS Route & exercise my Treaty rights in IRELAND. Having gone through many forums & scenarios from 2012-16, I realised that things are not straight forward. Some of the experts suggest to go for C- Visa while some suggest D.
On 07 Jan 2016, I applied for Long Stay (D) visa under EU Family member category at Pune vfs which was received by Delhi Visa office on 08 Jan'16...... Since then, I have been waiting for the visa.
I have written to Visa office on 5-6 occasions expressing my concern whilst prompting them to ask me for more documents, (if they need)... But the answer is still the same, "Your visa application is under process due to some checks .As soon as a decision will be taken, you will be notified".
Could someone please suggest if I made a mistake by applying for D (Long stay) visa, if so then would you suggest to withdraw application & make a fresh application for C (short stay) visa?