I have just heard from my wife within the last hour she has had a call from the Fedex office in Lahore to come collect her passport tomorrow and her visa has been granted!!! Allahu Akbar!
We applied on the 8th September 2009 and Visa granted today 14th October 2008. So, that's 37 calendar days including the weekends and with the holidays and closures etc. and 27 working days! quite fast.
I have been checking the
https://www.vfsglobal.org/ApplicantStatus.aspx website for the last few weeks since we applied and it states:-
Your application is ready for collection; please visit the UK Visa Application Centre where you submitted your visa application to collect the same 14 Oct 2008
I done sincere dua yesterday and so did my wife and I joked to her she will get her visa tomorrow inshallah as she was frustrated at the time it was taking and thought she would never end up in the UK with all the issues/bombings going on at the moment. Allah is all wise.
I found it a bit strange that fedex called so late at night? round about 9-10pm Pak time? unless they have another office where they have night workers??
Anyway, I am over the moon and looking forward to my wife coming.
This forum has been excellent and all the members comments really made a difference and has actually made me very interested in other types of visas and immigration rules.
Keep doing your duas brothers and sisters they do work be patient it will come at a time when you least expect it. I thought it would be lucky to get it this year! with the ways things are going, but alhamdolliah its came quicker than I thought.
Allah Haffiz.