14 years Illegal immigrant

[2347526]

Thank you Thandia.

I did use the site and it gave me the team dealing with my case. I have been in touch with them but to no avail. As for surviving I have come to a decision which I will reveal in due time. Thank you again.

[2347526]

[jayc]

Your best bet is to keep asking ur MP to contact them for u. Your case is file is most probably with LCC.
Email the north west customer service for exact location of ur case file.

[Rx]

I applied for ILR under the 14 year rule on 23 Feb 2006. It was finally granted on 12 Aug 2009.
I hope your case doesn't take this long.

Good luck with everything.

[William Blake]

Well I'm confused.

I thought that the 14 yr rule and the ten yr rule now featured under the same long residence criterion and that Home Office's standard time for deciding an application was 14 weeks. So why are we talking about years for a 14 yr application to be processed and are 10 yr rule applications now taking as long?

[2347526]

Your best bet is to keep asking ur MP to contact them for u. Your case is file is most probably with LCC.
Email the north west customer service for exact location of ur case file.

I have been contacting my MP about my case but to be honest I feel let down as my MP does not seem to be interested in my case. All that I am told is to get in touch 2-3 months every time I call to ask about their help on my case. I know where my case is and which department/team is dealing with it. I have been calling but I am told the standard reply "my case is in a queue and all cases will be dealt with by July 2011". I see no light at the end of my tunnel. Not now, not in July 2011.

[2347526]

I applied for ILR under the 14 year rule on 23 Feb 2006. It was finally granted on 12 Aug 2009.
I hope your case doesn't take this long.

Good luck with everything.

Thank you for your support and even though I am happy for you that you have received your ILR, you had to wait three and a half years to receive it. Time is what I do not have to waste any more. As time goes by so does my youth and what good will it be when I receive the status but it has made me lose more than what I will gain. I need to balance my life now and I want to live and not exist.

[2347526]

To the people in charge of this website.

Is it possible to change the heading from:

14 years illegal immigrant

to

15 years illegal immigrant

Please let me know. Thank you.

[2347526]

[2347526]

Monthly update on the progress of my application.

1. It has been 18 months now since I forwarded my ILR application.

2. No correspondence received from the HO.

3. I am in the process of preparing myself and my documentation to leave the country. More information when things start to get moving.

[William Blake]

well i think you should stay put but you may be able to go without jeopardising your application since 14 yr rule is based on time already accrued. Sorry mate I know its tough

[score2009]

Wait for it, mine took 12months plus to processs

[2347526]

well i think you should stay put but you may be able to go without jeopardising your application since 14 yr rule is based on time already accrued. Sorry mate I know its tough

Hi William Blake,

What do you mean by me being able to leave without jeopardising/closing my case. Please clarify for me. All help is much appreciated. Thank you.

[IMMIGRATION LAWYER]

If no removal orders (IS151A/D) were made, you could have your ILR granted, provied you meet all therequirements of the Rules.

If you were served (even on file, without your knowledge, say, when the Home Office sent you a letter and you did not recieve it), your "immigration" clock was stopped and your 14 years in the UK will not be counted.

Also criminal convictions could result in a refusal of your ILR.

Has your legal rep checked all the details, that is, a FOI request was made and a copy of your file with the Home Office was obtained prior to lodging a Settlement application ?

[2347526]

If no removal orders (IS151A/D) were made, you could have your ILR granted, provied you meet all therequirements of the Rules.

If you were served (even on file, without your knowledge, say, when the Home Office sent you a letter and you did not recieve it), your "immigration" clock was stopped and your 14 years in the UK will not be counted.

Also criminal convictions could result in a refusal of your ILR.

Has your legal rep checked all the details, that is, a FOI request was made and a copy of your file with the Home Office was obtained prior to lodging a Settlement application ?

Yes, all the checks were made, my solicitor did go through my file to check if I was served with the removal order but I was not issued one. Also I do not have any criminal records but I do not have any physical paperwork as I tried to get a CRB check on myself and I was told only a third party could be issued with that information and I could not get it myself. I have checked all the requirements needed but as the legal advicers say the list on requirements is not limited.

well i think you should stay put but you may be able to go without jeopardising your application since 14 yr rule is based on time already accrued. Sorry mate I know its tough

Please can anyone clarify this further for me. Please.

[William Blake]

Hi member,

What I had in mind was this.

The requirement for indefinite leave to remain under the long residence category states that the applicant has had...[10 or 14 years depending on your category] continuous residency. So your application would have been based on the time you had already accrued. There may be something that says your application is treated as withdrawn if you leave the UK and I would also be grateful for clarification from others on this point (but I think this could only happen i.e you would only show up as having left if you seek to reenter or are checked by immigration on departure). But if you are able to travel I imagine you could leave the UK and await the decsion abroad (if you have travel documents); that's all I had in mind. Then if you got ILR you would then need to seek entry clearance to come back and take up the ILR. But I am not 100 % sure member so check things out before you do anything.

I know things are tough for you but as you have waited so long already it may be worthwhile hanging on longer?

Do they have any indications as to how much longer it will take to process your application?

[2347526]

Do they have any indications as to how much longer it will take to process your application?

Thank you William Blake for your advice. I do not have any travel document to be able to travel and come back. Once I exit it is for good, or as I have been told I will get a ban of up to five years if I want to return. As regards to knowing how much longer it will take to get a decision, I have been told several times on the telephone by the HO that they are not dealing with my case at the moment and they have until 2011 to clear the backlog which I am among them.

[2347526]

I informed HO of my intentions to leave the country voluntary and I received a letter today saying they have lost my passport even though they told me they had it in my file. How will this affect me leaving the country and what problems do you foresee if I go without the passport back home. Please advice the best way for me to deal with this problem. Thank you.

[Nazz]

To; 2347526

I got my ILR through 14 years, and I had to wait 15 years and a half to get it, that is when I a applied at 14 years I had to wait 15 months more to get an ILR.

I came to UK in 1990, I did not see my family for all my time spent in UK, my father passed away and could not see him, through all this suffering I was patient and struggled but did manage to get it.

I know exactly what you are going through, most of the people who have been writing to you don’t, it is not easy, you have invested all these years here, wait wait and wait, you will get.

I know so many people are getting ILR through legacy cases even some of them had deportations order served on them.

Don’t loose hope, you will get it, I don’t think your journey is different than mine.

Think about it.

[Buzzer]

[quote="2347526"]I informed HO of my intentions to leave the country voluntary and I received a letter today saying they have lost my passport even though they told me they had it in my file. How will this affect me leaving the country and what problems do you foresee if I go without the passport back home. Please advice the best way for me to deal with this problem. Thank you.[/quote]

I applied in April 2008. My 14 yrs was not due until Jan 2009, I only just got a reply from the HO last week asking me to send current photos,bank statements etc..Basically everything i had sent initially to help them "consider the matter".Also had to fill out a "method of entry questionaire which they say is required as part of the decision making..
I guess when you do get to hear from them,chances are they will ask for the same; bank statements etc..i realise it might me tricky for you as you are out of work at the mo..but being able to show that you can still support yourself counts for much in getting a favourable decision..that said i hope it all goes well.hang in there!!

[2347526]

Monthly update on the progress of my application.

1. It has been 19 months now since I forwarded my ILR application.

2. No correspondence received from the HO.

[lolik12345]

I have been reading your story from begining and I think you will get your ILR,I just have this feeling and normally I always right.You have been waiting for 15 years and so easy you want to go to your country?don't give up and wait. they lost your passpor,.so they should provide you travell document and letter with ILR.That was wrong advise to go back to your country and wait for desicion there,if you will go back forget about UK.Just leave this situation and the answer will come shortly.Be strong in mind ,I know it hard, but 15 years is long period to leave everything and go back.I wish you all the best ,and maybe you will get your ILR by New Year!GOD BLESS YOU!

[Alpacino_13]

2347526,

Hope you are well....I have been reading your posts and thought of few things to bear in mind:

1. You need to be patient
2. You shouldnt have told the HO about wanting to "Depart" from the UK.
3. Stop ringing them twice a week (THEY WILL DEFO MAKE YOU WAIT) !!
4. Loads of people have been served with notices of deportation/removal but the HO have loads of discretions to waive such a thing.

PS: Also, unfortunatly, you cant change the subject to "15 years illegal immigrant" lol

Good luck mate

[taylondon]

I live very close to Turkish Community, I hear so many different cases from a lot of people.

This Cypriot - Turkish lady arrived in uk in 1993 to visit her sister without a visa ( UK was not requiring visa from Cypriot Turkish people by then) she stayed as a overstayer until 2008 and applied ILR around 10 May 2008 under the 14 years rule. She had a solicitor
by 30th of May she wanted visit her solicitor and ask if there was any process, solicitor told him '' ohh your ILR has arrived last week, I was off-sick and my assistant just forgot to call you, apologies''

so She had her ILR within just 2-3 weeks. I think that depends on every single individual. She is a 60 years old woman with no criminal history. she has never had any trouble with anybody, she was not a asylum seeker, she arrived UK legally, she kept her original passport with arriving stamped date on it, she was able to proof the date she arrived the UK, she registered to GP and dentist within 2 weeks after she arrived , she then regularly visited her dentist and made thousands of visits to her GP and obtained letters from both of them them. she was able to proof the dates of registrations and visits, she did not mention anything about her work on her application because she was not allowed to work, she was illegal immigrant in a way. She basically sent very few documants with her application.

and she got her ILR in 2-3 weeks. I also think that each time you ring HO enquiry line, the agent(s) put notes on your file regarding with what you asked and what they answered, and the caseworker can see all those. That makes your computurised file bigger and bigger, making it more complicated. They might not like you to call them oftenly. But you might get your local MP involved. HO has got a completely seperate department to just deal with MPs enquiry, HO even got a seperate telephone line for MPs immigration enquiries.
If your MP calls them or write them, they would have to answer your MP within a certain time

[jko]

You need to actively purse the HO for a decision regarding your application by contacting your local MP to contact the HO on your behalf. I applied to the HO for ILR based on 14yrs long residence in 2006. I did not receive a decesion from them despite the numerous letters sent to them by my solicitor, the only letter I got from them was a standard letter that my application was in a que and any time I call their customer service they always tell me my application is awaiting 'further consideration'. I contacted my local MP this year who wrote them to find out what was causing delay with my application. Within four weeks of the MP's letter to them, they replied back that a decision will be made regarding my application by the end of December,2009, this was in June. Two months later (August), I received a letter to send proof of address and to complete 'immigration status questionnaire' and three days after sending the documents back (September), I was granted ILR. So dont give up. Good luck.