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by kindley » Thu Jan 28, 2010 4:00 pm
[quote="Saarang"]Hi all,
First of all thanks to the members of this forum who provided and shared loads of information about their knowledge and experience on UKBA.
Let me share my pleasant experience at Sheffield PEO for our ILR this week. I applied for ILR under the Tier 2 migrant category (4.5 years WP + 0.5 years Tier2). I took my dependents with me even though the UKBA staff over phone said dependents are not needed but if I wish I could bring them along (Two brains tackle better than a single).
Our appointment was at 10:00am and we reached there at 9:00am. After security we went to registration counter and got the token number.
At 9:15 I was called at one of the counters for initial checking.
The documents asked are as follows:
1. SET (O) application with photos (1 set taken and inset returned) and PPs
2. Pay slips and bank statements (I gave last 3 months only)
3. KOL in UK – both me and my spouse.
4. Letter from employer
5. Any WP docs from UKBA (I said, I don’t have any as the employer has them all - she said no problem)
I prepared a separate sheet of the days of absences from the UK (129 personal+29 business) and attached with the application.
I took loads of docs with me (marriage cert, birth cert, 5 P60s etc) but nothing else was asked.
I was asked whether I intend to travel outside UK in the next 28 days, I said, ‘No’. She took the application + 1 set of photo + PPs with her and gave me a file with the supporting docs and asked me to handover the file and pay the fee at the payment counter. By 9:40am I paid the fee (£1120) and waited for my token no. to be called.
At 10:00am, an UKBA staff called me at a counter and introduced her as the caseworker (CW) for my application that day. She told me that hope she had received all the required docs and would let me know her decision in 1 hr.
During the 5 year period I travelled (personal) to Swiss twice (3 days and 4 days). Since I travelled on a UK WP visa the Swiss immigration authorities didn’t stamp my entry and exit to Swiss. No exit stamp from UK as well, because UK only stamps when we come into the country. So there were two entry stamps without the matching exit stamps which were not my fault. First I worried about that and then advised by the forum members not to as the UKBA has all those info and just fill in all the dates I travelled outside UK in the sheet/application. I put down all my travel dates and reasons.
At 10:35, the CW called me and said,â€
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kindley on Sat Jan 30, 2010 10:33 am, edited 2 times in total.
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