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I applied under the terms of HSMP Judicial Review, so my experiences differ a little from those of Work Permit holders - hope this will be useful for fellow HSMPians.
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I arrived to Croydon PEO at 8:15 with appointment scheduled for 9:30 (I planned to be there at 8:30, but tube and rail worked surprisingly well
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Guard told me to come back at 9:00 - D'OH! So much for waking up early.
Eventually I was let in at 8:50.
Security check was fairly quick, and could have been even faster if not for some people keeping things in pockets when told not to
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Then queued for initial document check (separate queue for people with form SET/O: mostly people with WPs, I think I was the only one with HSMP) - about 10 minutes.
Initial documents check: asked for application form, current passport, previous passport. Got ticket number, and was sent to pay.
Payment queue: roughly 15 minutes. Paid by credit card, but person in front of me paid by cash (so it is definitely accepted).
I also had debit card, cash, and cheque with me - in case if credit card would not work
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After payment was sent to the other part of the same floor, but nearly immediately called and told to go to the floor above (no idea what was that about - possibly they do biometrics there, but I'm non-biometric
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Waited for about 10 minutes and got called by case-worker. She took the application form and payment receipt, and asked me which documents I have prepared (she did not ask for specific documents herself!).
I gave her (in addition to the application form):
- current passport
- old passport (with my initial 1 year HSMP permit)
- reference letter from the employer (standard "To whom it may concern" format with mention of role title, salary, and start date)
- 4 payslips (from the last 7 months; I was unemployed several times in 2009 so had only 1 payslip in the last 3 months)
- 10 months of bank statements (including statement for the last month that was printed and stamped at my local bank branch; in total about 6 salaries in statements; I marked salaries with post-it notes for convenience)
- police certificate
and that was it (no P60s, no old statements). Then I was told to wait for 40-60 minutes.
40 minutes later case-worker lady called me, told me that I was granted settlement
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Went to customer service, waited for about 20 minutes and got my passport (and ILR leaflet basically confirming that there is no more limitations, that no more police registration needed, etc).
And that was it. 15 minutes later I was in the train to London Bridge, a new permanent resident of this country
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Total time:
2 hours and 20 minutes from entry to exit.
Experience:
Very good - everyone at PEO was very polite; people know what they are doing, and visitors are literally guided from window to window to speed up the process
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