Progress on settlement visa application

[Dansette]

Hi

My wife is a US Citizen, currently living in the US. I'm a UK citizen currently living in the UK.

My wife's settlement visa application was acknowledged by the LA processing centre on July 1.

I know about the average processing times they state at :

http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/en/howtoapply/processingtimes

So we are not quite at 30 working days yet.

But I was wondering (even though they say they can't do it), if there was a way to get status on an application. It would be great to find out exactly how long this will take.

Is there any way anyone knows how to speed up an application?

cheers

[ElenaW]

Hi

My wife is a US Citizen, currently living in the US. I'm a UK citizen currently living in the UK.

My wife's settlement visa application was acknowledged by the LA processing centre on July 1.

I know about the average processing times they state at :

http://www.ukvisas.gov.uk/en/howtoapply/processingtimes

So we are not quite at 30 working days yet.

But I was wondering (even though they say they can't do it), if there was a way to get status on an application. It would be great to find out exactly how long this will take.

Is there any way anyone knows how to speed up an application?

cheers

It used to be that you could pay an expeditor to take your application and bring it to the front of the queue but they no longer have this service. Sorry but you will just have to wait it out if you have not paid for quicker processing (they promise a 15 day deciscion if you have).

[Dansette]

OK thanks for the reply.

cheers

[moocifer]

It used to be that you could pay an expeditor to take your application and bring it to the front of the queue but they no longer have this service. Sorry but you will just have to wait it out if you have not paid for quicker processing (they promise a 15 day deciscion if you have).

Where is/was this "pay for quicker processing" option ?? I must have missed it otherwise I would have gone for that myself ..

[ElenaW]

It used to be that you could pay an expeditor to take your application and bring it to the front of the queue but they no longer have this service. Sorry but you will just have to wait it out if you have not paid for quicker processing (they promise a 15 day deciscion if you have).

Where is/was this "pay for quicker processing" option ?? I must have missed it otherwise I would have gone for that myself ..

After completion of the online application, there was a choice to have it be delievered by courier. This is where you had to do research and pick your own expeditor such as Allstar. I'm not so up to date with the quicker processing now. I Just know that it costs twice as much and they take more than 2x the time to process it than the previous couriers.