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Thanks for the reply. Just two more questions. How did you book the appointment for all the family? Did you phone them or though their website? and did you all go to the PEO or just you. The fee you mentioned £1,350 was for one child (over 18years) or both?raghusn wrote:Thanks. We used Set O forms. I believe Set (M) is to be used if the dependent is applying at a later date than the main applicant. The fee was £1350.
Thank you Raghusn for the prompt reply. Yes I'll see how it works my ILR is still 3 months away. I know they do ask for all the applicants to attend the PEO but on this forum everyone is saying that we don't need to take all the family just the main applicant, thats why I asked the question. So in essence you all went and were you all interviewed by the CW or just you?raghusn wrote:mk357, we had booked through the website. I think the online booking process has changed recently. As we progress through the booking, it asks for dependents details and also informs that all the dependents should attend the interview. May be you can register and go through the process till the last step just to get familiar with the process. There is an option to pay on line but I preferred to do it at the PEO.
The fee was £1350 for each application, therefore I paid £2700 in all for the two dependent applications, in addition to the £ 2700 for my main application ( myself, and two dependents - wife and 16 year old son)
Hope this helps.
Hi Raghusn. Thanks again, this clarifies the situation now. You get the message in the box when you reply by pressing the "quote" button on the right side of the message rather than pressing "reply".raghusn wrote:Yes, we all went. My wife and son were not even seen by the case worker. My daughters making their separate applications just handed in their applications and the LITUK certificates and their part was over. The caseworker went through the application form page by page and asked few cursory questions. I was sitting in front of her for about 10 minutes. Then she asked me to either wait in the hall or to go out and come back in about 90 minutes. We left her in peace and waited in the hall a few chairs away. Exactly after 90 minutes she called us and gave the good news and returned the documents.
BTW, how do you get my message in a box in your reply? I am not very familiar with how this works and will be grateful to know.
raghusn wrote:Further to my earlier post
We wrote to the UKBA requesting backdating of our ILR to the date we appeared at Solihull. We wrote that in the light of Jami's correspondence with UKBA (http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/i ... ing-192235) and also as we know that many cases of long absences were in fact decided at Solihull, the refusal to process our application was wrong."I hope I have covered all the salient points. Though it is not directly connected, I will mention a side-issue. Our second daughter is starting her Law degree course this year. We were very anxious that we have our ILR on 1st September, the cut-off date for deciding her fee status. ILR on or before 1st Sept, would have made her status ‘home student’ and resulted in a saving of about £ 45,000 over the next three years. Now we plan to write to UKBA to confirm that we were eligible for ILR on31st August, but were unable to obtain it due to limitations at Solihull. I know it is a long shot, but we will give it a try! I will be thankful if any of the boarders could share with us similar experiences on this front."
On November 9th, two months after we wrote, UKBA have written a letter agreeing to backdate the ILR date and asking us to send our passports to their office.
We are, needless to say, overjoyed as it is a matter of £76,000 of university fees.
Our heartfelt thanks to our MP who took up our case strongly with UKBA. I think it had a very large influence on their decision.
Many thanks to our friends in the forum from where I got lots of information on the basis of which we had contested UKBAs action.
jami wrote:Congratulations. Very good news for those afraid of raising issues with UKBA.
Another aspect of this post is use of MP. Immigrants are hesitant of joining any political party of UK. Whereas when they register for vote shortly after arrival in UK (though not for voting but for other reasons) they should consider becoming member of any party. At least one member of household should be member if not the main applicant. MPs are very easily accessible to all the residents of their constituency and are usually helpful as only very few people contact them for any issue.