bunty4ILR wrote:squirrel_land wrote:Hi,
first of all a big thank you to this forum and people who created this section which helped me in my application.
I sent my application off on 21th June 2011 but soon it got sent back invalid because the UKBA was not able to receive the application fee using the card number I provided on the application form.
I have noticed my bank beforehand that UKBA would get certain amount of money from my bank account but it got refused somehow, so I wrote a cheque and resubmitted my application on 1st July 2011.
After two months of waiting, I got my passport back on 7th September 2011 with my ILR visa on it
, though on the letter of approval it stated that my case was approved on 26th August 2011, it took more than 10 days to reach back to me
Congratzzz squirrel_land
Can I just ask you couple of things. How did u receive your documents back when home office made yr application invalid? royal mail special delivery or recorded delivery? Also when yr application was made invalid did u still valid leave to remain or yr visa was already expired?
Ta
Hi bunty4ILR,
Thanks!
Basically I used a solicitor for my case as I needed to make sure that IT would go well, this maybe my once in a life time chance as I heard a lot of news that the gov was fading out 10 year long stay residency, but after having a solicitor I found that they were completely useless, I came to this site to gather all the information that I needed for everything, well, I suppose I just some assurance for this one to go well so badly:oops: .
So when UKBA couldn't process the payment the first time they returned my files to my solicitor and my solicitor phoned me up and asked me to pay UKBA by postal order, I popped into my local post office and the staff was quite surprised that I was gonna send £972 by postal order as for each postal order there is a limit which is £250 plus fees of £10(correct me if I'm wrong), if I were to send it by postal order I'd need 4 postal orders and fees of $40, that would not be very economically to do comparing sending a cheque, so I phoned my solicitor up and explained the situation and questioned her why she asked me to do the expensive way, she said she DID NOT KNOW, then saying that sending a cheque would be okay, as I mentioned it before, this solicitor is useless, I even knew more stuff than she could've offered me thanks to his forum, as a result, I sent a cheque off to my solicitor and she resubmitted the application afterwards.
I had a Tier 2 General work permit which expires in 2013 therefore it didn't affect me.