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by endivolac » Thu Jun 07, 2012 1:54 pm
[quote="Aussie1987"][quote="AngieLynn09"]Has ANYONE received their visa?!?![/quote]
No..... 19 weeks and counting.....[/quote]
Hi Annie,
I received my visa after waiting around 5 months, it took writing to my MP to finally speed up the process (it does work writing to your MP, if they seem unhelpful just keeping writing to them).
I think it seems like a lot of people once they gte their visa tend to stop coming to this website and writing which makes it seem like no-one is progessing. They are but its people who are still stuck in this stupid bureacracy who mainly write here. Don't give up, me and my partner were going insane with worry, it does get sorted eventually.
The UKBA is completely useless, I also have wrote a letter of complaint to my MP and to some of the people that have been listed on this site, hope it will help for future people.
DON'Ts
- Call UKBA if your app hasn't been with them for less than 6 months, useless, unsympathetic people only seem to work there.
- Writing or emailing them, same response as above.
- Worry if you think you haven't given enough documents. The UKBA will contact you and ask for more if they need them. I was asked for several more and after they were sent it was approved and sent out in 3 days.
DO's
- Contact your MP. Explain your situation, give details of your application, make a face to face appointment if you really want to show how much this nightmare is affecting you. They can make an enquiry (if they say they can't, they are lying, I will happily forward my email enquiry sent my MP to them).
- Keep posting here, it really helps others to share your experiences, although it tends to be bad news, it helps to know that it isn't just you.
MAYBE's
- Request return of your PARTNER's passport. Asking to return any other document will invalidate your application. Asking for your partners passport back is allowed as they are already here and have permission (be that through being a UK citizen or form another visa). I say maybe is this will not affect your app (spoke 3 times to UKBA about this, they will tell you this information at least), but it has no guarantee of speeding anything up.