URGENT - Incorrect date on Immigration Stamping

ssrgh · Post by **ssrgh** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 3:32 pm

Dear Friends,

I am in bit of a situation and need your expert advise.
I have my ILR appointment in a week’s time. I was going through my passport to list the time spent outside UK in last 5 years. I did travel to India on 24th Oct 2008 and returned back on 2nd Nov 2008. However, the immigration stamp at Heathrow T2 has been stamped with a date of 23rd Sept 2008. I do not know how to resolve this and what impact it will have on my application. I fairly certain that the only time I was outside UK was between 24th Oct to0 2nd Nov 2008. I can also see an outbound immigration stamp at Indian airport dated 02nd Nov 2008 .
Can you please advise ?

Ramana66 · Post by **Ramana66** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 6:05 pm

Do you have airline tickets, boarding card copies etc (though remote chance), but if you have those then you can submit them as a proof for your arrival date.

ssrgh · Post by **ssrgh** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 6:14 pm

Thanks Ramana,

I do have my e Ticket and surprisingly found the boarding pass in my old file. Will it be sufficient ?

Do you know if there is a way of getting this corrected in the passport ?

cs95tdg · Post by **cs95tdg** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 9:59 pm

You should be fine, if you have proof of travel. As you appear to have your e-ticket and boarding passes I don't see an issue. Additionally you say the departure stamp in your destination country is correct in your passport, which will serve as further confirmation.

ssrgh · Post by **ssrgh** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 10:09 pm

Thank you

I do have E ticket (Inbound/outbound) and boarding pass form my journey from B'lore India to London Heatrow.

Any thoughts on whether I need make it explicitly clear to them while handing over the application ? please advise.

Regards

Gagan1986 · Post by **Gagan1986** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 10:14 pm

ssrgh wrote:Thank you

I do have E ticket (Inbound/outbound) and boarding pass form my journey from B'lore India to London Heatrow.

Any thoughts on whether I need make it explicitly clear to them while handing over the application ? please advise.

Regards

Just write the original dates in the column where it says dates in and exit. Don't offer it straightaway, only give it if they ask you for it. You will just end up making your straightforward case unnecessarily complicated

ssrgh · Post by **ssrgh** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 10:11 pm

Thanks Gagan

All - anybody faced similar issue ?

ssrgh · Post by **ssrgh** » Thu Mar 07, 2013 10:16 pm

Thank you all for you valuable suggestions.

I got my ILR. They did not ask me anything apart from my earning details and LUK certificate.

Just in case if it helps anyone else, this is what I did as a prepeartion if I had to explain the date issue

Informed my employer, highlighting that the I was working in UK on the incorrect date of arrival stamping.
Got a letter from my employer confirming my visa and annual leave details. Also highlighting that I was not on any overseas assignment

Carried all available e-Tickets/Boarding passes with me

Gagan - special thanks, I was really confused on how to tackle the issue.

Gagan1986 · Post by **Gagan1986** » Thu Mar 07, 2013 10:18 pm

Fantastic great to hear the advice helped. Congrats

sh1981 · Post by **sh1981** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 2:41 am

maybe you travelled back in time

ssrgh · Post by **ssrgh** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 10:23 pm

That's probably the best one liner to summarise what I did

Post by **sheraz7** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 11:01 pm

Many thanks for sharing your experience. You did good to clarify your doubts while applying and get relevant suggestion.

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URGENT - Incorrect date on Immigration Stamping

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URGENT - Incorrect date on Immigration Stamping