Hi guys,
Its bad news!!!!
My wife's ILR application was not even considered and the girl at the reception was very very very very rude to us!
The moment she saw that my wife was away to India for 5.5 months, she said she was
not happy to process this application and asked us to leave the office!!!!!!
The moment she said that, i asked her why she is asking us to lave the building and she replied we won;t be considered because we did not spend the whole 2 years continuously.
I explained to her that we had written a nice cover letter explainging that we decided to have the pregnancy in India (with loads of documentary evidence, including my very periodic visits to India to see my family, 1000s of £ of telephonic conversations, emails etc. across this 6 months!) and once we were there in India, she had medical complications (fibroids, cyst, et al) and the baby was delivered premature 6 weeks and that the doctor advised her to stay in India until the baby was 3-4 months old and so she stayed.
But she was very rude and said she was not ready to listen or read any cover letters and simply asked us to go!
Then i asked to speak to a supervisor and she asked us to go to another counter.
The lady there did not accept to any of our explanations and simply said that anything more than
3 weeks of absence means the spouse visa probabtion period has been violated and my wife did not deserve the ILR
We just had to come back - no other go!
We will now apply through post to see if a discretion can be excersiced and possibly my wife will atleast get a 6 months extension of her spouse visa.
Anyway, i would have made huge money by then (in another 6 months) and i am planning to emigrate back to India for good with my family!
I don't want to go around begging for an ILR or FLR again, for my wife in future after an initial 6 months. Its just not worth it being in this country anymore. especially with an immigration system that has complete dis-respect for one's freedom / rights to personal decisions.
In spite of explaining that we decided to have delivery in India for medical reasons, they simply treated us in a disgraceful way.
One more FLR for that 6 months gap and that's probably it! We will emigrate back to India, where, as a family, we have full freedom to decide stuff about our family's interests and don't have to consult immigration department!
OK - enough of my moaning
. For others who are applying in person for spouse ILR, remember that if you or your spouse has been away for more than 3 weeks (even as holidays, and that is exactly what the supervisor lady told us!!!!!), it will be treated as
Outside the rules case and will be rejected for breaking the spouse visa UK stay requirement and hence can only get an FLR.
Good luck to all and I hope at least
busubi would have been successful today!