Hi All,
Finally, we have the grand news from the HO today (or should I say BIA now
)
My wife's ILR application has now been granted successfully!
We are so so happy today! It was worth the wait - the last 4 weeks!
Pretty quick turnaround, i would say!
Incidentally, the fantastic/sweet coincidence is that the decision date the ILR sticker has in it, is the birth date of our daughter!
So sweet!
After all, it was for the reason that we wanted to have our baby delivery in India that we decided for my wife to go to India, and needless to say that caused us all the grief in the ILR application process!
Wow! The fact that the ILR sticker reflects our daughter's birth date is such a sweet coincidence!
We are feeling so so lucky today!!!!
Anyway... i just wanted to keep you guys updated with this happy ending of our ILR application saga
All ends well, that ends well!!!
What a beautiful and sweet way to begin this week!
We had a bit of celebration at my work place this afternoon! You see... guys at my work site were awaiting this news as well
:-) They instantly knew the news i was bringing-in today, the moment they saw my hands full of sweets and the "jumping and screaming out-of-joy" me!!!
Well... our full "celebrations" starts this evening
To sum up: The things we recd. in post were these:
1. All of our original documentation (well, it was not packaged in the way we had packaged it, but anyway!
)
2. My British passport
3. My wife's Indian passport with the shiny ILR sticker in it.
4. A two page printed letter form the HO that generally described about the ILR. Interesting to note here that it was not addressed to my wife, but was in a ageneral tone.
The letter fom HO also has these:
"These notes are for informational purposes only and do not convey the grant of ILR.
Confirmation of your entitlement to remain in the UK is endorsed in your passport."
And then it continues to describe the general things about ILR.
I take it this is the general practise at HO these days. When i got my ILR a couple of years back, this letter was addressed to my name!
Anyway... So the only settlement status confirmation documentation is in her passport and that is the ILR sticker with all information about my wife and the
Remarks saying
Indefenite Leave to remain in the UK and top of it it says "Type of permit: Settlement" and above that it has the
Valid until: INDEFENITE
Cheers guys.
best regards.