ILR success( work permit+Tier 2) @Solihull 15/6

[Potatoruby]

Hi all,
I applied for work permit in July 2007 and granted 3 years work permit after that I applied for Tier 2 in 2010 and granted 2 years visa! I worked with same company for 5 years!
My wife came to join me in Jan 2010.

I booked online exactly 42 days before the appointment day!
My nearest one is London Croydon but lots of member mentioned solihull is the best one so I chose Solihull and I am really glad I did even though it took me 3 hrs to drive there!!! Very polite and had really good experience!
Our appointment was 10 and we arrived at 9.30 coz they said you will need 30 mins time for security check, actually it only took 2 mins! We waited 1 hr until our number is called!
We went to the counter and the case lady was really nice. She asked for our application form, passports, biometric cards and life in the uk test then she did some checking for our pervious visa and asked me still with same employee or not and told us we score 100%!!
Then she looked at my absent days in uk and i wrote down the total of 92 days and she said nothing and then looked at the criminal page and i have none offence and at the end she looked at the SOC code page and checked my code and salary!
After that she asked for my employment letter, 3 months payslip, 3 months bank statements, and proof of cohabitation letter( we brought a lot of letters and let her chose) She chose 3 letters (for 2010,2011 and 2012) joint name one is better!
Finally, after 15 mins, she told us our ILR is granted and gave us back our passports and told us to make the payment at next counter and went out to take the biometric details and after 1 hr 30 mins and we can come back to collect our approval letters and doc back!
We waited around 15 mins, our number was called and took our biometric details.
We left the building around 11.30 and went to the shopping center and had lunch and came back exactly 1 hr 30 mins later and the lady asked our token number and she went inside and checked! She said it was ready and gave us back our doc and approval letter and told us to wait 7-10 days for biometric card to arrive!
Now we are waiting for our cards and we are so glad that we found this forum and it helped us a lot!! Thank you everyone!!!!!