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Hi All,

I have had my ILR approved along with 2 dependents (wife&kid) on 22/06/11. My case was submitted on 21/06/11 through a specialist immigration firm. I have also extended my tier-1 10 days prior to my ILR application(ofcourse i had to spent awful lots of money on tier-1 extension & ILR for peace of mind). Well my history is as

1. WP (Entry clearance May2006)
2.Switched to Tier-1 (july 2008)
3. 184 days absences abroad (excluding departure/arrival dates)
4. Iam an indian national, my wife a pakistani and my son uk born holding indian passport...seems to be rare and odd combination lol. Love has no boundries...

Ladies & Gents for any questions i am happy to answer as i been following this forum every day/night since last 2 months and helped in preparing my documents and posing questions to my solicitor for clarification.

Congratulations Rakhi...

I have sent you a PM please reply..

rakhi117 wrote:Hi All,

I have had my ILR approved along with 2 dependents (wife&kid) on 22/06/11. My case was submitted on 21/06/11 through a specialist immigration firm. I have also extended my tier-1 10 days before i applied for ILR (ofcourse i had to spent awful lots of money on tier-1 extension & ILR for peace of mind). Well my history is as

1. WP (Entry clearance May2006)
2.Switched to Tier-1 (july 2008)
3. 184 days absences abroad (excluding departure/arrival dates)
4. Iam an indian national, my wife a pakistani and my son uk born holding indian passport...seems to be rare and odd combination lol. Love has no boundries...

Ladies & Gents for any questions i am happy to answer as i been following this forum every day/night since last 2 months and helped in preparing my documents and posing questions to my solicitor for clarification.

Congratulations on all that you have achieved (including the Tier 1 Extension and ILR)

Hi Rakhi - congratulations and I wonder why did you go for ILR for your kid rather applying for Citizenship...

rakhi117 wrote:Hi All,

I have had my ILR approved along with 2 dependents (wife&kid) on 22/06/11. My case was submitted on 21/06/11 through a specialist immigration firm. I have also extended my tier-1 10 days before i applied for ILR (ofcourse i had to spent awful lots of money on tier-1 extension & ILR for peace of mind). Well my history is as

1. WP (Entry clearance May2006)
2.Switched to Tier-1 (july 2008)
3. 184 days absences abroad (excluding departure/arrival dates)
4. Iam an indian national, my wife a pakistani and my son uk born holding indian passport...seems to be rare and odd combination lol. Love has no boundries...

Ladies & Gents for any questions i am happy to answer as i been following this forum every day/night since last 2 months and helped in preparing my documents and posing questions to my solicitor for clarification.

Congrats rakhi. Your 2nd Tier-1 extension was valid for how long? I mean did they give you 3 years visa or 2 years and the requirement was exactly same as your 1st tier-1 extension I suppose.

nionlight,

A bit of correction, It not 2nd but my first Tier-1 extension and was given 2 years leave to remain till july 2013. Anyhow my Tier-1 ext biometric cards have been retained with UKBA after approving ILR. The requirement was exactly the same which is to claim atleast 75 points as i did for my initial Tier-1 application.

gentlejuke wrote:Hi Rakhi - congratulations and I wonder why did you go for ILR for your kid rather applying for Citizenship...

Good question! Not really sure if the caseworker or senior officer would be thinking twice before refusing a family with a kid (unlike my family immigration status). The only issue i had was exceeded 180 by 4 days and read 1 or 2 cases refused on the basis of absences. So i really wanted to express to caseworker from my documents for a discretion that iam a family with UK born kid and had spent nearly 9 years (4 yrs i was a student) in uk lawfully and made UK main home.

Hi Rakhi,

Congrajulations!! Can you pls share the documents they have requested?

1. 12 Month Bank Stmts
2. 12 Month Payslips (salary band £45k above)
3. Last 2 years P60'S
4. Present & Previous employer letters & contracts(5 years)
5. Home office Approval letters (WP+Tier1)
6. Cohabitation Docs (Rental Agree, NHS, Driving lice, baby birth certi, bank stmts etc etc etc...)
7. Life in UK..
8. Old & New pasports

Iam not sure from the above, what main doc's have been submitted from my solicitor. Good solicitors do not submitt unnecessary doc's that may lead to more confusion.

Rakhi,

what is your personal feedback dealing with solicitor you've applied..?

Congrats on you ILR. I wish there's a million more Indo-Pak marriages.

How did you/solicitor explained the more than 180 days absences? were any of this business absences? did the caseworker asked any specific questions on this?

Gopaalan wrote:Congrats on you ILR. I wish there's a million more Indo-Pak marriages.

How did you/solicitor explained the more than 180 days absences? were any of this business absences? did the caseworker asked any specific questions on this?

Thanks on first part. We hope so..

I had supported with employer letter confirming the reason's of absences are due to paid holiday, business travel and few are unpaid leave. There were no calls/queries picked up by solicitor from caseworker/UKBA.

Rakhi,

If you have applied through solicitor, Did,nt he himself presented your case at CEO or he was not allowed????

nsm2010

I believe solicitors themselves dont go to PEO's they should be sending their assistants or courier people to PEO's. The person (does not know anything about case) taking the documents from solicitor will just drop the courier to case workers handling only the representatives cases. I guess there should be some separate section of case workers looking into cases submitted by any representatives.

Hi Rakhi,

Could you please reply to my PM.