ILR postal applications (excluding 10/14 yr.)

[PG71]

Hi All,

Just to share my timeline with you:

2 yrs HSMP + 3 Tier 1
SET (O)

Application form submitted : 5th Nov 12
Confirmed delievery : 6th Nov 12
Payment deducted : 7th Nov 12
Biometrics done : 3rd Jan 13
Approval letter : 5th Jul 13 (letter dated : 1st Jul 13)
Biometric ID card : waiting

[desi0006]

Hi All,

Just to share my timeline with you:

2 yrs HSMP + 3 Tier 1
SET (O)

Application form submitted : 5th Nov 12
Confirmed delievery : 6th Nov 12
Payment deducted : 7th Nov 12
Biometrics done : 3rd Jan 13
Approval letter : 5th Jul 13 (letter dated : 1st Jul 13)
Biometric ID card : waiting

Mine was dated 22nd November. I would wait until this month end before calling them.

I think its quite simple to know the service standard of UKBA if we use Right to Information act and ask how many Set (O) postal applications they have received between 1st October 12 and 31st January 2013, how many have been decided and how many are pending.

[ccc]

Hi All,

Just to share my timeline with you:

2 yrs HSMP + 3 Tier 1
SET (O)

Application form submitted : 5th Nov 12
Confirmed delievery : 6th Nov 12
Payment deducted : 7th Nov 12
Biometrics done : 3rd Jan 13
Approval letter : 5th Jul 13 (letter dated : 1st Jul 13)
Biometric ID card : waiting

same submission date
but i did my biometric on 14th jan

[ilr-tracker]

Hey Congrats ,
On the ILR letter what date it state that your ILR is effective from. I read somewhere that it the date from which your 1 yr countdown to Citizenship starts.

Hi All,

Just to share my timeline with you:

2 yrs HSMP + 3 Tier 1
SET (O)

Application form submitted : 5th Nov 12
Confirmed delievery : 6th Nov 12
Payment deducted : 7th Nov 12
Biometrics done : 3rd Jan 13
Approval letter : 5th Jul 13 (letter dated : 1st Jul 13)
Biometric ID card : waiting

[JILRN2012]

Just called up UKBA, its real testing the patience in life.
They will just read whatever its on screen,"application still processing" that's it. I asked about there should be some deadline can not just keep people hanging around for 8-9 months answer was sometime it will take time to process ILR applications.

Last week as per this forum UKBA made little progress but seems to be again they are back to same pace..

Hey Congrats ,
On the ILR letter what date it state that your ILR is effective from. I read somewhere that it the date from which your 1 yr countdown to Citizenship starts.

Hi All,

Just to share my timeline with you:

2 yrs HSMP + 3 Tier 1
SET (O)

Application form submitted : 5th Nov 12
Confirmed delievery : 6th Nov 12
Payment deducted : 7th Nov 12
Biometrics done : 3rd Jan 13
Approval letter : 5th Jul 13 (letter dated : 1st Jul 13)
Biometric ID card : waiting

[special31]

POSTAL APPLICATION 05/04/2013
FEE DEDUCTION AND LETTER - 12/04/2013
BIOMETRIC DATE :- 08/05/2013
BRP RECEIVE - 11/07/2013

[go2khurram]

POSTAL APPLICATION 05/04/2013
FEE DEDUCTION AND LETTER - 12/04/2013
BIOMETRIC DATE :- 08/05/2013
BRP RECEIVE - 11/07/2013

Congratulations special31

Can you plesae also mentioned on which category you applied ( Set(M), Set(0) - WP or Set (0) - Tier 1)?

[JILRN2012]

Congratulations special31.
Can you please let us know category applied and location whether it's Croydon or Sheffield ?

Thanks

POSTAL APPLICATION 05/04/2013
FEE DEDUCTION AND LETTER - 12/04/2013
BIOMETRIC DATE :- 08/05/2013
BRP RECEIVE - 11/07/2013

Congratulations special31

Can you plesae also mentioned on which category you applied ( Set(M), Set(0) - WP or Set (0) - Tier 1)?

[special31]

ITs SET O on TIER 1, Dont know the location but got Documents back from Liverpool.

Just added the post to keep moral up for all those who has recently applied and frustrated looking at all the messages from people who hasn't got the response for long time...

Congratulations special31.
Can you please let us know category applied and location whether it's Croydon or Sheffield ?

Thanks

POSTAL APPLICATION 05/04/2013
FEE DEDUCTION AND LETTER - 12/04/2013
BIOMETRIC DATE :- 08/05/2013
BRP RECEIVE - 11/07/2013

Congratulations special31

Can you plesae also mentioned on which category you applied ( Set(M), Set(0) - WP or Set (0) - Tier 1)?

[go2khurram]

ITs SET O on TIER 1, Dont know the location but got Documents back from Liverpool.

Just added the post to keep moral up for all those who has recently applied and frustrated looking at all the messages from people who hasn't got the response for long time...

Congratulations special31.
Can you please let us know category applied and location whether it's Croydon or Sheffield ?

Thanks

POSTAL APPLICATION 05/04/2013
FEE DEDUCTION AND LETTER - 12/04/2013
BIOMETRIC DATE :- 08/05/2013
BRP RECEIVE - 11/07/2013

Congratulations special31

Can you please also mentioned on which category you applied ( Set(M), Set(0) - WP or Set (0) - Tier 1)?

Thanks for update....
This is really surprising ... we have not seen update even from the people who applied in Dec, Jan, Fab and even in March under Tier(1) - 5 year route category..... I think you are the lucky one who got this bumper prize .. ...BTW i have similar timeline like yours as I applied on 4th April under the same category but still have no news ....

[xyang]

Visa type: SET(M)
POSTAL APPLICATION 12/06/2013
FEE DEDUCTION AND LETTER - 14/06/2013
BIOMETRIC DATE : 29/06/2013
Approval letter and documents returned: 11/07/2013
BRP RECEIVE - 12/07/2013

All my original documents are returned to me apart from my OLD BRP card. Is this normal? Or did UKBA forget to return my OLD BRP card? Please does anyone know?

Thanks.

[Simi UK]

Type of visa: PBS Dependent ( valid till jan'14 )
Applied for: ILR using SET (O)
Date application send: 14 June'13
Application received: 18 June'13
Money taken: 20 June'13
Biometric letter received l: 3 July'13 ( dated 30 June'13 )
Biometric done: 6 July'13
Waiting.....

[go2khurram]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23295435

[ukdreamer]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23295435

It is really frustrating now..!!! i completed six months...i don't know when my application processed.!!!!

Can't change job and go out side country!!!! Hell is in England!

[A Moomin]

Application: ILR SET(O) UK Ancestry
Acknowledgement Letter: 14/05/2013
Biometrics Enrollment Letter: 23/05/2013
Biometrics Enrolled: 01/06/2013
Approval Received: waiting
Return of passport & docs: waiting
BRP ILR Received: waiting

[onabanjo]

POSTAL APPLICATION 05/04/2013
FEE DEDUCTION AND LETTER - 12/04/2013
BIOMETRIC DATE :- 08/05/2013
BRP RECEIVE - 11/07/2013

Congratulations mate.This is a special one and fastest so far in recent time

[Maddy22]

SET (O)

Applied: 19th feb 2013
Responded and fees taken: 21st feb 2013
Biometric letter received: 26th feb 2013
Biometrics taken: 3rd march 2013

It is now mid July 2013 and I'm still waiting x

[kittylitter030507]

Hi
All the best to all that got their ILR.
Looks like UKBA are really processing oct/nov applications.
I have been waiting 7.1/2 months now, should be on my holiday 12 of july but thats all wasted now lost all hope.

We applied end of October 2012 and nothing yet! We are waiting 8 1/2 months now for a straightforward SET (M) application. I am British and my husband is Egyptian (we were married 4 years while living in Italy where he had ILR and lived and worked for 20 years before coming back to the UK!!!). The case could not be more straightforward but still nada!

[Maddy22]

Applied for ILR SET(O) - WorkPermit basis
Document send 6th July
Document recieved by HO 7th July
Ack letter recieved 08 July
Payment gone through 08 July
Royal Mail Attempted delivery of a package. 23 September
ILR Recieved...

Did you have any help with this or did you pst it off yourself? X

[bl2013]

Hi Spring, BRP
Thank you for your time and writing all this for me i really appreciate for all help and keeping me human.

I already lost my holiday/flights and not being able to see my wife, i am gonna wait till end of july and see if i get anything from ~~UKBA.

I am really surprised to see people that applied after jan 2013 and already got their ILR, so how the UKBA picks the applications and in what order only god knows.

I also lost all interest in calling them every time its the same standard response.

All the best.

Hi
All the best to all that got their ILR.
Looks like UKBA are really processing oct/nov applications.
I have been waiting 7.1/2 months now, should be on my holiday 12 of july but thats all wasted now lost all hope.

Hi bl2913,

Don't give up, there is always hope!

Have you tried expediting your application by faxing/emailing/calling the HO with your humble but urgent request and flight tickets/details as evidence?

All the best.

Hi spring
Thanks for your reply, this forum and people are great i always get some hope after reading posts.
Its to late now should be flying on fri , thats the life sometime you win and sometime lose.
Have not tried anything to speed up the processing as i believe only someone really ill or death in close family and then you can speed it up.
Seen so many people on here that tried and many not even got a reply from them.

Hi bl2913

I already had ILR last year but use to visit this forum sometimes. My application was with UKBA for 5 months in June 12. (applied Jan 12). I had better job offer and my interview was successful. My new employer had a only concern about my original documents. Even I was aware about Employee checking services (by employer), I wrote a letter to my MP (online on MP website) saying, my employer don't want to go via that route and I loose the better job opportunity only because UKBA took 5 months. I also wrote that if I don't get this job (with higher salary than current one) HMRC also loose higher tax. (this is not the reason specified by UKBA i.e. someone ill in your family, etc)

Very Next day after writing letter to my MP, I received a CC copy from my MP letter addressing UKBA. aprrox 19 June and my decisions made by UKBA on 22 June and received documents i think on 24 or 25 June.

So don't give up, I think try all these things altogether.
1. Fax a letter saying it is more that 7 months with your ticket, etc
2. Call them once or twice
3. Write a letter to you MP (attached your ticket, etc)

Do it today and who knows, you might get that in time.

Regards & Best Luck

[desi0006]

Ok, My patience gave up today and I called them to ask anyway.

As usual and expected : I am told to wait. I asked: Its more than 6 months and its not done yet, but there must be some maximum limit to waiting period ? Well the answer was "we understand its more than 6 months but you must wait".

Is there an email or fax address?
Does anyone have a template or covering letter format regarding contacting local MP?

Cheers

[Scooter1]

I called the BA on Friday as my six months was over last week. The woman I spoke to, after I said the " 99% in six months" was a fallacy, basically told me they were just now beginning to work on November and December applications, all the time still insisting that they were still achieving 99%. Wrote my MP about it. Will see what he says.

[Saikripa]

Hi All,

Its a long wait for everyone, I found below article and found that there is a quite big backlog with UKBA since mid 2012. And with recent changes in UKBA department where UKBA is split into two might have increased this backlog more. Request you to look into settlement visa processing percentile within excel document, might be of interest to many.

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitec ... migration/

I am too waiting for my documents and BRP, its worth waiting and have patience. It seems its taking 7-8 months on an average.

SET (O), Tier 1, applied along with 2 dependents

Applied: 07th feb 2013
Acknowledged : 12th Feb 2013
Responded and fees taken: 12th feb 2013
Biometric letter received: 3rd march 2013
Biometrics taken: 3rd march 2013

Two keys are essential here : Have full faith on your Mighty Lord and patience.

Jai Sai

[SET0]

http://news.sky.com/story/1115200/uk-im ... years-long

Not to scare ya, but 500,000 backlog!!!! that is crazy

I have been waiting mine for nearly 7 months now..

[Zhanna Franchishkovski]

I have been waiting 9 month since 16 October 2012 postal application SET(M)