The answer to your question is : how long is a piece of string?!

NO -ONE knows! Its the pathetic waiting game I'm afraid.

ooops!

Hi all, another dumb question but its worth a try. I submitted my application to HO in March for ILR under the 14 year rule. I had to supply a copy of my passport cos the original was lost. either never returned by HO or my solicitor who got closed down and lost all my file of papers also lost the ...

This is disheartening but you can only wait. I am on the boat as well and have been waiting for a month now. I called HO last week but a lady refused to tell me anything until 14 weeks later after my application received. Please inform me if you hear anything... I will do the same... BTW what ...

Thanks so much for the info everyone! Boy, that sucks! 14 years wait then another 5??? That is SOOO unfair! 20 years....people get less for MURDER and that is a FACT! yes a FACT!

well? anyone know if its a 5 year wait now???

Congrats-I know you are walking taller and oh so relieved!! What about citizenship? Can you apply after one year? Nop, I am afraid it isn't as simple as that. I've now have to wait for 5 more years of legal residence and only after that I can get the citizenship :-( But hey, I am not complaining ...

oh thank you IMMIGRATIONLAWYER...thanks somuch for making me feel better.

yes i enclosed all my payslips and p60's and everything! am really scared

good luck. let us know what happened... i know you did such a silly thing but i really feel for you.

hope to hear from you again.

hi, please help as an application for ILR under the 14 year rule has been sent via my solicitor but i have just heard as an overstayer i should not have been working. I have had a national insurance number since 1995 and took up work in 1998 but i was told that i had permission to work after 6 ...

Thanks a lot Christophe....it means a lot.

Will keep you all posted.

John wrote:No, I think it merely means that the application has been paid for! No more, no less.

oh ok. Thanks.

oh ok John..thanks for your quick reply.

i got a acknowledgement letter from HO today. they say that it has been passed to a caseworker and they will be in touch if they need more documents or anything. can i take this that the application is valid then?

Thanks.

Noush

I would request your SAR file - see if u've ever had a removal order you dint know about or otherwise had ur ILR clock reset/stopped. That's true. You have to check everything before applying... Noush, have you already submitted your application? Hi sakura, yes i have submitted the application ...

Hi was just wondering if it was a good sign that the HO have debited my card with the postal fee application. If the application was invalid surely they would not take the money right? their notes say that if the application is invalid they "will return your papers together with your fee". is that ...

How did you enter the UK? Airplane stub, ticket from anywhere? entered legally by pane ...have my passport stamp but thats it. I have tried to get proof from the college that i studied at that i was with them throughout 1994 but they wrote back to me saying they did not keep records that go that ...

any ideas or thoughts anyone........anyone??

Hi Your stamp is the main evidence of your arrival and time you spent in the UK. I am not even sure if they accept any other form of evidence except for your passport. Make sure you keep all your passports, even old and expired. All the best Its a shame they want to see your passport to grant your ...

Hi everyone I am seeking advise for a friend of mine as everyone on here was so helpful towards me and my husband during our immigration battle last year. The person in question is a malaysian national of chinese descent. He originally came to the uk approximatly 12 years ago on a six months ...

hi please can you tell me what is likely to happen if i am unable to provide documentary evidence for the first 6 months of my arrival to the UK legally. I came in march 94 and made my application for asylum at the HO in sept 94. I did not claim benefits or have a bank account and did not register ...

Hello everyone, Please can you tell me if its tru that the Home Office are basically looking for ways to say NO to people applying for residency / ILR under the 14 year rule. I read the below post from last year some time and am shocked...actually more sickened as I have just placed an application ...

John, Thanks so much for your replies....so appreciated. She was forced to marry her first couisin in her native pakistan in 1991. he left her there and didnt contact her again. she LEGALLY entered the Uk on a six month visa only to find him married to another woman. she was advised to apply for ...

she is a pakistani national...we'd be murdered there (as a same sex couple) plus she HAS NOT TRAVELLED FOR THIRTEEN YEARS as she has no valid passport of travel document.

Well the scam marriages used to happen before and it was not for that reason only....that is why it is down to the HO and others to determine whether or not the relationship is real, with the questions they ask and the history of the couple etc.