ILR-Unmarried Partner decison times/employment

[bacchanal]

Hi I'm about to apply for ILR after the two year initial period for unmarried partners. (I'm non-EU partner is British) My employment contract ends the date my LLTR runs out. They are willing to put me on a rolling contract until the decision. I telelphoned the IND helpline and they said that they did not write specific letters regarding the fact that your status remains as current until the decision. My employers would like some documentary proof of this the best i could do was given them the employment help line number. As such does anyone...

Have a general idea of the current decision times for ILR application eg. someone who applied in december?

And does anyone know if the acknowledgement letter they send state that your current staus remains until they make a decision.

[vinny]

1. INTRODUCTION

It is often not possible to decide an application for an extension of leave until after the period of leave has expired. To prevent applicants from becoming overstayers through no fault of their own, section 118 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 introduced an amended section 3C into the Immigration Act 1971. Section 3C automatically extends the leave of a person who has made an application for further leave to remain during a period of extant leave. Technically, the leave is "treated as continuing".

To benefit, a person must have existing leave to enter or remain at the time when their valid application is made. Section 3C then prevents such an applicant becoming an overstayer during the period in which their application for a variation of leave remains undecided and, thereafter, while an appeal against any refusal could be brought or is pending.

To prevent people becoming overstayers while exercising a right of appeal against a decision to curtail or to revoke leave to enter or remain, section 11 of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 added a section 3D to the Immigration Act 1971. When leave to enter or remain is curtailed or revoked, section 3D extends it while an appeal could be brought or is pending....