Traffic Offenses - detail required

[ed_1980]

Hi again everyone,

Well - now that I have my HSMP Approval letter, I look into the details of the FLR(HSMP) app that I need to do.

Whilst it's all simpler, one element makes this irritating for me - Traffic Offenses.

I have had three minor traffic offenses - the last one in December 2004 where I lost 1 point off my license ( at the time a restricted one) and had my license suspended for three months. Before that, over the previous 4 years, I had two other minor offenses, both minor speeding infringements.

While I've read everything here about how immigration deals with this, I've not seen anything about how accepting they are of a bit of innaccuracy.

My leave to work here expires 9 April. I don't have the exact dates of my three traffic offences, even though I remember every other detail - number of points, monetary fines etc.

Does anybody have an idea how acceptable it would be to put:

speeding fine, 1 point $80 - mid 2001
speeding fine, 3 points $110 - early 2003
failure to stop at red light, 1 point $80 - December 2004

? I'm requesting a police record check with those details tomorrow - but it'll take up to 15 days just for them to process, let alone posting the damned thing to me. This is time I just don't really have. Serves me right for not reading the details of FLR well earlier though. :-/

Any advice?

Cheers,

Ed

[meggles]

personally i would wait until you have the specific information... can you remember the jurisdiction? on your licence it should say what the offence was (60 in a 50 etc.. albeit in code). do you have ANY paperwork that would show the reference number/and or jurisdiction.

even though i'm sure three traffic offenses won't derail your FLR, i wouldn't not put them on the form....

[ed_1980]

Thankfully I remembered I had a police check done on myself years ago for car insurance purposes. Luckily I left it in my file in Australia - so I've managed to get some friends to dig it up for me. Given I don't need to send in evidence of the offences, just the info, I can send it all off today.

[foobar]

After Initial approval in Jan, sent FLR(HSMP) form along with the required documents in Feb. Didn't mention the details of the Traffic Offence commited last year (38 in 30 speed limit).

Will this affect the decision of FLR-HSMP, can I provide the details in letter and send to across to the FLR-(HSMP) team through fax or royal mail.

Please suggest....

[ed_1980]

You'll be fine. Got my FLR(HSMP) today. No problem with the speeding tickets and my license suspension. As it says somewhere in some pdf document, the general advice to the caseworker is that they don't care unless it'd amount to a year jail sentence in the UK.