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[ashu12345]

1. Current visa: Spouse BRP Residence permit
2. Date of expiry of current leave: 02-06-2012
3. Application form used for ILR: SET (M)
4. Number of dependants applying at same time: 0
5. Date application posted: 28-05-2012
6. Date application received at UKBA: 29-05-2012
7. Date payment debited: 01-06-2012
8. Payment mode : DEBIT CARD
9. Acknowledgement letter received: 04-06-2012 (Letter dated 31-05-2012)
10. Biometric letter received: 02-08-2012 (Letter dated 25-07-2012)
11. Date of biometrics Enrollment: 03-08-2012
12. Date of approval: 24-09-2012
13. Date of return of passport and other documents: 26-09-2012
14. Date BRP ILR Received:26-09-2012

[mattd0rg]

dam, everyone seems to be getting there BRP card same day as passport, I've been waiting a week now so far for my BRP card
already missed one business trip because of this.

anyone else received their passport but still awaiting their BRP card

[Hua Ling]

Hi all.

Just joined the forum, still waiting for ILR

1. Current visa: Spouse BRP Residence permit
2. Date of expiry of current leave: 03-07-2012
3. Application form used for ILR: SET (M)
4. Number of dependants applying at same time: 0
5. Date application posted: 16-06-2012
6. Date application received at UKBA: 17-06-2012
7. Date payment debited: 22-06-2012
8. Payment mode : DEBIT CARD
9. Acknowledgement letter received: 23-06-2012
10. Biometric letter received: 13-08-2012 (Letter dated 11-08-2012)
11. Date of biometrics Enrollment: 15-08-2012
12. Date of approval: Waiting
13. Date of return of passport and other documents: Waiting
14. Date BRP ILR Received:Waiting

[ima2012]

[ashu12345]

Call them on 0870 606 7766 and then option Press 4 and then 2. hope u get urs soon

[scan_me84]

thanks for your reply. i didnt get it properly....
later is saying (number of people attending 1.) is this for me only or both of us me and my wife?
if is it for both of us then why is it not saying number of people attending 2 or mention bring your partner with you..?
anybody please can explain this or been through in a same situation?

after so much effort got the appointment and now worrying even more thinking about my partner how she gona go with me..

Thank you

[JeanR]

No, there is no consistency -- that is what is so maddening, and nerve-wracking. When my MP asked about the wide disparity for processing times, she was told it depended on the caseworker's caseload. That makes no sense: why would some caseworkers be given three times as many applications to process as someone else? Yet the waiting times posted here vary between 9 weeks and 26!

I think it really has to do with how efficient and diligent different caseworkers are -- and I'm afraid the ones who are slow and indifferent and lazy probably don't get penalized in any way, this being a government bureaucracy. An immigration lawyer I spoke to, who used to work for the UKBA himself, confirmed that, and said the place was a bureaucratic nightmare. He can't get any straight answers out of them either.

[19eggs]

[oakgreendub]

How do I add my timeline onto the spreadsheet? Posted in the previous page 209

[JeanR]

I have just received a response from the UKBA in response to my letter enquiring about processing times for SET (M) applications received in the first week of June.

The letter, which is dated the 25th of September, states that 509 SET(M) applications were received in the week of June 4th, and 44 of those have been decided. It then goes on to say that June applicants can expect to receive a decision within 53 calendar days. Those two statements blatantly contradict each other: 53 calendar days from the 4th of June brings us to the 27th of July. So clearly, if only 44 applications have been decided by the 25th of September, the decision times are much, much longer. How can the UKBA not recognize the ridiculousness of making those two statements in the same letter?

I am afraid that all those of us who applied in June are in for a very long wait. But as though that weren't bad enough, why do they tell us such obvious untruths about their processing times?

[sheford]

Hi Oakgreendub,
write me your timeline and i will update it all at one!

[snair]

Guys, I applied under Set(o) JR on 13th march.. & after 6 months of no news on 14th September they asked me for more paperwork (a few bank statements in original that I had an Internet printout off) . Sent it off last week on Friday 21st September and it got approved of 24th.

Today I received the passports & paperwork back (Royal Mail) and awaiting the BRP today as I wasn't at home when they (DX) tried to deliver yesterday.

I am told that the average waiting time is an avg of 22-27 weeks, it's hard and stressful whilst your waiting but more often than not it works out.

Cheers
SN

[mustang390]

[19eggs]

Congrats to all of you who received the pp and biometrics. Now you all can sigh a breathe of relief. For all of us waiting, it is killing us. Sometimes it makes me wonder if there is something wrong with the application. 15 weeks now.

[sheford]

UKBA Respose for week 11th June SETO Appication-27sept 2012

37 working days after Biometric enrollment is average time


Here you go....

[JeanR]

This is remarkable -- several people on this forum have mentioned that SET(O) applications seem to take longer than SET(M) ones, yet they have already processed almost 50% of the SET(O) applications from the week of the 11th of June, whereas, according to the letter I recieved from the UKBA today (see my previous post), they have handed down decisions on only about 8-9% of the SET(M) applications they received during the week of June 4th!!

[amara.naveed]

[ima2012]

[sahdi]

My husband received a letter from a senior case worker today, stating that he had agreed to expediate my husbands application. I'm not quite sure if this was because my mp wrote to ukba in August, or whether it was because I wrote a lengthy email on Monday stating my concerns over the lengthy wait...(29 weeks).

The letter stated, I have agreed to expediate your application at your request. Your application will be sent to a case team, where a caseworker will process your application. I cannot give you a timescale as to how long it will take o process, however you can hope to hear from us in the very near future.


So something worked, I wonder it was my email?


Let's hope we get good news soon

[Bash1oo]