**** COVID19 Biometrics appointments and UKVCAS ***** (Discuss here ONLY)

novalicary wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 03, 2020 12:42 pm

CULLINAN wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 02, 2020 8:37 pm

surabhi wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 02, 2020 8:35 pm

Thank you ..I will give a call tomorrow anyways..
But the thing which makes me to think that this is a generic email is, my minor applicants had ILR hardly 4 months back. So the existing biometric is just 4 months old.

Maybe but only for minors and not adults in the same group, makes me think otherwise.

Please let me know what they say by phone. As I wrote a week ago, I applied with my son (minor) and he received the 45 day message and I did not. We submitted via IDV app on 5 Sept. Applied July 12. I DM’d after the message and they looked up our application and said all was in order for both of us relating to biometrics and to ignore. We have saved the messages.

okigen68 wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:44 pm

Got my approval email this morning. Applied on 13/9 and submitted documents on 20/9, so roughly 6-7 weeks. Seems like it's the general timeline for quite a few people here. My case is pretty straightforward though - when I applied for ILR the decision came through the next morning.
Submission was done via IDV app only.
Good luck everyone

BetterHuman wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 05, 2020 2:45 pm

okigen68 wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:44 pm

Got my approval email this morning. Applied on 13/9 and submitted documents on 20/9, so roughly 6-7 weeks. Seems like it's the general timeline for quite a few people here. My case is pretty straightforward though - when I applied for ILR the decision came through the next morning.
Submission was done via IDV app only.
Good luck everyone

Many congrats Okigen68. Hope you get your Invite soon.

Did HO contact your referees? if so, did you get notified that they have emailed/contacted your referee ? I am conscious that my referee might not be checking their email or the spam box. I don't want to constantly ask them to check their inbox. i applied around the same time as yours and is a straightforward case.

HO did try to call me to remind me to check my mailbox for the decision letter,

okigen68 wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 05, 2020 3:50 pm

BetterHuman wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 05, 2020 2:45 pm

okigen68 wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:44 pm

Got my approval email this morning. Applied on 13/9 and submitted documents on 20/9, so roughly 6-7 weeks. Seems like it's the general timeline for quite a few people here. My case is pretty straightforward though - when I applied for ILR the decision came through the next morning.
Submission was done via IDV app only.
Good luck everyone

Many congrats Okigen68. Hope you get your Invite soon.

Did HO contact your referees? if so, did you get notified that they have emailed/contacted your referee ? I am conscious that my referee might not be checking their email or the spam box. I don't want to constantly ask them to check their inbox. i applied around the same time as yours and is a straightforward case.

No I don't think they ever contacted, otherwise my referees will have let me know.
HO did try to call me to remind me to check my mailbox for the decision letter, in case it went into spam. So I guess they may do the same for referees as well?

CULLINAN wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 05, 2020 3:52 pm

HO did try to call me to remind me to check my mailbox for the decision letter,

Thats new. Was it a private number?

Referees are very rarely contacted.

BetterHuman wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 05, 2020 3:59 pm

CULLINAN wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 05, 2020 3:52 pm

HO did try to call me to remind me to check my mailbox for the decision letter,

Thats new. Was it a private number?

Referees are very rarely contacted.

Thank you, CULLINAN.

Yes, phone call from HO is a new thing for me as well. I had missed few calls in the past week some from a completely new number, when you call back it doesn't go through, so not sure weather it is from HO or just some spam sales.

CULLINAN wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 05, 2020 4:00 pm

BetterHuman wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 05, 2020 3:59 pm

CULLINAN wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 05, 2020 3:52 pm

HO did try to call me to remind me to check my mailbox for the decision letter,

Thats new. Was it a private number?

Referees are very rarely contacted.

Thank you, CULLINAN.

Yes, phone call from HO is a new thing for me as well. I had missed few calls in the past week some from a completely new number, when you call back it doesn't go through, so not sure weather it is from HO or just some spam sales.

HO calls are normally from a private/no caller ID number.

CULLINAN wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 05, 2020 6:09 pm

Well HO is bound to contact via official way i.e. post. Usually they email these days but they can not solely rely contacting applicants via No caller IDs and leaving no voice message either. So if call is not answered (in case it was from them), pretty sure they will revert to other methods i.e. email/post.

ukvisat2 wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 05, 2020 9:28 pm

I was wondering if someone could confirm when is the earliest free UKVCAS appointment in Manchester. Thank you.

expat2019 wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:13 pm

I submitted my application and uploaded supporting documents.
I went to book biometrics and turned out that all in my area are already booked out.

The website says that they work at lower capacity.

How much time do I have to do biometrics?

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