BHC Islamabad vs. Islamabad OC

Best of luck to both of you.

Rgds,
hhsmp

Wooohoooooooo. Good news. Wife picked up her visa today.

Applied for EEA Family Permit - 27th Feb 09
Status when checked on 4th March - Forwarded to Islamabad OC (I think this changes on the day you apply or the day after)
Visa collected (Gerry's called my wife) - 20th Mar 09

So it took 21 days (3 weeks, 15 working days) as I suspected. hhsmp, we are getting good at this predicting business haha.

Thank you everyone for your support and I wish everyone the best of luck.

Congratulations amjad but Monday is 23rd March so a public holiday in Pakistan. I would say go on 24th March.

I'll keep an eye on this forum and help where I can and obviously I can learn loads from here too. Khuda Hafiz.

Congrats Kashif on ur wife's visa!

My wife applied for Tier 1 dependant visa on 20th Feb at the Lahore VAC. Ever since the status on the ukvacpk.com status check is 'forwarded to islamabad oc on'

Keeping our fingers crossed here... from what I see, islamabad VAC is relatively quicker as compared to lahore or karachi vac.

I haven't called gerry's or isl/abu dhabi bhc so far. do u think that'd be useful?

Regards
Hasan

@jafary

Brother, i have all the reasons to disagree with you.

As from Lahore VAC my dates are as under:

Applied: 04th March 2009.
Stamped: 12th March 2009.
Collected: 19th March 2009.

And a good news for you is that, i had the same status on the first day at ukvacpk.. as your wife has .

So as far as my experience is its a good sign .
Best of Luck mate.

Rgds,
-hhsmp

@KM

brother.,,, told you...

This is going to be a HIT.

Lets make out a plan and draft a plan for Immigration Solicitors .

ahah...

Best to luck to you both. c ya

Rgds,
-hhsmp

Hi KashifMuneer

Congrats!, can you please provide list of documents you sent with your application?

Hello All,

On the website it says the following message since 20th March :

Application date : 3/5/2009 1:14:43 PM
Status : Your application is ready for collection; please visit the UK Visa Application Centre where you submitted your visa application to collect the same

Rang Gerrys they have told us that application is still in process.??

Does anybody know the email address to enquire about the application? Km i think u have already emailed them?

@ amjadm

Dear dont bother grarry they told u same status even if u collected ur passport as u said ur status shown collect your application then u must go n collect ur passport

Best of Luck

@ballu

many thanks for your reply.

Ok will ask them to go down 2moro. But why the heck did gerry tell them it has not arrived!?! Also it costs about 1500 to 2000 rupees taxi fare to get to gerrys, it would be shame if they were asked to come back another day.

Would you have email for emabssy to enquire about status just to be certain.
I would appreciate if somebody has email address.

@ amjadm

Dear if you apply from LHR VAC then u must sent email on following id but u have to give details of your Name, Date of birth, Passport No

visa.abudhabi@fco.gov.uk

if u appliy from ISB VAC then you must sent email on following id

visqry2.islamabad@fco.gov.uk

@ballu

many thanks for email address.

Have just emailed them, hopefully get respone 2moro inshallah.

@ballu

Emailed : visqry2.islamabad@fco.gov.uk on Thursday 26th March, still had no response. Rang Gerrys they are saying that the application is still in process?? They have told my mother-in-law not to come to Islamabad. Very frustated, what else can i do? Any help greatly appreciated.

My status has been "Application forwarded to Islamabad OC" for past one week and it hasnt changed, does someone exactly know what Islamabad OC is?

visqry2.islamabad@fco.gov.uk I habe emailed them as well, but no reply

Hi Guys

Something to give you useful info.

I submitted my spouse visa application on 13.11.08

Application status changed to 'Application forwarded to Islamabad OC...' on 03.02.09

It changed to application is ready for collection on 31.03.09

So, overall it took about 90 working days which were very looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong ones.

Good Luck All

hhsmp wrote:Best of luck to both of you.

Rgds,
hhsmp

Hi Good people

I know some us us are struggling with finances and some can't even get a job until they get a decision with their passports from the HO. Therefore, it is EXPENSIVE calling those 0870/0845xxxxxxxxx numbers that the Home office generally provides.
Don't give up, now you can call Home Office for free, just check out www.saynoto0870.com and you will be provided with a local 0208/0151/0161xxxxxx number where you can contact HO for FREE! The actual number is 01516725626. (But log on to www.saynoto0870.com and confirm for yourself)
Especially if you have a pay monthly home or mobile telephone contract. You can still call from a pay as you go mobile but the charge rate will be like you are calling your neighbour next door on any 0208xxxxxxxx number.
Good luck Razz (Please share with others if it works for you!)

dear bad-boy was your visa for spouse settlement, and question for batley in a previous post you said the average waiting time is 3 month but alot of these people are getting response witin 2 months, also you said it depends where u apply, is it better to apply in karachi lahore or mirpur. Is islamabad slower then the rest.

@zeeshan

Brother, you must have landed there. Whats the first feel? Anyyyy positivity left out there?

Rgds,
-hhsmp

salaam guys

My wife made an application to come over to the UK at the Islamabad VAC on 30th April 2009 and the status on the online tracking system is "application forwarded to islamabad OC on" at the moment.

I had a call from the british high commision last week thursday 07/05/2009 calling my mobile and the lady was asking about weather or not i wanted her to join me in the uk (erm duhh, i did send the money and docs to her didnt i lol), and then she asked me a few other questions regarding my case, as in when we met, how we have kept in contact etc - documents for which have all been supplied - letters, calling cards, emails etc..

then i turned the tables and asked her the questions, whats the status, where from now etc ... she said my wife should get an email within 1 week telling her to collect her documents from gerrys .... then said do i have anything to worry about, she said no its all fine, no prblems etc etc etc ... then she said the visa was approved from their end, just paper work internally for gerrys that needs to be completed and this usually takes about 1 week.

should i take this as the visa is sorted? did anyone else get a call from them?

w/s > mashallah it seems its all good. very quick turn around in fact. brother can u please let me know the follwoing>>>> was her applicatin straight forwrd? was she ever in the uk previously? reason i ask the questions is only as my Wife has also subitted her application in Islamabad on the 14th April 2009 and we havnt heared a thing. we are very stressed and just hoping for good news. When you recieved the call what number showed up ? as i am not sure if i had a call.
please advise

thanks

SAJ

KazBirmingham wrote:salaam guys

My wife made an application to come over to the UK at the Islamabad VAC on 30th April 2009 and the status on the online tracking system is "application forwarded to islamabad OC on" at the moment.

I had a call from the british high commision last week thursday 07/05/2009 calling my mobile and the lady was asking about weather or not i wanted her to join me in the uk (erm duhh, i did send the money and docs to her didnt i lol), and then she asked me a few other questions regarding my case, as in when we met, how we have kept in contact etc - documents for which have all been supplied - letters, calling cards, emails etc..

then i turned the tables and asked her the questions, whats the status, where from now etc ... she said my wife should get an email within 1 week telling her to collect her documents from gerrys .... then said do i have anything to worry about, she said no its all fine, no prblems etc etc etc ... then she said the visa was approved from their end, just paper work internally for gerrys that needs to be completed and this usually takes about 1 week.

should i take this as the visa is sorted? did anyone else get a call from them?

[quote="SAJBHAM"]w/s > mashallah it seems its all good. very quick turn around in fact. brother can u please let me know the follwoing>>>> was her applicatin straight forwrd? was she ever in the uk previously? reason i ask the questions is only as my Wife has also subitted her application in Islamabad on the 14th April 2009 and we havnt heared a thing. we are very stressed and just hoping for good news. When you recieved the call what number showed up ? as i am not sure if i had a call.
please advise

thanks

SAJ

it was a private number that called (the high commision is in islamabad) the application is very straight forward - i sent surplus documents as in 1 years payslips, p60, 1 years bank statement, certified letter of sponsorship, certified declaration, savings details, certified letter of residence, environmental report, council tax bill ... the list goes on! i sent more stuff than what they requested!

My wife has never traveled out of pakistan before, never mind coming to the uk.

i dont think i am one to advise i mean, i am a cmplete newbie to this, i have just been totally honest with what i have said and supplied to the VAC.

I will keep you posted!

Although gerrys told my wife to come back after 3 months! the british high commision lady laughed this off, saying that this would not be the case and to keep an eye on the tracking thing!

OK, so as the woman promised, the status has changed today to what other people have noted too - Your application is ready for collection, please return to th VAC to collect the same ...

so looks like it was worth while speaking to them.

The high commision have a visa department and do take calls regarding applications, they are way easier to get through to.

I think there is a link to thier website on gerrys that has the contact numbers. or just google british high commision islamabad.

I hope this is of some use guys!

I will let you know when my wife goes to get her passport, and let you know what has been decided.

Saj, any news on your wife's case??

Has your wife received her passport, if 'yes' when did she receive it and did she receive a call from 'gerrys'? I also rcvd a call from the embassy today asking a few questions. When i asked the man how long it will take now he just said 'inshallah jaldi jawab aye ga!!!'
If anyone else is in the same situation, please share your experience.

nilli wrote:Has your wife received her passport, if 'yes' when did she receive it and did she receive a call from 'gerrys'? I also rcvd a call from the embassy today asking a few questions. When i asked the man how long it will take now he just said 'inshallah jaldi jawab aye ga!!!'
If anyone else is in the same situation, please share your experience.

yes my wife did get her visa, she went on wednesday and collected it!

so she applied on 30th april, got her visa sstamped on 14th may and collected the documents on 20th may. so it didnt take long at all.

she did get a call from gerrys to say please come and collect your documents.

she will be here on saturday! im getting a little nerved up!

ok, so my wife has been here since saturday and things are great!

just to say her visa issue date is 08/05/09, so it took 8 days!

kaz...ur really lucky the process was really fast, and successful. I hope my husbands application is just as fast and successful, hes applying in a couple of weeks.