Still waiting for a decision.....

shakil.saif79 wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 20, 2018 7:17 pm

CR001 wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 20, 2018 1:45 pm

shakil.saif79 wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 20, 2018 1:42 pm

Dear members,

Has anyone come across interview process during spouse visa application. if yes, can you please list some important questions. who they contacted i.e. husband, wife, employer, landlord etc.

Has anyone been refused spouse visa (I don't wish but you know HO) and why? this will help others to submit their applications correctly.

regards,

Shakil

This topic is for those who have already applied and are still waiting and not for general 'what if' questions. Please continue questions in your existing topic you already have about still applying for a visa.

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Dear CR001,

I understand you guys are trying to keep forum organised. sometimes its not easy to get relevant information even after reading a complete thread or threads. That's why i ask questions where i feel relevant. It will be helpful if you guys copy link of related thread/info. I am not trying to make it messy.

Can anyone please paste link or interview questions and related information? I greatly appreciate your help.

Can you please continue in your existing thread!! Not all applicants are interviewed and any interview questions will be specific to your circumstances.

I am in same situation. Applied on 15th Nov 2017 (Non Priority) Settlement with child
Bio was taken on 20th Nov 2017
Not Straight Forward Email received on 6th Feb 2018
No inquiry called made to Sponsor. And no IHS payment is taken for Child yet. Not sure what is happening?? Can they refuse without taking Child IHS payment? it has been over 3 months now. May be HO is considering to refuse therefore not bother asking for child IHS.... Any advise?

Esi esi wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 20, 2018 5:03 pm

Hello
Thanks everybody for sharing your experience
In this forum
We apply for my wife visa from Istanbul,
On November 2017
85 days until now
Today I received a email from Sheffield visa Centre:


Thank you for applying for a UK visa. Your visa application has been
received and is under consideration. We aim to process non settlement
applications within 15 working days (unless you have opted for the Priority
Visa service), and settlement applications within 60 working days.

Unfortunately, the processing of your application has not been
straightforward and we will be unable to decide your application within our
customer service targets. We are continuing to work on your application and
aim to make a decision as soon as possible.

We will write to you again if there is any change to this. Please do not
attend the Visa Application Centre until you have been advised that your
application has been decided and that your passport is ready for collection.

Kind Regards,

UK Decision Making Centre



Anybody knows anything regards please can you help me..?

jamshaid wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 22, 2018 1:36 am

I am in same situation. Applied on 15th Nov 2017 (Non Priority) Settlement with child
Bio was taken on 20th Nov 2017
Not Straight Forward Email received on 6th Feb 2018
No inquiry called made to Sponsor. And no IHS payment is taken for Child yet. Not sure what is happening?? Can they refuse without taking Child IHS payment? it has been over 3 months now. May be HO is considering to refuse therefore not bother asking for child IHS.... Any advise?

Esi esi wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 20, 2018 5:03 pm

Hello
Thanks everybody for sharing your experience
In this forum
We apply for my wife visa from Istanbul,
On November 2017
85 days until now
Today I received a email from Sheffield visa Centre:


Thank you for applying for a UK visa. Your visa application has been
received and is under consideration. We aim to process non settlement
applications within 15 working days (unless you have opted for the Priority
Visa service), and settlement applications within 60 working days.

Unfortunately, the processing of your application has not been
straightforward and we will be unable to decide your application within our
customer service targets. We are continuing to work on your application and
aim to make a decision as soon as possible.

We will write to you again if there is any change to this. Please do not
attend the Visa Application Centre until you have been advised that your
application has been decided and that your passport is ready for collection.

Kind Regards,

UK Decision Making Centre



Anybody knows anything regards please can you help me..?

Did you call home office or contact to your MP?

@ Esi esi: It has been 65 working days out of 95 days in total for me from Bio metric date. It is Non Priority application and i am considering to give them more time and shall contact them through E-mail for status in first week of March. Usually it is useless activity to call their expensive phone line or E-mailing HO because the operator has standard answer for everyone " it is in process or decision is not made yet". We know that for God sake, "it is in process", thank for giving information we already knew.
No i did not contact them yet. But shall E-mail them to escalate it in first week of March and later contact MP as well if they do not make decision in March.
What is your timeline please?

jamshaid wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 22, 2018 9:34 pm

@ Esi esi: It has been 65 working days out of 95 days in total for me from Bio metric date. It is Non Priority application and i am considering to give them more time and shall contact them through E-mail for status in first week of March. Usually it is useless activity to call their expensive phone line or E-mailing HO because the operator has standard answer for everyone " it is in process or decision is not made yet". We know that for God sake, "it is in process", thank for giving information we already knew.
No i did not contact them yet. But shall E-mail them to escalate it in first week of March and later contact MP as well if they do not make decision in March.
What is your timeline please?

Jamshid
Our application is 90 days.
I received non a straightforward email.
I received the phone call interview regarding job
And income

@ Esi esi did you apply showing 2 jobs?

Londoner007 wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 26, 2018 1:44 pm

@ Esi esi did you apply showing 2 jobs?

No just one job

Ah ok. Mostly what I have seen they usually call regarding employment if there is more than 1 job shown. Obviously it all depends on individual case. Is it a well known workplace / company you work for? I think they are still doing background checks on you,

Hi Guys

I am new to this forum, and was wondering if anyone can shed some light on an Settlement application I submitted for my spouse, who is from Bangladesh.

Timeline is

online application submitted - 29th Nov 2018
Biometrics- 7th December 2017 at VFS Sylhet
acknowledgement email from UKVI on the 8th December 2017
Project timeline- 12 weeks
Supporting docs sent so Sheffield -15th December 2017
Support Docs received back from UKVI - 11 January 2018

12 weeks will be up on the 7th March 2018 , have heard anything from UKVI up until now, does anyone have any idea on how long it takes to hear back from them. I haven't received no emails say "APPLICATION NO STRAIGHTFORWARD , OR ON HOLD" etc. should I contact them and see what's going on or just wait ?

any help or advise will be much appreciated

many thanks

Khaled

Hi all. I am also new to these forums. Timeline for my wife and stepdaugher.

City/Country applying from: Bangkok, Thailand
Type of visa applied for: Spousal Settlement Visa, Wife and Stepdaughter
Priority/Non-Priority : non-priority
Date application submitted: 04 Oct 2017
Date bio-metrics taken: 12 Oct 2017
Date documents were scanned: 16th October 2017
Date documentation was received by UKVI: 16th October 2017

Email confirmation received: 27th October 2017

Projected timeline given: 12 weeks

Decision made email: N/A
Email from VFS stating visa has been processed: N/A

Date your visa was received: N/A
Processing time from Bio-metrics date: N/A

Received not straightforward email 04 Jan 2018
Received email requesting payment of stepdaughter's IHS on 05 Jan 2018
I called Sheffield on 26 Jan 2018 asking for an update.
Received an email on 02 Feb 2018 telling us that they are in the final stages and aim to make a decision as soon as possible.

Approaching 5 months since biometrics..

I wait after payment child IHS too:

City/Country applying from: Kiev, Ukraine
Type of visa applied for: Spousal Settlement Visa, Wife and Stepson
Priority/Non-Priority : non-priority
Date application submitted: 04 Nov 2017
Date bio-metrics taken: 17 Nov 2017
Date documentation was received by UKVI: 17 Nov 2017
Email confirmation received: : 20 Nov 2017
Projected timeline given: 12 weeks
Decision made email: N/A
Email from TLS stating visa has been processed: N/A
Date your visa was received: N/A
Processing time from Bio-metrics date: N/A

Received not straightforward email 09 Feb 2018
Received email requesting payment of stepson's IHS on 09 Feb 2018 (paid the same day)
Got an email 02 Mar 2018 after my inquiry - escalated case to the relevant department
74 days now and nothing yet.

Online Application : 15th November 2017
Application Type: Settlement Entry Clearance ( Wife and toddler)
Nature of Application: Non- priority
Bio Metric Date: 20th November 2017
Document sent: 24th November 2017
Document Returned: Second week of December 2017
Not Straightforward E-mail Received: 06th February 2018

HO did not ask me to pay Child IHS yet which seem bit unusual, what it could be mean? Today Marked 70 working days and i have no news at all and still waiting for decision. How can we escalate case through E-mail? Any advise? Thanks.

Jamshaid, contact the UKVI email address, ask for status of application and escalation.

@Khaled9

I have seen a few Bengali applications which were submitted in November approved recently.
Which address did you send your support docs to? PO BOX or Vulcan house, I ask because it took them 1 month to send your docs back.

You should email and ask for status update.

Hi Londoner007

Many thanks for your response.

I sent it to the P.O. Box address

Address is as follows
P.O. BOX 5852
Sheffield
S11 0FX

UKVI me a cover letter, with my supporting DOCS stating they have reciveved all documentation and scanned it, they advised no further action is required from my part , if they require further information they will get in contact, and they will contact the applicatant in due course with a decision.

I haven't had any emailes from UKVI for requests for futher docs or anything. My solicitor advised to wait the full 12 weeks as they may let me know one or two odays before the 12 week deadline, and to call them on or after the 12 week Mark for an update.

What would you sujest I do going forward?

Regards

Khaled

Email UKVI for a status update.

@Londoner007: Thank you for suggestion. I am thinking to contact UKVI E-mail for status but i also heard that they only reply back with standard message (e.g) application is in process, etc.. But i shall send E-mail on monday 5th March and ask for status and Escalation.
I wonder why HO did not ask me to pay child IHS yet it has been over 14 weeks now since application is made. Sometime i feel probably they want to refuse that's why not bothering asking me to Pay IHS?

Londoner007 wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 03, 2018 12:14 am

Jamshaid, contact the UKVI email address, ask for status of application and escalation.

Not necessarily, it can also mean the child was a born British so dint require to pay IHS. Only they know, so ask for update via email. Was your child born after you got naturalized?

@Londoner007

Thanks for the advise , il will give them a call and ask for a status update, will be in touch with outcome as soon as I recieve it.

Cheers

InshaAllah you will hear some good news very soon. Those from Sylhet who did biometrics in late November got approvals 3 weeks ago. Yours is early December so you'll hear very soon.

@ Londoner007

Thank you ,In sha Allah I pray its good news too.
To top it all off my spouce is pregnant just hope they give a verdict over there next few days, I have decided To wait untill March 7th, If I still get no response will call them and nag them. The contact center people are so useless they just give vauge and generic responses like robots , will give it a shot and see what they say.

Thanks for your kinds words.
Wsalaam

I will make dua for you. You can simply send them an email for an update, its the same people that answer the calls too, who aren't directly employed by UKVI.

Let us know if you hear anything, and hopefully next eid or 2 you'll have the full house :0).

@ Londoner007

Thank you for you duas because allah has heard it. My wife got a text today to collect passport. VISA WAS GRANTED !!!! Alhamdulillah.

Looks like I didn't have to call or email them, only just .

Timeline as follows
29th November 2017 online application
7 Dec 2017 Biometrics at vfs Slyhet, Bangaldesh.
15th Dec 2017- Supporting Docs sent to Sheffield
11 Jan 2018 - Suppoting Docs Returned
6 March 2018- wife gets a text to collect passport for visa application centre.
Total 89 days or 59 working days
Visa granted Alhamdulillah, all praise to allah. Thank you for all your support everyone!!

Wsalaam
Khaled

Remember us in your duas, and all the best for the future. Happy days for you :0)

Good evening everyone on this forum , I don't know if this is the right place to post but in all respect I am still waiting to receive news that my husband has finally received his passport back ,

Please does anyone know roughly how long it takes to receive a passport back with a visa stamped in after winning an appeal? It's been 5 weeks now and now news , there is no way of contacting them I'm getting really sad and impatient now (

My timeline so far:

- Submitted original spouse visa application in August 2016.

- Application refused in December 2016 ( Refusal reason was over TOIEC/ETS)

- Submitted appeal in January 2017

- Received a letter informing us that ECM review was unsuccessful in March 2017

- Received letter for hearing date in June 2017

- Hearing was in October 2017 , Alhamdulillah everything went postive and the judge cleared my husband's deception blame

- November 2017 we received our official notice we won our appeal

- A few days later Home Office challenged the decision to take us to Upper Tribunal , by asking permission from the first tier tribunal judge

- December 2017 we received a notice saying home office was unsuccessful with their attempt to take matters further

- In the same week we received yet another notice informing us that home office were seeking direct permission from upper tribunal to go further

- January 2018 we received another notice saying home office were unsuccessful, however they still had 14 days to Lodge a judicial review

- Then on February 4th 2018 we finally received an email stating that my husband should submit his passport to his nearest vac in Islambad

- February 6th he submitted his passport , now we are waiting for them to return the passport with visa it's been 5 weeks tomorrow , please can anyone share their experience how long they take to stamp a visa ?

I last saw my husband in April 2016 it's been almost 2 years now , I pray that no one goes through what I went through , if u can visit ur spouse I suggest u go back and visit , I hope everyone else's journey are easy and not as stressful as mine