Still waiting for a decision.....

leopard2010 · Post by **leopard2010** » Sat Jul 13, 2019 2:35 pm

any update asifazohaib??????

FatimaHussainSami · Post by **FatimaHussainSami** » Sat Jul 13, 2019 3:07 pm

FatimaHussainSami wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 09, 2019 11:03 am

FatimaHussainSami wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 21, 2019 11:07 am

FatimaHussainSami wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 21, 2019 7:26 am

UPDATE:

13th June 2019: Solicitor receives all my original documents in his office

18th June 2019: solicitor receives email from home office saying our case is in the uk decision making center and is being prepared for consideration by an entry clearance officer.
However this email also stated the following: PLEASE NOTE: This email is to acknowledge receipt of your Settlement application, if you or your UK sponsor have not already submitted your supporting documentation please ensure you follow the process listed below: UKVI is unable to consider your application without these documents.

Your sponsor or an agent can submit supporting documents in the UK at various locations in person for a fee of £75 per application, payable in cash or with a debit card. For these locations please refer to:

https://www.vfsglobal.co.uk/pk/en/news/ ... ement-visa

I met with my solicitor and decided to go to VFS office in london and pay the £75 fee to have all documents rescanned and entered directly into the home office system. This gave us a peace of mind that they now have all our documents as we received the email regarding our case 4.5 weeks after submitting bio metrics and when the solicitor was contacted (3rd june 2019 week) the home office mentioned if we had or had not submitted our scanned documents in Pakistan so we was worried as to if they may or may not have received them.

20th june 2019: visited VFS global in london to rescan and upload supporting documents into home office system at a cost of £75.

Now just praying our case is looked into properly and visa is granted by 28th june 2019 as we paid for priority. InshaAllah!!
UPDATE...!

After scanning documents at VFS in london, we had no contact made by home office regarding our case... in the email they sent on the 18th of june, it stated if our case is delayed or not straightforward we will get an email which after waiting we haven't so my lawyer emailed home office as we paid priority and our 30 working day waiting time is over.

2nd july 2019: email home office regarding our case and concerned we havent got any contact from home office regarding our case also. Lawyer said it takes 72 hours for reply so have to wait

5th july 2019(friday): have had no reply to our email sent to home office so we attempt to call them instead. Phoned twice, both times put in a queue for 20+ mins so we hang up as they are busy (we assume its a friday hence why) and we are wasting alot of money!

8th july 2019(monday): phoned home office as we still havent had a reply to email, we give them passport n.o. GWF n.o. husband name ect all details then they say our case is still with case worker and we will forward your email and enquiry to the case worker and tell him to look at your case first now, as we informed them ours is priority then why is it still being delayed.

Now just waiting, lawyer said we should receive an email 2-3 days after phoning them informing us what is happening with our case, so Thursday or Friday or if not, maybe my husband should recieve text or call from VFS office to collect passport as they may hurry now with delivering our passport of VFS.

Now we are just waiting to see what happens...
UPDATE:
12th july 2019 (friday):
Solicitor phoned home office again as we haven't had no email from home office regarding our case or any update as to what they are doing as its now been 2 weeks over our time limit.

On the phone we are informed home office didnt recieve scanned supporting documents from pakistan mirpur VFS office to which we are surprised as since 17th of may we have been in the assumption that home office have received all our documents. We are also informed home office received our supporting documents on 20th of june when i had visited VFS in london just to be on the safe side and now i am glad we did pay an extra £75 to scam documents and send them to home office otherwise maybe my husbands visa could of been refused again.

Since home office received documents on 20th june they said our case is still priority and will take 6 weeks from the 20th of june and we should wait till 1st of august for an reply. My solicitor did tell them to hurry a bit as we waited so long already and the case worker said our case is straightforward but necessary paper checks need to be made so wait patiently now as home office received supporting documents late

Alir86 · Post by **Alir86** » Tue Jul 16, 2019 4:34 pm

Alir86 wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 05, 2019 9:38 pm

Alir86 wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 21, 2019 6:36 pm

billalahmed wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 20, 2019 7:28 pm
I dont think it has been 97 working days if you have applied in March. Would be 97 days in total and remember since March there have been 4 bank holidays.

Karmy100 wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 20, 2019 6:52 pm

Hi dose anyone heard back who applied in April I have email HO

Hi I don't know what you are waiting for, if it's been 97 days. Call them or email them. Chase it up. If you don't chase, they will just keep you waiting...

I know was bank holidays and in March was Easter holidays as well I am not sure now how many days but I have submitted my husbands application on the 7th of March and his biometric was on the 15th of March it was non priority application and I have applied trough the lawyer I have phone my lawyer to he is saying wait until end of this month I didn’t receive any call from HO neither my employer god knows m so scared wats going on with our application my heart beat fast when I think about to contacting them honestly it’s so stressful this period of time .

I have phone HO and they ask me my husband passport Num and his GWF and IHS Num date of birth and date when we applied which was 7th of March and his biometric was on 12th n they says it’s been over 12weeks now with in 15 working days they will let me know if the application is Daley or refused I am so stressed is anyone els contacted HO and got same response and what will happen after 15 days I am worried ??

Hi dose anyone heard back who applied in April mine been 4 months 6days and I have email HO they reply me my application behind considered now it’s awaiting a decision but don’t know how long m so worried god knows how long more they r going to take please advise me what els I can do

Jhelumi · Post by **Jhelumi** » Wed Jul 17, 2019 10:34 am

FatimaHussainSami wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 10, 2019 9:16 am

rexabruzzi wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 09, 2019 1:01 pm
Dear Jhelumi

Thank you so much for your response.

Yea I think it’s best to wait another couple of weeks and then may be contact the local MP.

Thank you very much once again
Hiya, i just wanted to say that, i asked my solicitor about contacting local MP if we get no reply from the home office regarding our phone call enquiry and my solicitor adviced me not to approach my local MP unless you have been waiting for 6 months plus for a reply. I asked why and he said because MPs cant do much besides just asking them on your behalf until 6 months haven't gone by so its no point really. Until 6 months are over we should contact home office ourselves. I thought i'll inform you of what my solicitor informed me.

Hello,

Home Office do not speak with mere humans being like me, you, or the solicitors. They only respond to Government officials such locals MPs.

When you received your acknowledgement e-mail, it would've mentioned that the Home Office requires 12 weeks to process your application. Within those 12-weeks they need to respond, if they don't then you may wish to utiliise the services of a local MP. No harm in approaching an MP and there's no harm in waiting for 6 months.

It could be that the Home Office have tried contacting you, your work, your solicitor but they were unsuccessful because the contact details were in corect.

sabs2019 · Post by **sabs2019** » Thu Jul 18, 2019 10:13 am

If the 12 weeks have passed, it is worth contacting your local MP. I did and she was on it straight away, bear in mind that it takes the HO to respond to local MP within 20 working days and they need to give a justifiable response as to what are the reasons of delay are. If you contact HO yourselves, guaranteed you'll get the same generated response. I am waiting for the HO response to my MP. I will keep you informed. Also on the Indian time lines they have been given the response of delays are due to ICC cricket in UK, visit visas causing backlog of settlement visas as I doubt they hired new people for that workload.

rexabruzzi · Post by **rexabruzzi** » Fri Jul 19, 2019 7:44 am

Sabs2019

Thanks for your msg. Yes I was thinking about the World Cup too. Surely would have been an unexpected load of applications that would have come through.

I have written to HO and let’s see what they say.

Like you said, might get back with the genetic response and in that case yes I’ve thought of going through the local MP.

Thanks again

Rex

ZiZo · Post by **ZiZo** » Fri Jul 26, 2019 9:20 pm

Where can I read the rest of this thread please?

@FatimaHussainSami what happened in the end? Is there any update to your husbands visa?

It’s hard to find priority spouse visa timelines here, so was following yours.

Best of luck x

Ukhtii · Post by **Ukhtii** » Sat Jul 27, 2019 8:56 am

116 WORKING DAYS!

redcarpert · Post by **redcarpert** » Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:59 pm

I've applied in April and still didn't get a decision yet, it's really stressing

FatimaHussainSami · Post by **FatimaHussainSami** » Mon Jul 29, 2019 1:23 pm

ZiZo wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 26, 2019 9:20 pm
Where can I read the rest of this thread please?

@FatimaHussainSami what happened in the end? Is there any update to your husbands visa?

It’s hard to find priority spouse visa timelines here, so was following yours.

Best of luck x

Hey Zizo,

Thank you for your wishes...
Well my husbands "priority" spouse visa is still on going. We was informed by the home office to wait till the 1st of august and we should get a reply by then. So we're just waiting for the 1st to come quickly now.

Do tell me what you have read upto and i could give you a brief catch up if what i have mentioned now doesn't make sense to you!

Anyways, have you also applied for your spouse visa, is it priority also as i can't seem to find any priority spouse visas applied near the same time as me. I found 1 person but they haven't given an update on here.

Wish you the best with your spouse visa and everyone else on here waiting for theirs also.

ZiZo · Post by **ZiZo** » Mon Jul 29, 2019 10:20 pm

Yhh @FatimaHussainSami I’ve been following your thread, so your message makes sense alright

My husband has applied for his visa too, he did priority. This is our 4th week, so we are praying to hear something back very soon.

Yours was the only one after ALOT of reading that was at a similar time to mine. Do you know what I can type or Where I can read more priority timelines?

Hope we all hear something soon! Just keep praying

redcarpert · Post by **redcarpert** » Tue Jul 30, 2019 9:01 am

I've applied for a spouse visa for my wife, here's my timeline:

Country applying from: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Type of visa applied for: Spouse, Settlement
Visa Priority or Non Priority: Non-Priority as priority service isn't available
Date Application Submitted Online: 2 April 2019
Date Bio-metrics Taken: 18 April 2019
Documents scanned to UKVI: 18 April 2019
Text from VFS stating documents has been sent to UKVI: 19 April 2019
Email from Sheffield stating "Your Application is currently being prepared for consideration by an Entry Clearance Officer: 6 June 2019
Email from UK decision making centre stating: Unfortunately, the processing of your application has not been straightforward and we will be unable to decide your application within our customer service targets: 12 July 2019 (sent on the 60th working day)
Phoned Local MP: 15 July 2019
Decision Made Email: TBC
Passport Returned: TBC
Visa Approved (date on letter): TBC

75 working days since biometrics and still no decision

I’ve sent them a paid email on 17 July 2019 asking for an update on why it’s not straightforward, I got a reply on 24 July 2019 “ your application has been escalated to the relevant team and there should be a reply within 15 working days?
Then on 30 July 2019 got another email stating “The processing of this application has not been straightforward. We continuing to work on the application and will make a decision as soon as we able to. We cannot give a timescale for when a decision will be made.
(This is the 2nd not straightforward email within couple of weeks from the first not straightforward email) I feel like this email is for them to buy themselves more time to decide on the application
what i don't understand is what’s so not straightforward about my case, the solicitor checked it before it was submitted and she said it looks like a straightforward case all the requirements are there, but I just don't understand what’s going on. I'm scared after all those days waiting, pain and stress it gets refused for a stupid reason.

Can someone tell me if they received this type of email before? If they did how long did it take UKVI to process your visa after that? And wither it was granted or refused? If refused what was the reason??

KristianDLloyd · Post by **KristianDLloyd** » Tue Jul 30, 2019 9:04 pm

Thought I would share my progress...

Type of visa applied for: Proposed Civil Partner (Fiance), Settlement
Priority/Non-Priority: Priority
Application centre: Shanghai, China
Online Application Submitted: 23/6/19
Bio-metrics taken: 25/6/19
Documents submitted at VFS, London: 24/6/19
Email stating "Your Application is currently being prepared for consideration by an Entry Clearance Officer": 5/7/19 (10 WD)
Employer contacted by UKVI: No
Sponsor contacted by UKVI: No
Case not straightforward email: No
Decision made email from UKVI: No
VFS Text for passport collection: No
Passport Collected: No
Current Status: (Updated 25/7/19) Being considered, awaiting decision.

sabs2019 · Post by **sabs2019** » Wed Jul 31, 2019 2:28 pm

leopard2010 wrote: ↑
Sat Jul 13, 2019 2:35 pm
any update asifazohaib??????

any update leopard2010,
our time lines are similar
biometric 25/3/19
still no decision made

RIRILEX · Post by **RIRILEX** » Wed Jul 31, 2019 3:28 pm

First Post!

We've been reading others experiences over the last few months and me and my partner are going through the same dreaded visa process and we wanted to share our progress too. We are applying from Trinidad & Tobago. Will update with any developments.

Type of visa applied for:Fiance, Settlement
Priority/Non-Priority: Non-Priority
Application centre: Trinidad & Tobago (Port of Spain)
Online Application Submitted: 24/05/19
Bio-metrics taken: 12/06/19
Documents submitted at VFS, London: 07/6/19
Email stating "Your Application is currently being prepared for consideration by an Entry Clearance Officer": 29/06/19
Employer contacted by UKVI: No
Sponsor contacted by UKVI: No
Case not straightforward email: No
Decision made email from UKVI: No
VFS Text for passport collection: No
Passport Collected: No
Current Status: Being considered, awaiting decision. (As of 31/07/19)

KristianDLloyd · Post by **KristianDLloyd** » Wed Jul 31, 2019 7:00 pm

KristianDLloyd wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 30, 2019 9:04 pm
Thought I would share my progress...

Type of visa applied for: Proposed Civil Partner (Fiance), Settlement
Priority/Non-Priority: Priority
Application centre: Shanghai, China
Online Application Submitted: 23/6/19
Bio-metrics taken: 25/6/19
Documents submitted at VFS, London: 24/6/19
Email stating "Your Application is currently being prepared for consideration by an Entry Clearance Officer": 5/7/19 (10 WD)
Employer contacted by UKVI: No
Sponsor contacted by UKVI: No
Case not straightforward email: No
Decision made email from UKVI: No
VFS Text for passport collection: No
Passport Collected: No
Current Status: (Updated 25/7/19) Being considered, awaiting decision.

UPDATE:

Type of visa applied for: Proposed Civil Partner (Fiance), Settlement
Priority/Non-Priority: Priority
Application centre: Shanghai, China
Online Application Submitted: 23/6/19
Bio-metrics taken: 25/6/19
Documents submitted at VFS, London: 24/6/19
Email stating "Your Application is currently being prepared for consideration by an Entry Clearance Officer": 5/7/19 (10 WD)
Employer contacted by UKVI: No
Sponsor contacted by UKVI: No
Case not straightforward email: No
Decision made email from UKVI: No
VFS Text for passport collection: No
Passport Collected: No
Current Status: (31/7/19) Decision Made, 27WD after submission.

mrsc · Post by **mrsc** » Wed Jul 31, 2019 8:31 pm

Chapterixx wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 21, 2019 5:36 pm
Hi,

Just adding our status to the list.

Online application made on 16th May 2019
Biometric attended by spouse on 20th May
Supporting documents submitted on 21st May
Case Handler acknowledgement on 19th June

'Please note that UKVI aims to complete all Settlement Visa applications within 12 weeks of the submission date' - Not sure if our 12 weeks started on the 19th of June, or in May when we completed our online application/submitted our documents.

Hi. I’m new here but following the thread.

Hi, Chapterixx.

Just want to ask for any updates as Ive seen your timeline and we’re almost the same date of biometrics. Thanks!

royjones · Post by **royjones** » Thu Aug 01, 2019 6:02 pm

Hi everyone,

Been in the background reading through each page of the forum, and i'm so happy i got to know about this insightful forum.....

@Chapterixx @ FatimaHussainSami pls any updates? i had my Biometrics on the 20th of May 2019, and then i got the "Thank you for your online application which has been received at the UK Decision Making Centre. Your application is currently being prepared for consideration by an Entry Clearance Officer" on 6th of June, 2019....

Non-priority application... 53 working days..

mrsc wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 31, 2019 8:31 pm

Chapterixx wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 21, 2019 5:36 pm
Hi,

Just adding our status to the list.

Online application made on 16th May 2019
Biometric attended by spouse on 20th May
Supporting documents submitted on 21st May
Case Handler acknowledgement on 19th June

'Please note that UKVI aims to complete all Settlement Visa applications within 12 weeks of the submission date' - Not sure if our 12 weeks started on the 19th of June, or in May when we completed our online application/submitted our documents.

Hi. I’m new here but following the thread.

Hi, Chapterixx.

Just want to ask for any updates as Ive seen your timeline and we’re almost the same date of biometrics. Thanks!

Alir86 · Post by **Alir86** » Fri Aug 02, 2019 11:29 am

Alir86 wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 16, 2019 4:34 pm

Alir86 wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 05, 2019 9:38 pm

Alir86 wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 21, 2019 6:36 pm

billalahmed wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 20, 2019 7:28 pm
I dont think it has been 97 working days if you have applied in March. Would be 97 days in total and remember since March there have been 4 bank holidays.

I know was bank holidays and in March was Easter holidays as well I am not sure now how many days but I have submitted my husbands application on the 7th of March and his biometric was on the 15th of March it was non priority application and I have applied trough the lawyer I have phone my lawyer to he is saying wait until end of this month I didn’t receive any call from HO neither my employer god knows m so scared wats going on with our application my heart beat fast when I think about to contacting them honestly it’s so stressful this period of time .

I have phone HO and they ask me my husband passport Num and his GWF and IHS Num date of birth and date when we applied which was 7th of March and his biometric was on 12th n they says it’s been over 12weeks now with in 15 working days they will let me know if the application is Daley or refused I am so stressed is anyone els contacted HO and got same response and what will happen after 15 days I am worried ??

Hi dose anyone heard back who applied in April mine been 4 months 6days and I have email HO they reply me my application behind considered now it’s awaiting a decision but don’t know how long m so worried god knows how long more they r going to take please advise me what els I can do

Hi everyone my husband received text msg from vfs it saying visa application processed 8/2/19 what dose that means m so nerves

Alir86 · Post by **Alir86** » Fri Aug 02, 2019 1:02 pm

Alir86 wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 02, 2019 11:29 am

Alir86 wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 16, 2019 4:34 pm

Alir86 wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 05, 2019 9:38 pm

Alir86 wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 21, 2019 6:36 pm

I know was bank holidays and in March was Easter holidays as well I am not sure now how many days but I have submitted my husbands application on the 7th of March and his biometric was on the 15th of March it was non priority application and I have applied trough the lawyer I have phone my lawyer to he is saying wait until end of this month I didn’t receive any call from HO neither my employer god knows m so scared wats going on with our application my heart beat fast when I think about to contacting them honestly it’s so stressful this period of time .

I have phone HO and they ask me my husband passport Num and his GWF and IHS Num date of birth and date when we applied which was 7th of March and his biometric was on 12th n they says it’s been over 12weeks now with in 15 working days they will let me know if the application is Daley or refused I am so stressed is anyone els contacted HO and got same response and what will happen after 15 days I am worried ??

Hi dose anyone heard back who applied in April mine been 4 months 6days and I have email HO they reply me my application behind considered now it’s awaiting a decision but don’t know how long m so worried god knows how long more they r going to take please advise me what els I can do

Hi everyone my husband received text msg from vfs it saying visa application processed 8/2/19 what dose that means m so nerves

Hi everyone just want to post that my husband got his visa alhumdulillha

best of luck everyone.

leopard2010 · Post by **leopard2010** » Fri Aug 02, 2019 2:20 pm

sabs2019 wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 31, 2019 2:28 pm

leopard2010 wrote: ↑
Sat Jul 13, 2019 2:35 pm
any update asifazohaib??????
any update leopard2010,
our time lines are similar
biometric 25/3/19
still no decision made

not yet still waiting

ZiZo · Post by **ZiZo** » Fri Aug 02, 2019 7:08 pm

Congratulations @Alir86!!

Alir86 · Post by **Alir86** » Fri Aug 02, 2019 11:39 pm

ZiZo wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 02, 2019 7:08 pm
Congratulations @Alir86!!

Thanks .c best of luck for all on this page .

Chapterixx · Post by **Chapterixx** » Sat Aug 03, 2019 8:24 pm

Hi,

Just adding our status to the list.

Online application made on 16th May 2019
Biometric attended by spouse on 20th May
Supporting documents submitted on 21st May
Case Handler acknowledgement on 19th June
Decision 'Success' on 2nd August (week 11 out of 12)

royjones · Post by **royjones** » Sat Aug 03, 2019 9:23 pm

Hi Chapterixx,

Please what do you mean by "Decision 'Success' on 2nd August"?

Have you gotten ur passport with the visa stamped? or you just got a mail about decision being made?

Were you ever called by HO?

I had my Biometrics on the 20th of May, 2019 like u, but got the ECO mail about application being considered on the 6th of June, 2019.. and nothing after that..

Thanks for anticipated response.

Chapterixx wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 03, 2019 8:24 pm
Hi,

Just adding our status to the list.

Online application made on 16th May 2019
Biometric attended by spouse on 20th May
Supporting documents submitted on 21st May
Case Handler acknowledgement on 19th June
Decision 'Success' on 2nd August (week 11 out of 12)

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