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Following would a typical list of documents you should have while applying for ILR -

1. Duly completed SET(O) form
2. Your Passport and a Passport size photograph
3. Valid Visa stamps in your passport covering your 4 continuous years of Work permit stay in the UK.
4. Last 6 months Salary slips (not a strict requirement, but atleast 3 months slips would help)
5. Latest bank statement covering atleast the last 3 months transactions.
6. Ensure you have adequate funds in your bank balance on the date of application - typically, say, balance to cover your typical monthly expenses for the next 6 - 8 months.
In case you have funds acrosss variuous savings accounts and current accounts, bring statements of all of these bank accounts to prove your savings/balances to cover up the next 6-7 months funds support requirements.
This is just to prove to the Home Office that you would not be depending on the UK Public Funds to support yourself for your stay in the UK, atleast for a forseeable future.
7. Bring one or two documents to prove your address in the UK - documents could include original tenancy agreements, recently paid Electricity bill, recently paid Gas Bill, Council tax Book/card.
8. Most Important - Letter from your current employer stating that you are currently in employment with them and would continue to do so for a forseeable future.
9. Your current Work permit and Leave to remain document sent to you by HO (again this is not a requirement, but would be handy in case you need it for whatever reason).

Notes -

1. If you are applying for ILR with your family, please take the passports of your Wife and children.
2. In case your wife's passport does not reflect your name as her spouse in her passport, please take your Marriage certificate as well. Just in case, it is needed. Again not a neccesity.
3. I take it that you are an Indian national - hence you do not need to comply with the Poilce registration requirements. So you do not need to take any such documents (as indicated in Form Set(O)). So don't worry about that.
4. Your 4 years Income tax returns or acknowledgement letters from Inland revenue also could be handy to prove your 4 year stay - having said that, this is not a neccessity - so you don't have to take it with you, but as I always say, it could be handy, just in case.
5. If you are applying personally, please make sure to Que up in the Immigration office, atleast by 6.30 - 7.00 in the morning. This way you "might" get the approval the same day. But don't bank on it.

If you want a quick turn-around of your application, may be you can take Workpermit.com's special ILR application slots fecility. This way you can get a "decision" on your application in 2-3 days.

Prepare a checklist of the above, and try to take with you on "that day", as much of the above documents as possible (but defenitely take the compulsory ones).

Remeber, while talking to the officer who will be dealing with your application, feed him with the above documents as he/she asks you to feed/give. Do not pour all the above documents on him straightaway.

Just a handy tip! - from my own experience in dealing with Immigration officers.
They don't like us giving away all the information "ex-tempore" by ourself.
They always like it to be "at their call".

Also, if your 4 years anniversary completes in December 2002, remember that you can apply maximum 4-5 weeks before that completion - say, maybe, in your case, some time towards the end of November 2002 or 1st week of December 2002 (depending on the exact date of your 4 year anniversary).

Hope that helps.

Good Luck and regards.

[ July 10, 2002: Message edited by: User ]

As for the bank balances - there is no "limit" you should show!

Ideally I would advise you to have 6-8 months funds requirements for supporting/covering up your normal UK expenses (based on the past exps. of yours).

If you want a GUIDE flat figure, I would say -

If single - say - £15000 from all sources.
If with family - around £18000 from all sources.

That should suffice - I think, to prove that you won't be depending on UK Public funds for supporting yourself/family.

Good luck.

regards.

[ July 14, 2002: Message edited by: User ]

Pesonally I would not advise that.

In your situation, since you don't have that much funds, I would advise you to have something like £5000-6000 from your past savings in your UK bank account and the rest of the work should be taken care by your salary slips (last 3-6 months) and the letter from your employer stating that your employment would continue with them for the foreseeable future.
I think that should work for you.

So the point is - you don't have to go for a loan for this purpose.
The other documents I have advised should reasonably take care of your application. Don't worry.
So long you can prove to the Immigration officer that you won't be a burden to UK govt., you should be fine.

Take care.

regards.

If a person came to UK from Ireland, how can he or she confirm when exactly he or she arrived to the country? I mean - they do not date-stamp passports for people coming from Ireland - i.e. you have valid visa, but you do not have imm. control stamp there - it's completely legal, but how can you confirm that you have spent 4 years in the country? Ok - people with police registration possibly can use stamp in their police registration form, but what about other people?

A good question and hopefully it’s only a hypothetical one in your case. I would imagine that someone coming from Ireland should have asked to see a UK immigration officer upon arrival so that his/her leave to enter would be properly stamped. Without that leave to enter, how can the person have the work permit length of time conditions entered into his immigration record and passport? If the person left later to go to another country and returned, he would have nothing in his passport, so the leave to enter would probably count from that date instead of when he first arrived from Ireland. Hopefully someone has a better answer.

Regards,

Joseph

I mean one could coincidentally end up with say just £ 2000 or less when the time comes to apply for ILR. The pay slips and the employer letter should be sufficient?

I know that the immigration officers are more or less all in all in their decision to grant ILR. But how much right does an applicant have?