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the amount of times i check my post during the day is unreal. Waiting is hard:( i really think i should of had my approval by now if they accepted my english certificate. Had to retake it 
I am from 27 Sept and 3 oct NDRS still waitingThank you for the congratulation!!!
Thank you Pola.
AliSufii wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 1:13 amThank you for the congratulation!!!
Yours is in on the way... postman has your approval and it is Sunday so they must be chilling at home. Sure they are delivering you your approval on next week...
Waiting is hard... I total understand this, as I been through this.. waited over 68 days...
According to official HO processing timelines, they make most of the decisions after two months and followed by the third month when they make a second lot of the maximum number of decisions.
If you missed the line of being lucky and did not get your approval within a month, then surely you will be receiving it in two months lot.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... ember-2013
Seriously, I know few people on this form, they received their approval, even though they were getting this weird "YOUR APPLICATION WILL TAKE A WHILE" reply. I remember reading one had their approval waiting in their post box and they received a reply on that same day saying "YOUR APPLICATION WILL TAKE A WHILE". so that you never know. you might get it next week.dihahs wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 1:19 amAliSufii wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 1:13 amThank you for the congratulation!!!
Yours is in on the way... postman has your approval and it is Sunday so they must be chilling at home. Sure they are delivering you your approval on next week...
Waiting is hard... I total understand this, as I been through this.. waited over 68 days...
According to official HO processing timelines, they make most of the decisions after two months and followed by the third month when they make a second lot of the maximum number of decisions.
If you missed the line of being lucky and did not get your approval within a month, then surely you will be receiving it in two months lot.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... ember-2013
Haha i hope so...on Monday their reply was it will take while long etc. so it might take little more i guess.. main thing is i want that approved ...dont want bad news
Thanks for your kindness
AliSufii wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 1:24 amSeriously, I know few people on this form, they received their approval, even though they were getting this weird "YOUR APPLICATION WILL TAKE A WHILE" reply. I remember reading one had their approval waiting in their post box and they received a reply on that same day saying "YOUR APPLICATION WILL TAKE A WHILE". so that you never know. you might get it next week.dihahs wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 1:19 amAliSufii wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 1:13 amThank you for the congratulation!!!
Yours is in on the way... postman has your approval and it is Sunday so they must be chilling at home. Sure they are delivering you your approval on next week...
Waiting is hard... I total understand this, as I been through this.. waited over 68 days...
According to official HO processing timelines, they make most of the decisions after two months and followed by the third month when they make a second lot of the maximum number of decisions.
If you missed the line of being lucky and did not get your approval within a month, then surely you will be receiving it in two months lot.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... ember-2013
Haha i hope so...on Monday their reply was it will take while long etc. so it might take little more i guess.. main thing is i want that approved ...dont want bad news
Thanks for your kindness
Seriously this waiting is a whole other experience. @Bed, same 
first think I do is check the post when I get home everyday hoping for a brown envelope but all I get is white envelopes with bills. It’s getting to a point where I start telling myself I haven’t received anything just so stop being anxious but as soon as I get home the first thing I do is hope I’ve got an approval. Emailed them twice, same reply app will take a while longer! Coming to two months but it feels like 6. And congratulations to everyone that got their approval. Well deserved. Hopefully ours are already on the wayCongrats , have the best weekend of your life
hellow,yes i am fine thanks.and had been discharged on friday night,
see ,u r not alone,many other people r waithing for many months even years so have patient,i hope and pray may b all we hear good news incoming days as HO clearing backlog cases at the moment.Acctually they start work on file after biomatrics,before when they fee deduct from account,they also generate inquiry papers for different GOV and non GOV deparments,also international departments regarding applicants checking so all these things take time,number of inquiries they need to clear,also depend on other department,s response time,so if application take more time does not mean complicated case or less time means very straightford,its all considered on its own merits,circumstances,rout,ties and so on.when u get email, application is with caseworker means they r working or they just began to work on it.
I have emailed them a lot actually they sent me a letter last week asking me to retake the english test which i did, but didnt receive the certificate yet. I emailed my case worker attached with my pass letter from trinity college but havent heard from her since. They did send my passport back thought. Which makes me think they are just waiting for my english certificate. But then it might be because you need your passport to go in to the test maybe thats why they sent my passport back. They kept my biometric residence card which i asked them to anyway when i applied so i dont know really. It is so frustrating having to wait and check the mail box every daysalsabeel wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 11:27 amhellow,yes i am fine thanks.and had been discharged on friday night,
nope just getting same response application with caseworker last 3 weeks.so just praying
and will send my email on monday tomorrow morning.lets see and hope and pray all we will get positive response soon.
why u did not ask trinity college to send ur certificate to direct to ur caseworker,u just need to pay extra charges for post and thats it.i know someone in same boat and they did make arrangement with college to post it to caseworker. that way u will receive quick response from HO.If I were you I would send a covering letter to reiterate that you have passed the exam and Trinity college has agreed to send the certificate directly to HO.Bed wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 1:22 pmI have emailed them a lot actually they sent me a letter last week asking me to retake the english test which i did, but didnt receive the certificate yet. I emailed my case worker attached with my pass letter from trinity college but havent heard from her since. They did send my passport back thought. Which makes me think they are just waiting for my english certificate. But then it might be because you need your passport to go in to the test maybe thats why they sent my passport back. They kept my biometric residence card which i asked them to anyway when i applied so i dont know really. It is so frustrating having to wait and check the mail box every daysalsabeel wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 11:27 am
hellow,yes i am fine thanks.and had been discharged on friday night,
nope just getting same response application with caseworker last 3 weeks.so just praying
and will send my email on monday tomorrow morning.lets see and hope and pray all we will get positive response soon.
Congrats MateAliSufii wrote: ↑Sat Nov 24, 2018 7:24 pmFINALLY!!!
I received my approval today!!!
TOTAL TIME SINCE DATE OF ONLINE APPLICATION TILL TODAY:
2 months 7 days
or 9 weeks 5 days
or 68 days
or 1,632 hours
or 97,920 minutes
or 5,875,200 seconds
Guess what! My approval was sitting in my mailbox since the morning, and I was sitting here and replying to friends on the form. Did not check my mailbox today till 5 PM.
It says invitation letter will follow in a few days.
Even though I used NDRS-JCAP and there weren't any originals, they sent It in A4 plastic envelop not in brown letter type)
They retained the LIUK test. (As per the policy)
So happy!!!
Thank you, everyone. seems like approvals have started to come again. I hope more people will receive their approval next week.
Thank you, GOD, my family, friends, this form, and all you beautiful people. finally, the immigration journey ends.
very happy for you.Congrats Mate. Glad to hear thathamzababy wrote: ↑Sat Nov 24, 2018 11:34 amhi guys,
i recieved my approval letter today : took almost 2 months
Applied online 12/09
Ndrs & JCAP 19/09
Approval date : 21/11
Approval recieved : 24/11
no ceremony letter yet .. any idea how long that takes to come through , i am hoping to go europe during Xmas holidays with wife if the red copy makes it on time
Journey almost comes to an end , Best of Luck to you Guys
( i was only worried because i had not listed all of my jobs when i was in the UK from 2006-2009 during my Uni days as i had forgotten 10+ places i worked at and for how long etc i had right to work and clean immigration history, so i just skipped all that and wrote work/employment history after re-entrying uk in 2013-2018 on spouse of bc visa)
salsabeel wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 11:50 amsee ,u r not alone,many other people r waithing for many months even years so have patient,i hope and pray may b all we hear good news incoming days as HO clearing backlog cases at the moment.Acctually they start work on file after biomatrics,before when they fee deduct from account,they also generate inquiry papers for different GOV and non GOV deparments,also international departments regarding applicants checking so all these things take time,number of inquiries they need to clear,also depend on other department,s response time,so if application take more time does not mean complicated case or less time means very straightford,its all considered on its own merits,circumstances,rout,ties and so on.when u get email, application is with caseworker means they r working or they just began to work on it.
i saw many cases where people get approvals while they get email response different,so just relax and pray.
my bigest mistake,i did not use NCS i just post my application and also i received my biomatric very very late so i am unlucky why i did not use NCS services.
Thanks...hamzababy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 3:07 amCongrats , have the best weekend of your life
i dont know which council to ring , because the council i went to submit documents was not my local council and it was neighbouring council as my council didn't have date within 10 days.
secondly i am not sure which council home office chosen for me , because in the application where it asks you which council you want , i said , Any London Council.
It is strange, mine and hamzababy's reply just changed last Monday to "Application with caseworker" and within two days we received our approvals. We both have the same date on the approval 21st Nov. Seems like once your application is with caseworker it is very fast.salsabeel wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 11:27 amhellow,yes i am fine thanks.and had been discharged on friday night,
nope just getting same response application with caseworker last 3 weeks.so just praying
and will send my email on monday tomorrow morning.lets see and hope and pray all we will get positive response soon.
Thanks, Archer..Archer1 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 5:16 pmCongrats MateAliSufii wrote: ↑Sat Nov 24, 2018 7:24 pmFINALLY!!!
I received my approval today!!!
TOTAL TIME SINCE DATE OF ONLINE APPLICATION TILL TODAY:
2 months 7 days
or 9 weeks 5 days
or 68 days
or 1,632 hours
or 97,920 minutes
or 5,875,200 seconds
Guess what! My approval was sitting in my mailbox since the morning, and I was sitting here and replying to friends on the form. Did not check my mailbox today till 5 PM.
It says invitation letter will follow in a few days.
Even though I used NDRS-JCAP and there weren't any originals, they sent It in A4 plastic envelop not in brown letter type)
They retained the LIUK test. (As per the policy)
So happy!!!
Thank you, everyone. seems like approvals have started to come again. I hope more people will receive their approval next week.
Thank you, GOD, my family, friends, this form, and all you beautiful people. finally, the immigration journey ends.
Thats y i am worried and little panic too.only difference among hamzababy ur application and my one is there,never ever i did not receive this type of response from YOUR APPLICATION RECEIVED .......AND IT WILL TAKE LONG ........AliSufii wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 6:42 pmIt is strange, mine and hamzababy's reply just changed last Monday to "Application with caseworker" and within two days we received our approvals. We both have the same date on the approval 21st Nov. Seems like once your application is with caseworker it is very fast.salsabeel wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 11:27 amhellow,yes i am fine thanks.and had been discharged on friday night,
nope just getting same response application with caseworker last 3 weeks.so just praying
and will send my email on monday tomorrow morning.lets see and hope and pray all we will get positive response soon.
Hi Pola
