We were applying recently for the same day premium appointment decision (nearly £600 on top of the ILR application fee of about £2,300) and the only slot was in Liverpool - we live in East Sussex and were hoping for Croydon. If you need a one day decision and can pay for it, it is well worth the tra...

Thanks, son is now looking into that. I'd like to add that I and my family did not know they should receive a very important letter on the day of application, and if I had not learned about it on this site, I would not have known to insist on their searching through their papers again. The administr...

Well, I have begged them (not for the first time....) to search through the papers returned to them in Liverpool extremely carefully, and this morning they have found The Letter they thought they did not have. A great relief. Now they have a reference number and can follow up the lack of BPR. Thank ...

I say "miraculous" because we have been working towards it for over ten years and it has twice been refused during that time. Son and D-in-law are very clear that they were given nothing at all except their papers back, and that they gave the administrator their correct home address for the BRP. I a...

My daughter-in-law miraculously was awarded ILR in Liverpool after I paid for the one-day decision service, 10th April, SET(O) application. But she was given nothing in writing - she was told the BRP would arrive in 6 - 10 days. A month later we have absolutely nothing to show that she has been gran...

I believe I posted this query in the wrong section, as I did not realise at first that there is a dedicated ILR section. I apologise, and I hope it is acceptable that I have re-posted it in the ILR section?

I did not realise that there was a dedicated ILR section, so I hope it is acceptable to move my ILR query here from the General section? Here it is: November 2009: my daughter-in-law from Thailand entered UK on a spouse visa. March 2012: she applied for ILR. It was refused, but she was granted Limit...

November 2009: my daughter-in-law from Thailand entered UK on a spouse visa. March 2012: she applied for ILR in March 2012, was refused, but was granted Limited Leave to Remain (also referred to as Discretionary Leave to Remain) for three years. March 2015: she applied for extension of Limited Leave...

Thanks. But does anyone know if this statement alongside her 2007 Life in UK pass still stands, or has it been cancelled? "Your success at this test also demonstrates that your level of competence in English meets the required standard for naturalisation or indefinite leave to remain . No further pr...

Can I ask if there is any time limit on the Life in the UK Test? My daughter-in-law (from Thailand) is due to apply for ILR by the end of this year, and she did her test back in 2007. Secondly, the letter with her Life in the UK certificate says: "Your success at this test also demonstrates that you...

Thank you. In case it is useful to anyone else, I have since found out that even an expired A1 test can be used (at that level only of course) if it has already been accepted as part of a successful previous visa application. In my friend's case, her previous applications have not been successful, s...

A friend has asked me to find out if her SELT English test A1, obtained in 2013, is still valid? Is there a time limit? Thank you.

Now that we are in March 2017, has there been any further clarification about whether or not ALL degrees obtained in UK are accepted as proving an acceptable standard of English for ILR application ? I ask because my daughter-in-law's 2003 BA (Hons) Applied Textiles Studies, obtained at Chiltern Uni...

Oh dear, further conversation reveals that all she has to Germany is a Tourist Visa at the moment.

Does anyone know if that makes it harder or even impossible for her to visit UK while she is in Germany?

Thanks for your reply (and I fully understand your doubts about the rules being correctly applied by airlines etc). Could you be kind enough to direct me to some official document I can quote to my friends? Are you saying that if she travels to UK without her husband she would have problems? Suppose...

A young friend presently in the Philippines but with no internet access, married for a year to a German, has just received a visa allowing her to move with him to Germany. Once in Germany, she is anxious to visit her mother in England but does not know if her marriage and visa will allow her to do t...