Dear users, My parents will soon be going for an appointment for a Family visitor visa in India. The VFS and UK GOV websites have succeeded in confusing me about sponsor's documents. Can you please advise if my parents will have to carry my Original documents i.e. Bank statements, Council tax letter...

Thanks very much for the reply SoHopeful :) I think I will ask my dad to amend the printed copy when he submits the application. Also, to ensure I dont open another thread, can anyone please suggest if I have to send my Originals for the appointment? I have sent scanned copies through email, but I a...

Dear all, My parents are planning to visit me in the UK through Family Visitor visa route (I am a naturalised British Citizen). I am doing the applications on behalf of them and I managed to forget declaring my dad's recent tourist visit to Nepal. :( I have done it on my mum's application though. I ...

Dear users, I am a naturalised British Citizen and I have invited my parents who live in India to visit me for a period of 2 months. This is their second visit to the UK and I am planning to get them a visa for 2 years since they plan to take a few holidays in UK in the next 2 years. I have done the...

Dear all, This question is on behalf of my friend who recently received his British Citizenship. His parents want to visit him in the UK for a short trip and apparently they would visit him once or twice every year and they currently live in India. They don't have any intentions to settle in the UK(...

hello people... I need some information on Biometric Residence Permit. Today I have received my BRP for Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK but it has a valid date on it i.e. 2022 (10 years). I thought Indefinite UK visas has no time restrictions, please throw some light on it as I have no clue. A...

Hi all, might be a bit daft question but I want this cleared up, I am a British citizen and my wife is here on spouse visa which expires next month, we've booked the appointment online for the premium service. The question is, Can me and our lil 2month old baby go in with her although she's the onl...

Dear all, By grace of God my wife was granted her ILR on Wed 15/03/12. Thank you to all on this website who give advice to guide us all. I will write up our experience soon and hope it will help others like I was helped. For now I have a query regarding the delivery of the BRP. Does the applicant (...

GD78 wrote:For those of you granted ILR at a PEO recently...how long did it take for your BRP to arrive?

I had my PEO appointment for ILR on 6th March and received my BRP on 8th March.

Has anyone noticed that the new SET (O) form no longer requests details of all trips outside the UK The new form merely asks in Section 9 D.1 "Please confirm whether you have been outside of the UK for any single absence over 3 months or one or more absences which amount to more than 6 month in tot...

We travelled around 4 and a half years ago to multiple places in Europe through Star Tour 8 days tour. There is no stamp on passport for return to UK. There is only one stamp for this tour for one of the European destination. I do not have any evidence for this travel. I have an appointment with PE...

Can people share their experience of getting ILR letter and actual Biometric Card, the time taken to complete the whole process. I recommend if moderator can setup a sticky for date for people to put date of application and date of receiving Biometric card so we can make a fair estimation of time t...

Keyrun wrote:Congratulation *FC*.

Did they ask for WP letters ?

I was on WP from Jan 2007 to May 2009 and then Tier1 untill now. Do I have to take the WP letters with me?

Thanks,Kiran

Hi Keyrun,

Yes I was asked for the Work Permit letter. It is always safe to carry every piece of document you have

Hi all, I've just booked an ILR appointment online for next month, after selecting the date and time the next page showed the following, Appointment checklist Print and sign the official form and bring it to your appointment. To do this, click Continue below. Arrive 30 minutes before your appointme...

linkers wrote:Congrats *FC*: did she mention the word CRB or did she just say ‘checks’ ?

Well, I carried my CRB disclosure document too and asked her if it will be of any help to her. She told me that it will be done again after my biometrics are taken. So I presume she was talking about CRB checks.

FC

Hi all, I am very pleased to inform you all that I have received my ILR at Solihull PEO on 6th March 2012. :D My category was Tier 1 though the 5 years leave was made up of 1 year of WP and 4 years of Tier 1. Following were the documents I carried along for the appointment: 1. Passport (Current and ...

Dear Friends, Please let me know if printed copy of Electronic P60 is acceptable for ILR visa. this we get via email and is called as E P60 issued by HRMC It should be fine to carry along a printout of the P60 (Which was what I did, though I was never asked for any P60s). If in doubt, call HMRC and...

Hi, I will be applying ILR in PEO soon and I am covered under HSMP JR. As per rule, I need to prove economically active in the last 5 years. I have all 4 P60s for preious years. (I would not get the 5th year P60 until April this year). My question is, do I need to get a letter from HMRC for the emp...

Hi Moderotors I am going to ask the similar question which might have already been asked in different posts but reading those few of those I become a little bit confused. (thought it is better to ask again to calrify queries for few people) I am going to apply ILR next month on combination of Tier ...

Hi, Could some one pls clarify this doubt please. My Pay-slips are dated always month ending dates....But my salary payments are not as per those dates..They are 7 to 15 + days than Pay-slip dates. Is that OK ? Or it will create any Problem for ILR (SET(O)) ? How can I resolve this...... Thanks InA...

Hi, I am in Tier-1 General Visa. I know we should not stay more than 90 days continously outside the country in 5 yrs - is base rule for settlement. I am getting some job offer in Denmark/ Netherlands (outside UK). It will be 18 months stay. Can anyone please help me, is there any section give exce...

I have got my HSMP approval in the month of November 2006 and got passport stamped in Feb 2007 and after that I got extension for 3 years Feb 2009 which is valid till 23 Feb 2012. AS I am completing 5 years in April 25 so I am going for the ILR now. Sorry, can you please explain the timelines prope...

cuberoot wrote:This is why we are still waiting for the statement of intent:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12471060

The govt is still making announcements to the media and tweaking the changes.

Might include this as well.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12477563

hey guys, in case ukba announces that no extensions will be allowed after april 2011 for existing tier-1 holders,we have to just leave our jobs and come back to our home countries and start all over again?i have 1st extension in 2012.plzzz advice,m soo tensed Going by your query and answer the ques...

It's plain common sense. If one picks up new skills, it makes perfect sense to add them in the right order of date/time. However, one cannot add skills in an elapsed frame of time especially when the skills weren't shown in a previous version of CV.

FC