Hello, Our family (one main applicant, 3 dependents) needs to extend our leave, applying from within the UK for Tier 1 ET. This can take up to 8 weeks by postal application. The main applicant needs his passport back sooner than the 8 weeks. Can he visit a premium service centre, get a decision on t...
Hi zeeshan2008, Here is the only scenario I have experience with: my wife and I both live in the UK, and then our child is born in the UK. We applied for our child's PBS dependent visa separately from our own applications. (Before our son's birth, we already had valid visas, which were not ready for...
Our application was approved. In the end, we submitted (all original documents): Child's passport My passport (with my UK visa vignette, or "sticker", inside) Child's UK birth certificate Child's US "birth certificate" (report of consular birth abroad) My marriage certificate Council tax bill with m...
Type of application: PBS Tier 2 Dependent, for child born in UK. Note: Application for dependent child was sent in isolation (not with mine). Date of expiry of current leave (visa): My own leave expires Sept. 20, 2011 Date application posted: May 25, 2010 Date payment debited: May 28, 2010 Payment m...
In the end, an ICFN was NOT required for our son. The reason why is because I do not currently have an ICFN. We received our son's visa three weeks and one day after our payment cleared (slightly less than four weeks, counting from when we mailed off the application). No biometrics were needed, beca...
Update: Today I called the immigration enquiry bureau (IEB), specifically, the section that answers questions about processing times. (Side note: as advertised, it is fruitless to call before the 14-week mark, and also, there is no way at all to find out whether any post they sent you, might have be...
I called the immigration enquiry bureau (IEB) to ask for clarification on the matter of supporting documents. Unfortunately, it seems that the policy is to be intentionally vague about this matter. ME: The proof of maintenance and the child's passport are the two obvious documents to submit. Do we n...
I called the immigration enquiry bureau (IEB) to ask for clarification on this matter. The person who answered my call read the first two paragraphs of p. 24 along with me, and she agreed that the first two paragraphs seemed to contradict each other in meaning. Since she didn't know the correct answ...
My dependent son was born in the UK after my wife and I arrived. I am applying for my son's visa separately. (My wife and I already have visas that are valid through Sept. 2011.) Which supporting documents (evidence) should I include with the PBS Dependent application form? The only documents explic...
On the PBS Dependent application form (Version 04/10), I have a question about Section 2, Part F, "Identity Card for Foreign Nationals". I don't know whether to fill out this section, or whether to skip it. I am a Tier 2 (General) migrant worker with a vignette (sticker) in my passport indicating th...
