Hi, I know the website give guidlines on waiting times for visit visas to the uk from pakistan but I am just wondering how long people are actually waiting..anyone recently applied for a visit visa from pakistan? how long did you wait?
Thank you

I was in uk illegally and i was caught by uk border, i didn't seek asylum as i had applied for leave to remain because i had British partner with three kids. they refused my leave to remain and i decided to go back to my country Malawi. Now i want to apply for spouse visa and i dont know if they wi...

All good and well reading most of the feedback on this forum about cases being dealt with in a few weeks but is ANYONE in the same boat as us - been waiting for nearly 1 YEAR??

[quoteHi there, Congrats, My NCS told me it takes 4 months and your case appears to be like that. Other peoples applications seems to be processed in about 6-8 weeks? What caused delay? Did they talked to your referees? etc? we submitted ours in february and still have heard nothing back, we would ...

[quoteHi there, Congrats, My NCS told me it takes 4 months and your case appears to be like that. Other peoples applications seems to be processed in about 6-8 weeks? What caused delay? Did they talked to your referees? etc?[/quote] we submitted ours in february and still have heard nothing back, we...

tasawar wrote:AOA786

Yasmin i will submit my passport in Jan becouse of some problem and MRSAHMAD when did you submitted your passport in which year?

it was this year we submitted the passports. from submitting the passports to receiving the email to collect them it took two weeks. november this year.

it will take about 2 weeks to get your passports back. we got an email 10 days after submitting the passports. Where did you get the email from? Does the email tell you when your passport is ready for collection? My brother in law submitted his passport on the 15th december and hope to to get it ba...

on our acknowledgement letter there was no reference with ct just our home office reference number..

it will take about 2 weeks to get your passports back. we got an email 10 days after submitting the passports.

If you handed in documents in June then that is no time at all, start wondering if you havent heard anything by June next year. The Home Office like to take their time! Especially with cases like this, they can really be dragged out.

well ICEBREAKER if you come up with any ways that get them to look at your case pease let us know as we are in the same situation as yourself. Thanks

We was in the same situation as yourselves, we appealled which was refused and it was said that my husband should go back to his country and apply from there on the grounds of our marriage and children. This is the route we took and he returned and the case was dealt with in 3 months.

if we compare the data it looks like POSTAL application are quicker than NCS.. one reason is self addressed next day delivery enclose envelop do you think any other reason postal application are treated quickly ? the reason we use NCS normally an expert checkup to speedup the application and minimi...

So can anyone think of any reason why it could take 10 months, maybe a slightly more complex immigration history, my husband was an asylum seeker whos claim was rejected, marriage application refused with their suggestion of returning back to his home country and applying from there based on our mar...

MID13 wrote
You must be lucky, I applied same time as you and they took money same time, but still to date not allocated to a case worker, I dont know how they work![/quote]

Exactly what i think, dont know how they work at all, hopefully your not like us and still waiting 10 MONTHS down the line!

mekyle1@hotmail.com wrote:mrsahmed,

It has been 10 weeks since the decision was overturned and we have not heard anything since....

if you have recieved a response whether its a generic one or not, no doubt you will recieve an email when to submit your passport. 10 weeks isnt that long. dont worry to much!

you best option is to call home office and let them know you haven't heard from them yet if you applied for naturalisation. it says you have to wait for naturalisation for two week up to four weeks and how did you send it for them? did you send it with special delivery?? Already called them so many...

Hi we are just at a dead end with trying to find out why my husbands bc application is taking so long. It has been 10 months and no outcome. So frustrating. MP route no help at all, they just tell us what the home office has told us. 6 months is an average, waiting for information. Case can not be d...

we already have the visa, which could have been postdated, fair enough they couldnt postdate untill april 2011 but they didnt even update for the three months which they could have. They just chose to ignore our request on when we wanted to them to travel. I am not going to give up on this one. Fair...

didnt you give an email address, if you did then they would have emailed you when to submit your passport. maybe send them an email and say that you would prefer contact that way as the postal system is bad in Pakistan. thats what we did.

does anyone know if it looks bad not ever travelling on a visa then applying for another one when the first expires???

Not playing a blame game here. Allowed appeal - call letter to submit passports - submitted passports - and no we were not to know how long it would take - whole thing going on for around a year now so wasnt to know the last bit would take less that two weeks! Was looking for some advice as to what ...

no it was an allowed appeal so recieved the call letter. thats why we wrote a letter along side.

we said that they would like to travel in April 2010, I know they can not delay that long but we wasnt anticipating them issuing the visa in two weeks. We didnt give a length of stay but we did submit a letter with the passports. Main reasons being it is now winter so pointless them coming and not b...

we recieved an email to collect the passports 2 weeks after submitting them for issuing. vist visas.