Thanks. I don't think we'll ever get to the bottom of the disparity in processing times. It wasn't a particular rush for me but I did get fed up waiting as it approached the second anniversary of the applications. Really glad to get this over with.

Applications submitted online: 29 May 2019 Email acknowledging receipt of documents (Balbriggan): 31 May 2019 Request for updated photos: 19 Oct 2020 Confirmation of address email: 11 July 2021 Congrats email: NONE FBR certificates received: 21 July 2021 Finally at the end of this process after 774 ...

May 2019 applicant here. This morning (Sunday, by the way) I received the confirmation of address email. Over 25 months since original applications and 9 months since I sent in updated photographs of my children. I hope things move faster from here on and I hope this is encouraging for others who ha...

25 months and counting... (May 2019)

Team 5 by the way. Last correspondence was when they asked for updated photos (child applications) in October 2020. They got them but that is the last I heard.

Hi @anthonydoh I am exactly the same but 2 months behind you started the process in jul 2019 and got and email dec 2020 asking for updated photos for my little one. absolutely nothing since hoping im just near the top of the pile when they reopen. the lack of communication and access to documents i...

No, they did not ask for them to be signed. In fact, they explicitly stated "these photographs are not required to be witnessed".

Just an update (or lack of it). Applied May 2019 for my kids, documents received May 31, 2019. Got an email on October 19, 2020, demanding I send updated photos within 28 days or they would cancel the application (never mind that I live 3,000 miles away and there is a global pandemic). I sent them o...

Applied for my kids in May 2019.

Still waiting.

Seems my timeline is going above and beyond....... Application submitted online: 15 May 2019 Email acknowledging receipt of documents (Balbriggan): 29 May 2019 Confirmation of address email: Pending Date added to FBR: Pending Congrats email: Pending FBR certificate received: Pending Hoping to hear ...

Hi. Hoping some of you can help as I am running into brick walls with this one. I am a UK citizen, my wife is Filipino. We both live in Bermuda and have done for many years. She requires a visa to travel to the UK. It's just for a visit - we are not seeking to move to the UK. (We lived in the UK bri...

Here is our timeline: Sent: May 24 Received by UKBA: May 25 COA received: June 27 Residence card received: August 2 This was much faster than I had anticipated, well done to the staff there! Only 10 weeks! (We are a married couple). Congrates and could you plz elaborate that under wich category did...

Here is our timeline:

Sent: May 24
Received by UKBA: May 25
COA received: June 27
Residence card received: August 2

This was much faster than I had anticipated, well done to the staff there! Only 10 weeks!

(We are a married couple).

Thanks, 86ti. I guess I just have to cross my fingers and hope the UK citizenship doesn't become an issue. As you point out, my place and date of birth will be on the application form. Also, my Irish passport states that I was born in the UK. Ironically, I always thought that being born in the UK wo...

Thanks, Fysicus. Having read more about it more about this morning, and read your post, I think it's best not to tell them about my UK citizenship. It will create more hassle than it's worth, I think. I didn't realize that job-seeking was also considered as exercising a treaty right, so that was ver...

Hi everyone. Hopefully someone can offer some advice on whether we are taking the right route with our EEA Permit application... I am an Irish national, and Irish passport holder, however, I was born in the UK prior to Jan 1, 1983 so I think that also makes me a UK citizen. My wife is non-EU, and we...