4 April: sent application via next day delivery 5 April: Application delivered at HO 7 April: Payment made (£750) 15 April: Havn't received acknowledgement letter. Phone HO to find out whats going on, gave me ref number PB301......114. Been told my app is with a case worker. I should hear next w ...

Applied for FLR switching from HSMP:


Date Applied: 5 April 2008
Date Recd: 7 April 2008
Date of Payment: 7 April 2008
Decision and VISA date: 15 April 2008
Visa issued in passport: 29 April 2008
Documents Recd: 8 May 2008

(yes it took them 2/3 weeks to put the visa in my passport)

my timelines are Sent on 15th Feb 2008 HO recd on 18th Feb 2008 got ref no after calling them 25152* approved on 2 Feb 2008 recd original docs 14 Feb 2008 by royal mail indian national applied from Switzerland. I would like to thank everyone who helped me to get hsmp approval. monish I think you ...

I would suggest the following:

1. Phone Home Office hear what they say.
2. Speak to an agent who may want to submit your application on your behalve.

4 April: sent application via next day delivery
5 April: Application delivered at HO
7 April: Payment made (£750)
15 April: Havn't received acknowledgement letter. Phone HO to find out whats going on, gave me ref number PB301......114. Been told my app is with a case worker. I should hear next week.

I understand from reading all the topics that the new tier 1 system will allow ILR after 2 years.

I'm have HSMP now for 2 years. I'm thinking maybe I should apply/convert for the Tier1 VISA. Then it will mean I get ILR after 2 years ?


What do you think ?

bbdivo wrote:Even if you don't go through an exit procedure, immigration usually can work out from your travel records that you have overstayed.

How can they do this, if I get a new passport (i.e. if my old passport has expired) ?

Within two weeks of the expiry of her fiancee visa she informed me that she had obtained a business visa for 12 months. My understanding is in order to have a business visa you have to be associated with a company. Something like this: she works for a company in the Ukraine - they pay her expenses ...

Dear all, I have been getting a non-taxable payment as visiting fellow at an university (in the UK) since Nov 2004. I had applied for extension in Jan 2005 (1yr deadline was Feb 2005). The home office is not considering renewal as my payment is non-taxed. Does anyone know what can be done in such a ...

I only send a transcripts from the University Administration and I know a friend of mine did the same. It was original transscripts, not copies. We we approved.

Think they will refuse. On the application form you must state the country you obtained your license.... you will have to fill in USA and they most likely to refuse. You can phone them and ask them ?

Also, are you aware that you do not count either the day that you leave the UK or the day you return. That is, you only count days spent wholly abroad .... midnight to midnight ... and not any part-days. Let met get technical... If I leave on 1 Jan at 16:30, land in the other country 2 Jan 08:00 ...

I made copies of my passport before I gave it to the DVLA. Plus I gave them a prepaid special delivery envelope. This was also at the DVLA in Wimbleton.

Have you received at least your DVLA license ? Or did they loose it before processing the application ?

Best to apply again for EC when you have a job in the UK.

The Immigration officer won't ask for the HSMP letter.

Electronic register.... If there is a few thousand illigal immigrants in the UK, they not gonna police it, but let say there are millions of them, then they gonna start searching for these people. Let us say you enter the country on a tourist visa and overstay with a few months and exit the country ...

yes it will be.

I wondered if you have consifered HSMP, as you have a degree and your salary you mentioned plus work experience should be enought to get you the points ?

You get them to write a letter that will confirm your salary for each month. That is what I did and HO seem to have accepted it.

You have to proof that you been economic active. You will need pay slips or similiar proof.

Funny, with £9000 in a bank account they should approve your EC, the £9000 will exclude credit limits. Must be be able to draw the cash in the UK.

Other reasons why they can refuse your EC is your EC application is not consistant with your HSMP application.

At worse we will have to wait an extra year. The point made that you will have to apply for 1 year and then ILR will be restrain on IND resources, unless they going to charge a lot of money for such applications to recover the costs. I think the reason for the letter change is to be political ...

Anybody noticed the new HMSP application forms and MBA Provision ? http://www.workingintheuk.gov.uk/working_in_the_uk/en/homepage/schemes_and_programmes/hsmp/mba_provision.html The HSMP is designed to attract highly skilled people to the UK to seek and take work. The MBA provision within this ...

When I send my application last year I had to sign a declaration that I intend to remain indifinite in the UK. I had to make the declaration when applied for EC.

Mine read: If you wish to apply for further extension of stay as a holder of an Immigration Employment document towards the end of you permitted stay, you should apply on the appropriate form. These forms can be obtained from our website www.workingintheuk.gov.uk or by telephoning our distribution ...

I didn't enclosed an envelope and they sent it to me via special delivery.