FINAL UPDATE - week 44 I was finally awarded a Tier 1 Exceptional Talent endorsement after an 11 month wait. I was contacted in the first week of October by the Exceptional Talent processing team and they adviced me to submit additional information with any updates in my career portfolio. Since my a...
I called that number recently and after a 20-minute-hold the person was only able to inform me that no decision has been made on the application yet. The person did not know when and how long it will take despite the 4th month running on my application.
Please note the despite these new plans, anything coming under the Tier 1 and "exceptional talent" route will not be straight-forward as the previous point-based qualification routes. I applied for a Tier 1 Exceptional Talent visa in early Dec 2013. UKVI is not giving any updates on that apart from ...
APPLICATION STATUS (WEEK 12): Just to further update - this is the 12th week starting tomorrow with no response to-date from the Home Office. In this duration, I had to shell about 1900 GBP for my Tier - 2 General application due to 3 dependents. This duration basically confirms a fact that this rou...
APPLICATION STATUS (WEEK 5): To further update - I made a call on Wednesday, 08/01/2014 to the Home Office to get some feedback regarding the status of my Tier-1 ET endorsement application. The person on-the-line did not have any information about the processing times for the endorsement phase. She ...
I have had been digging through numerous questions asked under the Tier - 1 Exceptional Talent category over this forum and so-far very little information is available for those preparing or even thinking of applying under this category. After only partially being successful in gathering feedback ab...
