Plum70 wrote:Were you able to access your IM lapkapups?

I have not received any message from you

I can give COA issued on 3rd December (I applied 20th Nov) and letter enclosed with the endorsed passport which was issued on 28th May. It's not too long a time after the deadline and I don't have any proofs I received the documents back only 4th June. Will this do? How do we submit docs? Your supp...

Plum, I and my husband support you hundred percent! That's great lapkapups and mimiki. Thanks for your support! What we need is: 1. Evidence of a delayed COA (issued in a few weeks instead of 'immediately' as stated in law) 2. Evidence that the application of a residence card was processed over the...

I have received my residence card on friday.The summary is, I applied for it on 13 october 2007.Mean time I wrote 2 complaint letters to home office.I put my complaint to solvit as well.Then I received a letter from home office regrading my complaint,it was written that my application was decided o...

A story of a Dutch / Turkish in the Netherlands falling in love and marrying to a Turkish in Turkey. It has been a while we are married now. Almost two whole years gosh! Thanks to the strict immigration rules coming into force thenadays in whole Europe, first probably the Netherlands, we were seper...

Still waiting... By the way Lapkapups, could I ask you which documents you did send together with your application? For EEA2 I did send only a marriage certificate, both passports, wage slips as stated on the application form (you don't have to provide more as needed, if they need it they will requ...

Thanks lapkapups for your reply, is quite thoughtful of you to still be contributing in this forum given the fact that you have received your residence documents. Well done :!: You are welcome. I've suffered so much with this HO that I'm not indifferent towards what all of you are going through and...

A friend of mine applied in March and she still hasn't received COA. She applied through a laywer. Why did she use a lawyer? What was special about her situation? She should contact the Home Office. They are required to immediately issue the COA. She used a lawyer because her husband is self-employ...

Yes, Directive... The original EEA family permit was issued outside of the UK and expired at the end of May. I submitted the EEA2 application to the HO in march and am still waiting for the residence card to be issued. The deal with the embassies is that they want to see a valid UK permit on my pas...

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A friend of mine applied in March and she still hasn't received COA. She applied through a laywer.

Hi everyone, regular reader of this informative forum.Made application on EEA2 form early November 2007, still hasn't heard a word from HO. My suggestion is , why don't we name our various caseworkers on this forum so that we all will be well informed before hand about a lunatic caseworker who does...

We now have Solvit involved with my fiance's application, which was 9 Aug 2007. Today Solvit have told us that the HO have said the reason they haven't made a decision is because they are waiting for us to return the Method of Entry questionnaire they sent us in Jan, & so our application is not com...

1. Explicitly prohibit the authorities (HO in case of UK) from holding passports while they are mulling over our applications. (And probably all other original documents as well. Why can't they make photocopies and return the originals right away? I'm sure they make photocopies for their records an...

HI as i wrote my previous text I received an letter from home office and stated my application was decided on 13 may 2008,but so far I have not still my documentation.Moreover, today I phoned to home office asked for my application process, answer was so intersting: my application is still being co...

Plum70 wrote:Hey Lapkapups, congrats! Have you actually seen your passport yet? It must feel great to have it in your clutches after almost 7 months ay?

Is it valid for 5 years as normal?

Yes, I've seen the passport
The card is valid as normal, till 28th May 2013

Hi Lapkapups, Congratulations! I can imagine that you are totally relieved now. Did you had any plans to go on holiday? Spain perhaps. I saw that you applied on the 20th of November 2007. So, that makes 7 months and 15 days? Perhaps a hint for everybody: JUST GO TO THE CROYDON OFFICE MAKE A LOT OF ...

In total it's taken 6 months and 15 days

Hi guys! Just an update - I've got it! Champagne and a week of celebration!!! :D In short, I tried to call Croydon Complaints to find out what's happening as the guy in Liverpool could not deal with my case anymore since the papers were sent to Croydon. I could not get through to them on Mon and Tue...

HI, my application was decided 13 th May 2008, I have not still received my documentation. I sent a remainder letter to Liverpol regarding my documents,I will see What will happen. I am just tired of this. I think it's better call, both Croydon and Liverpool. I sent them I-don't-know-how-many lette...

Anybody heard back about your applications? I have just spoken to the Complaints in Liverpool and they said the same to me: my application was decided on the 28th, despatched to Croydon on the 29th so most likely they received it on 30th. They said it takes up to two weeks to be processed in Croydon...

I can't believe that we or somebody else can't do anything about it. I don't believe I will get the residence card (I applied in December) at time while some of you guys applied in October, November and are still waiting! If the six months are up (which is in about two weeks or so) I am going to ha...

I tried the enquiry line, but it takes so long to get through I mean I was waiting for almost 7 minutes and still nothing. So, then I called the North-West HO complaints department. The woman there told me that the application for the res. card for my wife was decided already and that it had been s...

Okey guys, we've got good news and bad news. The good news is that they have updated their website and currently for residence card applications and some more the applications under consideration are from January. That means for us guys that they really have decided it already. The thing is that it...

It sounds like in your case they have just been very disorganized. I am glad they have a time limit and that you followed up! This is also why I think it is useful to call on a regular basis and ask whether anything is outstanding on the application. There is no way to know if they are waiting for ...

We now have Solvit involved with my fiance's application, which was 9 Aug 2007. Today Solvit have told us that the HO have said the reason they haven't made a decision is because they are waiting for us to return the Method of Entry questionnaire they sent us in Jan, & so our application is not com...