When is your court date? My suggestion is wait till the outcome of that and see what sentence you get. Based on that we can work it out. My advice would be don't risk applying for the ILR until you have actually served your disqualification/ban if you do get any. Atleast leave three months after com...

Katamatin, You need to give the Life in UK Test irrespective, unless you fall under HSMP Judicial Review. I have studied in the UK and in English medium, still I had to take the Life in UK Test. And once you get your ILR and if you plan to apply for Citizenship, you will have to give the Life in UK ...

Once again thanks all for guiding me and giving me support so far. Pahini, Thanks I will send the email as suggested and hopefully should get some reply back. Will keep you and other members posted. Nksg, Please can you tell me when did you get your T1? And when did your colleague got his/her ILR ? ...

Hi All, I have been asking this same question around to plenty of people and all of asked to mention it. I will mention it without a doubt, made up my mind on that. Now further to this the confusion is - What documents should be provided along with? - Please please can anyone give me more details on...

I am applying for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) in person at the end of this month 30/10/2009. My application is based on Work Permit + HSMP (Fall under Judicial Review) + Tier 1 (General). Time on working visas - September 2003 - Till Date. Here's my major concern for Drink Driving Conviction: I...

This also applies to postal applications and in person applications.

I would advise never to cut it too fine. Apply before 27 - 26 days rather than 28 days.

My advice would be 20th Nov 09.

Senior members might have a different view. Member please do advise.

Thanks Ash and Pahini.

Appreciate all the guidance you have given me.

I will try and obtain the respective documents mentioned in the post.

Any more questions I will try and post it here.

Thanks again.

Thanks for your reply Pahini. Appreciate it. Recently I discovered that my HSMP application was made before the 03 April 2006 so I fall under HSMP JR. Question 1: Will only past 4 years of stay and absences will be taken into consideration? Question 2: What sort of financial documents will I need to...

Hi All, I am planning to apply for ILR next month and had a few queries if someone could be kind enough to guide me in the right direction. Visas held: 05/SEP/2001 - 30/NOV/2003 - Student Visa(s) 11/SEP/2003 - 31/JUL/2008 - Work Permit (Granted for approx 5 years. Applied for HSMP while I was on wor...