Lisa F wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 2:31 pm
Eligibility criteria: 
19 years resident + 19 years ILR (granted as a minor with British (by descent) mother)
Language Criteria: 
B1 & Life In UK Test
Nationality: 
South African
Method of application: 
Online & UKVCAS
Date of application: 
6 Feb 2019
Payment method: 
Debit Card
Date of acknowledgement: 
6 Feb 2019
Date of debit of fees: 
6 Feb 2019
Date of Biometric letter issued: 
N/A
Date of biometric letter received: 
N/A
Date Biometrics & Documents Upload: 
19 Feb 2019 @ UKVCAS Cambridge
Additional documents requested (due to passport expiring 2016): 
17 April 2019
Additional documents posted overnight recorded: 
23 April 2019
Refusal Letter received:  
24 June 2019
Letter arrived acknowledging additional documents received (seriously!?): 
23 July 2019
Letter of appeal, with supporting documents, posted recorded: 
1 August 2019
Letter of acknowledgement of appeal (dated 23rd August) received: 
29 August 2019
HO phone call to say refusal will be reconsidered: 
25 September 2019
Date on Approval letter: 
28 October 2019
Date of receipt of approval: 
4 November 2019
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: 
18th November
Date of Ceremony: 
4th December
Date of Passport Application: 
Waiting
Date of debit of fees: 
Waiting
Date Passport to be received: 
Waiting