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Hi All,

Just wondered if there are any August ILR applicants, my wife submitted her SETM form at Nottingham council, using the SCS service on the 9th of August, her 2 years are due to finish on the 20th of August.

Just wondering if we can do a tracker thread, ive seen threads for other months and I thought it maybe useful to do one aswell!

Just a small not on the SCS service, useful, if you need your passports, Dudley council is my local council, but whilst they do the SCS service, just making an appointment with them is a thankless task, its a real unprofessional setup it seems, you have to call them or email them and generally wait 5 days for them to call you, and if you miss their call you have to phone back and wait another 5 days! Nottingham, charged a bit more but I got an appointment fairly quickly and managed to speak to them. They seem reasonably experienced, lets hope it all goes according to plan eh!

So here goes :

Application submission method : Using Settlement Checking Service at Nottingham council.
Type of application: SET(M)
Type of previous residency: 2 Years Spouse Visa (VAF4)
Dependant: 0
Payment method: Debit Card (ADVISED BANK OF PAYMENT AMOUNT PRIOR TO FORM SUBMISSION)

Date Applied: 09/08/2013
Date of payment taken: 15/08/2013
Date of the acknowledgement letter: 14/08/13 received 19/08/13
Biometric letter: 15/08/13 received 19/08/13
Biometrics done: 20/08/13
Date of approval:
BRP:

Hi, there.

Looks like we're about a week behind you.

We submitted my husband's SET(M) at Oxford SCS (lovely people, very easy to get an appointment) Tuesday 13th.

Be interesting to see how things go. Good luck to you.

Here's our timeline:

Application submission method: Settlement Checking Service at Oxford Registry Office
Type of application: SET(M)
Type of previous residency: 2 Years Spouse Visa
Dependants applying: 0 (we have a child who has British citizenship)
Payment method: Debit Card

Date Applied: 13/08/2013
Date of payment taken: 19/08/2013
Date of the acknowledgement letter:
Biometric letter:
Biometrics done:
Date of approval:
BRP:

hi

its a good post wassup. i found it informative and helpful. my own status is ILR and my wife is on spouse visa with one dependnt child. she is going to apply her ILR in a couple of days and her 27 months spouse visa will be expiring end of this month.
i just want to ask you a question regarding your wife's spouse visa duration. as you have mentiondc it was granted in july 2011, so how long was it for? 2 years or more?

Hi All, We got the acceptance letter yesterday and also the biometrics letter, were going to get the bio's done shortly.

My wife got her spouse visa granted in august 11, and its valid till October 2013, so about 27 months in total.

Keeping fingers crossed it all goes smoothly!

Hi applied using set lr( 10 years)

I got my acknowledgment letter on the 25th of July 2013
And my biometrics letter on the 2nd of August and did it on the 5th of August.
Here's hoping for a quick turn around ( before the year end)

Here's our updated timeline.

Date Applied: 13/08/2013
Date of payment taken: 19/08/2013
Date of the acknowledgement letter: 16/08/13 received 20/08/13
Biometric letter: 27/08/13 received 30/08/13
Biometrics done: 30/08/13
Date of approval:

Note on Biometrics: Post Office website is RUBBISH at trying to find where you can get them done. The link takes you to a generic branch finder.
Our local PO had the machine... but no staff were trained to do biometrics, grrr.
Still, after a jolly jaunt out cross country to the next county we got them done - very simple.

Now we wait......

Grey Jedi wrote:Here's our updated timeline.

Date Applied: 13/08/2013
Date of payment taken: 19/08/2013
Date of the acknowledgement letter: 16/08/13 received 20/08/13
Biometric letter: 27/08/13 received 30/08/13
Biometrics done: 30/08/13
Date of approval:

Note on Biometrics: Post Office website is RUBBISH at trying to find where you can get them done. The link takes you to a generic branch finder.
Our local PO had the machine... but no staff were trained to do biometrics, grrr.
Still, after a jolly jaunt out cross country to the next county we got them done - very simple.

Now we wait......

Yes I had to go to a PO quite a way away too, bit of a pain, but hey ho, its all part of the fun!

Good news this morning, got a letter from HO stating we will have the BRP sent to us via secure courier in the next 7 working days!

Happy days and thank god its been a simple and reasonably quick process, and the £100 spent at the Nottingham SCS service has been well spent imo
!

Application submission method : Using Settlement Checking Service at Nottingham council.
Type of application: SET(M)
Type of previous residency: 2 Years Spouse Visa (VAF4)
Dependant: 0
Payment method: Debit Card (ADVISED BANK OF PAYMENT AMOUNT PRIOR TO FORM SUBMISSION)

Date Applied: 09/08/2013
Date of payment taken: 15/08/2013
Date of the acknowledgement letter: 14/08/13 received 19/08/13
Biometric letter: 15/08/13 received 19/08/13
Biometrics done: 20/08/13
Date of approval: 19/9/2013

BRP: BRP to be delivered within 7 working days from 19/9/2013