86ti wrote:bunny80 wrote:it's been over a month since our solicitor asked the HO to release our residence cards and send us back our passports. we called them and they said they don't give details about how long it takes, not even as an average. we are supposed to get them in the mail, right? how long does it usually take?
A "regular" application appears to take a few months at the moment but for an appeal case it may be different. I guess you won't get much of a useful answer here except speculations...
The wording of the appeal court's decision would be quite interesting. From your original
message it was not fully clear why the RC was denied in the first place.
well, the HO said they don't consider gambling a reliable and stable source of income and that's that. the appeal judge disagreed because of all the bank statements going back almost 2 years, sites tracking my poker sessions and she decided it was stable and reliable enough (by the way, it's my understanding that's not even a valid reason to reject an application since it's not in the HO's ''wording'' - that's what the barrister and an immigration judge/solicitor have told me).
i'm not sure what you mean by ''a regular application appears to take a few months at the moment but for an appeal case it may be different''. we received the appeal decision around mid-february, the HO didn't appeal against it and it's already been over 2 months . it should just be about printing our cards and shipping them along with our passports and other docs, right? we did get our bank statements returned a few weeks ago, but that was it. could they be lost, is there anything we could do or anyone we could call?
