Settlement Visa Applications - INDIA TIMELINES ONLY

[Nsafi]

Country applying from: New Delhi- India
Type of visa applied for: Settlement
Priority/Non-Priority: Non Priority
Online Application Completed: 1 Jan 2019
Biometric taken: 14 Jan, 2019
Documents sent to Sheffield: 14 Jan, 2019
Documents received at Sheffield:
Email from UKVI: 'Application being prepared for ECO consideration on 13th Feb, 2019
Application not straightforward on 4th April 2019
Sponsor contacted by UKVI (if applicable): No
Documents returned: 25 Jan, 2019
Decision made email from UKVI: No
Decision made text from VFS :
Passport collected/delivered:

[Moorthy]

My 1st application was refused on 4th May 2018

Country applying from: Sri Lanka
Type of visa applied for: Settlement - Wife
Priority/Non-Priority: Non Priority
Online Application Completed: 18 Jan 2019
Biometric taken: 21 Jan, 2019
Documents sent to Sheffield: 08 Feb 2019
Documents received at Sheffield: 11 Feb 2019
Email from UKVI: 'Application being prepared for ECO consideration on 15 Feb, 2019
Application not straightforward on 27 March 2019
Employer contacted by UKVI: -
Sponsor contacted by UKVI:03 April 2019
Decision made email from UKVI: Not yet
55days from biometric

[Shakshi]

Hi me also in same boat
My 1st application was refused on 7th Jan 2019

Country applying from: Sri Lanka
Type of visa applied for: Settlement - Wife
Priority/Non-Priority: Non Priority
Online Application Completed: 13 Jan 2019
Biometric taken: 16 Jan, 2019
Documents sent to Sheffield: 28 Jan, 2019
Documents received at Sheffield: 29 jan 2019
Email from UKVI: 'Application being prepared for ECO consideration on 14th Feb, 2019
Application not straightforward on 21st March 2019
Sponsor contacted by UKVI (if applicable): No
Documents returned: 7 feb 2019
Decision made email from UKVI: Not yet
Decision made text from VFS : Not yet
Passport collected/delivered:???????

Update 60 WD completed very worried

[saif123]

Type of visa applied for: Spouse settlement / Husband
Priority/Non-Priority: Non Priority,
Online Application Submitted: 13/01/2019
Bio-metrics taken: 17/01/2019
Documents received at Sheffield: 21/01/2019
Documents returned: 06/02/2019
Email stating "Your Application is currently being prepared for consideration by an Entry Clearance Officer": 14/02/2019
Employer contacted by UKVI: No
Sponsor contacted by UKVI: 09/04/2019 ??
Case not straightforward email: 05/04/2019
Decision made email from UKVI:
VFS Text for passport collection:
Passport Collected:
Status:
Missed calls from private number twice on the 9th feeling nervous, sick and worried i have a 1 year old son i just hope everything goes well i hope allah reunites us lil family just hope and pray he gets the visa .. Allah help me just loosing pateince .. sucha hard TEST

[saif123]

Received a call today from homeoffice 8am in the morning had a interview for at least about 20-30 mins ... Answered every single questions mainly about my work ...
feeling alot better and positive Alhamdullilah
now the rest is up to Allah sweet.

Type of visa applied for: Spouse settlement / Husband
Priority/Non-Priority: Non Priority,
Online Application Submitted: 13/01/2019
Bio-metrics taken: 17/01/2019
Documents received at Sheffield: 21/01/2019
Documents returned: 06/02/2019
Email stating "Your Application is currently being prepared for consideration by an Entry Clearance Officer": 14/02/2019
Employer contacted by UKVI: No
Sponsor contacted by UKVI: 09/04/2019 ??
Case not straightforward email: 05/04/2019
Decision made email from UKVI:
VFS Text for passport collection:
Passport Collected:
Status:
Missed calls from private number twice on the 9th about 1-1:30 pm after noon.. feeling nervous, sick and worried i have a 1 year old son i just hope everything goes well i hope allah reunites us lil family just hope and pray he gets the visa .. Allah help me just loosing pateince .. sucha hard TEST
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[Sam94]

Type of visa applied for: Spouse settlement / Husband
Priority/Non-Priority: Non Priority,
Online Application Submitted: 08/03/2019
Bio-metrics taken: 21/03/2019
Documents received at Sheffield: 02/04/2019
Documents returned: Not Yet
Email stating "Your Application is currently being prepared for consideration by an Entry Clearance Officer": 09/04/2019
Employer contacted by UKVI: No
Sponsor contacted by UKVI: No
Case not straightforward email:
Decision made email from UKVI:
VFS Text for passport collection:
Passport Collected:
Status:

[saif123]

Feeling sick & nervous how long do i have to wait any one in the same situation please do share
Type of visa applied for: Spouse settlement / Husband
Priority/Non-Priority: Non Priority,
Online Application Submitted: 13/01/2019
Bio-metrics taken: 17/01/2019
Documents received at Sheffield: 21/01/2019
Documents returned: 06/02/2019
Email stating "Your Application is currently being prepared for consideration by an Entry Clearance Officer": 14/02/2019
Employer contacted by UKVI: 09/04/2019
Sponsor contacted by UKVI: 10/04/2019
Case not straightforward email: 05/04/2019
Decision made email from UKVI:
VFS Text for passport collection:
Passport Collected:
Status:
Missed calls from private number twice on the 9th feeling nervous, sick and worried i have a 1 year old son i just hope everything goes well i hope allah reunites us lil family just hope and pray he gets the visa .. Allah help me just loosing pateince .. sucha hard TEST
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[hardeep5086]

Type of visa applied for: Spouse settlement / Husband
Application submitted :vfs chandigarh
Priority/Non-Priority: Non Priority,
Online Application Submitted: 28/01/2019
Bio-metrics taken: 30/01/2019
Documents received at Sheffield: 14/02/2019
Additional information email received :20/02/2019
Documents returned: No
Email stating "Your Application is currently being prepared for consideration by an Entry Clearance Officer": No
Employer contacted by UKVI:No
Sponsor contacted by UKVI: No
Case not straightforward email: No
Decision made email from UKVI:
VFS Text for passport collection:
Passport Collected:
Status:

52 working day from biometric

[Bsis]

Type of visa applied for: un-married settlement
Priority/Non-Priority: Non-Priority, Jalandhar India
Online Application Completed: 07/01/2019
Bio-metrics taken: 21/01/2019
--Documents sent from UK--
Documents sent to Sheffield: 21/01/2019
Documents received at Sheffield: 22/01/2019
Documents returned: Yes
Acknowledgment Email from UKVI: Yes on 15/02/19
Sponsor contacted by UKVI (if applicable): NO
Case not straightforward email:
Decision made email from UKVI:

58 working days complete. Still waiting

[Moorthy]

My 1st application was refused on 4th May 2018

Country applying from: Sri Lanka
Type of visa applied for: Settlement - Wife
Priority/Non-Priority: Non Priority
Online Application Completed: 18 Jan 2019
Biometric taken: 21 Jan, 2019
Documents sent to Sheffield: 08 Feb 2019
Documents received at Sheffield: 11 Feb 2019
Email from UKVI: 'Application being prepared for ECO consideration on 15 Feb, 2019
Application not straightforward on 27 March 2019
Employer contacted by UKVI: 03 April 2019
Sponsor contacted by UKVI: 03 April 2019
Decision made email from UKVI: Not yet

60 days finished from biometric but still waiting for the decision

[inderjeet101]

Type of visa applied for: Spouse Settlement - Husband
Priority/Non-Priority: Priority, VFS Hyderabad, India
Online Application Submitted: 23/02/2019
Bio-metrics taken: 05/03/2019
Documents Sent to Sponsor in UK: 05/03/2019
Documents Scanned at VFS London (As per new process): 08/03/2019
Documents returned by VFS London: 12/03/2019 - VFS sent the documents to Sponsor by Courier after Scanning
Email stating "Your Application is currently being prepared for consideration by an Entry Clearance Officer": 22/03/2019
Additional Documents (Employment Letter) asked by UKVI: 05/04/2019
Employer contacted by UKVI: No
Sponsor contacted by UKVI: No
Case not straightforward email: No
Decision made email from UKVI: No
VFS Email for passport collection: No
VFS Text for passport collection: 12/04/2019
Passport Collected: 12/04/2019
Status: Approved
Vignette: 24/04/2019 to 24/05/2019

29 Working Days from Biometrics
26 Working Days as per Decision Letter dated 09/04/2019

Super Happy, I will be reunited with my wife after 9 months. Thanks to all the members who answered my queries on this forum. Thankful to God for giving us all the patience through this testing time.

[Remm]

Type of visa applied for: Spouse settlement
Priority/Non-Priority: Non Priority, VFS Pune
Online Application Submitted: 29/01/2019
Bio-metrics taken: 31/01/2019
Documents sent to Sheffield: 11/02/2019
Documents received at Sheffield: 12/02/2019
Documents returned: -
Email stating "Your Application is currently being prepared for consideration by an Entry Clearance Officer": 19/02/2019
Employer contacted by UKVI: No
Sponsor contacted by UKVI: No
Case not straightforward email: No
Decision made email from UKVI: Not Yet
VFS Text for passport collection: Not Yet
Passport Collected:
Status: Decision Awaited

51WD from Bio metrics Appointment

[ssd04]

Application and documents submitted & biometrics enrolled at : UK spouse visa settlement, Non Piority
Online application: 31/1/2019 online
Biometrics: 5/2/2019 At New Delhi
Documents sent: 5/2/2019 post office sent using parcelforce and documents did not reach had to do escalation as was given wrong address.

Escalation for documents: 7/2/2019
Email to say recieve documents: 20/2/2019
Email to say in decision making centre: 20/2/2019


Sponsor contacted by UKVI (if applicable): 21/3/2019
Employer contacted: 21/3/2019

Contacted with 'decision made' : 12/4/2019
Contacted for Collection :
Collection made :
Decision of Application :

Awaiting to see what results bring fingers crossed so worried and hope this timeline helpss someone reading!

[Sumit_sam]

Updates :

62 WD now and still counting...

Sharing my timelines below :
Type of visa applied for:Settlement, Husband.
Priority/Non-Priority: Standard, VFS Chandigarh, India
Astating "Your Application is currently being prepared for consideration by an Entry Clearance Officer": 14/02/19.
Email requesting additional documents by UKVI (if applicable): 27/02/19 like photographs, WhatsApp Calls, conversation etc, gave 10 days to send
Documents sent via Email: 08/03/19.
Case not straightforward email - NO
Decision made email from UKVI: Awaiting!!!
Pls keep praying!!
Anybody in similar situation, pls do share your timelines... as it really help others to pass through this tough phase. Thanks

[zainie786]

Type of visa applied for: Spouse settlement / Wife
Priority/Non-Priority: Non Priority,
Online Application Submitted: 31/03/2019
Bio-metrics taken: 08/04/2019
Documents submitted in London : 11:04/19
Email stating "Your Application is currently being prepared for consideration by an Entry Clearance Officer": no
Employer contacted by UKVI: No
Sponsor contacted by UKVI: No
Case not straightforward email: no
Decision made email from UKVI: no
VFS Text for passport collection: no
Passport Collected: no
Status: in progress

[Sumit_sam]

Updates :

62 WD now and still counting...

Sharing my timelines below :
Type of visa applied for:Settlement, Husband.
Priority/Non-Priority: Standard, VFS Chandigarh, India
Online Application Completed: 16/01/2019
Bio-metrics taken: 17/01/2019
Documents sent to Sheffield from UK-- 21/01/19
Documents received at Sheffield: 22/01/19.
Documents returned: 07/02/19
Email stating "Your Application is currently being prepared for consideration by an Entry Clearance Officer": 14/02/19.
Email requesting additional documents by UKVI (if applicable): 27/02/19 like photographs, WhatsApp Calls, conversation etc, gave 10 days to send
Documents sent via Email: 08/03/19.
Case not straightforward email - NO
Decision made email from UKVI: Awaiting!!!
Pls keep praying!!
Anybody in similar situation, pls do share your timelines... as it really help others to pass through this tough phase. Thanks

[CR001]

Can members posting in this topic kindly ONLY post when you have an update to post and NOT when you are only posting the same information and adding a daily '60 wd now' post. It is unnecessary to post daily how many days have passed. Any further posts of this nature will be removed if there is no actual timeline update.

[Bsis]

Can members posting in this topic kindly ONLY post when you have an update to post and NOT when you are only posting the same information and adding a daily '60 wd now' post. It is unnecessary to post daily how many days have passed. Any further posts of this nature will be removed if there is no actual timeline update.

I post today as I received the update from Home Office today.
Sorry if I miss understood or miss read your guidelines.

[ssd04]

Application and documents submitted & biometrics enrolled at : UK spouse visa settlement, Non Piority
Online application: 31/1/2019 online
Biometrics: 5/2/2019 At New Delhi
Documents sent: 5/2/2019 post office sent using parcelforce and documents did not reach had to do escalation as was given wrong address.

Escalation for documents: 7/2/2019
Email to say recieve documents: 20/2/2019
Email to say in decision making centre: 20/2/2019


Sponsor contacted by UKVI (if applicable): 21/3/2019
Employer contacted: 21/3/2019

Contacted with 'decision made' : 12/4/2019
Contacted for Collection : 15/4/2019
Collection made : 15/4/2019
Decision of Application : visa granted 17-4-2019 to 17-5-2019


Total Time 47 days

[Shakshi]

[quote=Shakshi post_id=1760823 time=1553667887 user_id=215084]
Hi me also in same boat
My 1st application was refused on 7th Jan 2019

Country applying from: Sri Lanka
Type of visa applied for: Settlement - Wife
Priority/Non-Priority: Non Priority
Online Application Completed: 13 Jan 2019
Biometric taken: 16 Jan, 2019
Documents sent to Sheffield: 28 Jan, 2019
Documents received at Sheffield: 29 jan 2019
Email from UKVI: 'Application being prepared for ECO consideration on 14th Feb, 2019
Application not straightforward on 21st March 2019
Sponsor contacted by UKVI (if applicable): No
Documents returned: 7 feb 2019
Decision made email from UKVI: No
Decision made text from VFS : call 16/04/2019
Passport collected/delivered:collected
Visa granted thank god
Thanks everyone

[Dsandhu]

pplication and documents submitted & biometrics enrolled at : UK spouse visa settlement, Non Piority
Online application: 28/2/2019online
Non priority
Biometrics: 8/3/2019 At Jalandhar
Documents sent:15/3/2019
Document received: 18/3/2019 : checked with tracking number
Email to say recieve documents: nothing so far
Email to say in decision making centre: nothing so far

Sponsor contacted by UKVI (if applicable):

Its been 29 days so far i have not had acknowledgement emails and my documents returned back.

[Dsandhu]

Type of visa applied for: Spouse settlement / Husband
Application submitted :vfs chandigarh
Priority/Non-Priority: Non Priority,
Online Application Submitted: 28/01/2019
Bio-metrics taken: 30/01/2019
Documents received at Sheffield: 14/02/2019
Additional information email received :20/02/2019
Documents returned: No
Email stating "Your Application is currently being prepared for consideration by an Entry Clearance Officer": No
Employer contacted by UKVI:No
Sponsor contacted by UKVI: No
Case not straightforward email: No
Decision made email from UKVI:
VFS Text for passport collection:
Passport Collected:
Status:

52 working day from biometric

Moderator edit:
@Dsandhu Please respect that this is a TIMELINE THREAD ONLY. Any question posts have been and will continue to be removed.

[revathykanickaraj]

Type of visa applied for: Spouse settlement / Wife
Priority/Non-Priority: Non Priority
Online Application Submitted: 02/Mar/2019

Bio-metrics taken: 20/march/2019
Documents received at Sheffield: 26/march/2019
Documents returned: 3/april/2019
Email stating "Your Application is currently being prepared for consideration by an Entry Clearance Officer":
Employer contacted by UKVI:
Sponsor contacted by UKVI:
Case not straightforward email:
Decision made email from UKVI:
VFS Text for passport collection:
Passport Collected:
Status:

[Remm]

ype of visa applied for: Spouse settlement
Priority/Non-Priority: Non Priority, VFS Pune
Online Application Submitted: 29/01/2019
Bio-metrics taken: 31/01/2019
Documents sent to Sheffield: 11/02/2019
Documents received at Sheffield: 12/02/2019
Documents returned: Still not recived documents back even tho we have for the visa
Email stating "Your Application is currently being prepared for consideration by an Entry Clearance Officer": 19/02/2019
Employer contacted by UKVI: No
Sponsor contacted by UKVI: No
Case not straightforward email: No
Decision made email from UKVI: 22/04/2019
VFS Text for passport collection: 22/04/2019
Passport Collected: 25/04/2019
Status: Visa Granted Alhamdulliah

55WD from Bio metrics Appointment
Visa entry: 23/04/2019-23/05/2019

I pray for you all that everyone gets there Visa InshaAllah and can be united with there loved ones
Pray,pray,pray and keep faith in Allah

[Dsithu]

Type of visa applied for: Spouse settlement(wife)
Priority/Non-Priority: Non Priority, VFS Chennai
Online Application Submitted: 23/01/2019
Bio-metrics taken: 1/02/2019
Documents sent to Sheffield: 15/02/2019
Documents received at Sheffield: 16/02/2019
Documents returned: 22/02/2019
Email stating "Your Application is currently being prepared for consideration by an Entry Clearance Officer": 08/03/2019
Employer contacted by UKVI: No
Sponsor contacted by UKVI: No
Case not straightforward email: 25/04/2019
Decision made email from UKVI: Not yet
VFS Text for passport collection: Not yet
Passport Collected: Not yet

After 58 working days we received not straightforward email from HO, depressed and sad to receive an email like that after a long wait