Letter to report to home office.

[NG1983]

Hi !!
Everyone thank you all for the good work you all are doing...I mostly cone onto this lovely site to read about people's experience and on some.occasions had benifitted from.information I got on this site.

Please I really need your thoughts on this..I am writhing on behalf of my kids father who had applied for Flp bases on two British kids. I am currently on permanent live to remain visa.

He does not live with me,but he helps me our with the kids alot in terms of taking them to sleep n looking after them while I work. HE HAD APPLIED using a solicitor in Dec and had received a letter for biometrics via the lawyer in jan to go and do his biometrics which he did ist week of Jan.
We never heard from the lawyers again until yesterday when he received another letter from d solicitor dates 21st of April from home office to go and do his biometrics.
Same yesterday the owner of the house where he lives called him and said he found a letter addresses to him and he asked him to send it over via email.

Surprising the letter was srnt from the home office dated 28th March asking him to report and his first reporting will be on the 10th April and the next one is first Tuesday of very month.Because these were happening late on Friday we didn't k ow what to do..
The lawyer asked him to go and do the biometrics which bears a different case ID from d one he did in January.He asked that we send him d letters as he was surprise HO wrote him directly.

Our fear is ....He has missed the first reporting because he received the letter late.Will that affect him??He wouldn't want to miss the reporting for any reason.

Secondly he is scared now about another biometrics now he has realized he missed a reporting date unknowingly. He is scared they might detain him from post office..

We will try n contact the solicitor on Monday morning but please has anyone experienced this..we are absolutely gutted that we missed this letter that was sent end of March..We Thor because see had used the solicitor all correspondence will be through him.

Does anyone know the way forward now..The gurus please what do you guys think..why do they have to send him a reporting letter and theybdidnr send it through the solicitor in that way we can get the letter..
I'm so shocked and I really do not know what we can do now..

Any suggestions will be welcomed..
Thanks

[bathanza]

Hello dear. Really sorry to hear about the mix up in correspondance. It is highly important that your husband attends the next reporting date, which will be next Tuesday.

If he is asked, he can explain how there was a mix up in the letter being sent to him.

Missing reporting or "absconding" will be used against your case if he continues to miss his duties in assessing his character. Don't worry, you have a pending case, although he does risk detainment but that's a risk all migrants have on the new bail conditions.

[Casa]

Post Office staff don't have the right to detain anyone.