Canadian spouse SET (M)
Feb 5th 2018, 1:40 pm
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Canadian spouse SET (M)
Hello all, I am a Brit and my husband Canadian. We have been back 5 years after over 10 years in Canada (boy, has the UK changed...) anyhoo... We applied for ILR back in October... very straightforward I thought as the 2.5 year extension Visa only took about 6 weeks to process. However it has now passed the 14 week mark and we have heard nothing since an application to do the biometrics back in November (which we did within a week of the letter.) I have just cancelled a holiday as he has no passport and I was going to re-book but am a bit gun shy now ... Will the Visa come within the 6 month window? Has anyone had their ILM Visa granted this year? (2018). We also tried applying for the premium upgrade (sending the forms at the dot of 8am) but no luck with that either... We feel we are the only ones in this situation... any support/info would be great. Thanks
Feb 5th 2018, 4:58 pm
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Re: Canadian spouse SET (M)
You can always write to your MP and hope the intervention of your MP will speed things up in the Home Office.
Feb 5th 2018, 6:37 pm
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Re: Canadian spouse SET (M)
Presumably you applied by post?
Feb 6th 2018, 6:49 am
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Re: Canadian spouse SET (M)
Thanks for the replies. Yes, we applied by recorded mail and checked it arrived. No letter in response but we did get the biometric letter fairly quickly. Does involving my MP really help?
Feb 6th 2018, 11:57 am
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Re: Canadian spouse SET (M)
Not whilst you are still within the six month service standard. I'm afraid you either need to keep being patient or try again for the premium upgrade.
Feb 6th 2018, 12:42 pm
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Re: Canadian spouse SET (M)
Yes... re the MP that's what I thought... do you know of any way I can find out how long they are taking for a ILR visa? we did the 'email lottery' of Premium upgrade and it was just getting us down getting nowhere. I cannot find anyone who has successfully managed to get their email through..
All I can say is if anyone else is going down this route DO NOT use the postal service. If I could have a do-over we would go in person but if we ask for the application back then we loose the fee and we can't afford to throw away over £2000..
All I can say is if anyone else is going down this route DO NOT use the postal service. If I could have a do-over we would go in person but if we ask for the application back then we loose the fee and we can't afford to throw away over £2000..
Feb 6th 2018, 12:44 pm
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Re: Canadian spouse SET (M)
Yes... re the MP that's what I thought... do you know of any way I can find out how long they are taking for a ILR visa? we did the 'email lottery' of Premium upgrade and it was just getting us down getting nowhere. I cannot find anyone who has successfully managed to get their email through..
All I can say is if anyone else is going down this route DO NOT use the postal service. If I could have a do-over we would go in person but if we ask for the application back then we loose the fee and we can't afford to throw away over £2000..
All I can say is if anyone else is going down this route DO NOT use the postal service. If I could have a do-over we would go in person but if we ask for the application back then we loose the fee and we can't afford to throw away over £2000..
Feb 28th 2018, 1:44 pm
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Re: Canadian spouse SET (M)
Biometric card arrived on 26th Feb and the other documents arrived today. So Happy. It took them 85 working days to do a very straightforward application.
