MERGED: Spouse Visa Issues with Sheffield +Spouse Visa Chat Thread.
#241
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re: MERGED: Spouse Visa Issues with Sheffield +Spouse Visa Chat Thread.
Bunch of wonkers!! The least they could do is issue a statement stating the realistic estimated processing times.
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re: MERGED: Spouse Visa Issues with Sheffield +Spouse Visa Chat Thread.
I don't want to dampen anyone's hopes, and of course as they say every application is different but today marks 16 weeks (77 working days) since our PRIORITY applications were received by Sheffield on 10th April (our full details are in post 34 back on page 3)
We sent another email last week, this time they replied asking us to send them the applicants passport numbers, What? you want us to send you the numbers of the passports you have been holding in Sheffield for almost 4 months. You couldn't make this stuff up could you?.
Anyway we did as requested and finally got a reply "Your enquiry has been referred to the relevant department for consideration." We hope this mean that our file has at last been escalated.
We sent another email last week, this time they replied asking us to send them the applicants passport numbers, What? you want us to send you the numbers of the passports you have been holding in Sheffield for almost 4 months. You couldn't make this stuff up could you?.
Anyway we did as requested and finally got a reply "Your enquiry has been referred to the relevant department for consideration." We hope this mean that our file has at last been escalated.
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I don't want to dampen anyone's hopes, and of course as they say every application is different but today marks 16 weeks (77 working days) since our PRIORITY applications were received by Sheffield on 10th April (our full details are in post 34 back on page 3)
We sent another email last week, this time they replied asking us to send them the applicants passport numbers, What? you want us to send you the numbers of the passports you have been holding in Sheffield for almost 4 months. You couldn't make this stuff up could you?.
Anyway we did as requested and finally got a reply "Your enquiry has been referred to the relevant department for consideration." We hope this mean that our file has at last been escalated.
We sent another email last week, this time they replied asking us to send them the applicants passport numbers, What? you want us to send you the numbers of the passports you have been holding in Sheffield for almost 4 months. You couldn't make this stuff up could you?.
Anyway we did as requested and finally got a reply "Your enquiry has been referred to the relevant department for consideration." We hope this mean that our file has at last been escalated.
#244
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I called again today for an update, I was informed it was escalated on the 21st July and is now with the Home Office. Told not to bother calling again as they are out of the loop now (ridiculous) in the next sentence told also that I can call on the 11th August for an update namely because this is 15 working days since escalation was started (also ridiculous).
It would be 60 working days on the 10th August.
It would be 60 working days on the 10th August.
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I called again today for an update, I was informed it was escalated on the 21st July and is now with the Home Office. Told not to bother calling again as they are out of the loop now (ridiculous) in the next sentence told also that I can call on the 11th August for an update namely because this is 15 working days since escalation was started (also ridiculous).
It would be 60 working days on the 10th August.
It would be 60 working days on the 10th August.
#246
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I find it hard to breathe every time I read these posts. I was looking forward to this week because some day this week, (still get confused what day I should start counting) will be our 60 working days, but the more I read the more I loose hope. Our lawyer sent another email on Tuesday or Wednesday last week, still no reply. It seems to be getting worse and worse. We have emailed many times previously and although it was not much help, at least they replied! Now it seems more and more people are getting no responses. Inhumane treatment sums it up really. Not only our our hearts completely broken and most of us turned crazy and they don't even have the f***ing decency to say "sorry, there are delays at the moment but we haven't forgotten about you, it's probably going to take ..... amount of time" they just hide behind "your case wasn't straight forward" or "we needed more info (that we never asked you for)"
So tired of it all now and so so so annoyed that I fell for the '15 working days'
Can't wait for this nightmare to be over!!
So tired of it all now and so so so annoyed that I fell for the '15 working days'
Can't wait for this nightmare to be over!!
#247
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re: MERGED: Spouse Visa Issues with Sheffield +Spouse Visa Chat Thread.
Sheffield are asking us for a fresh set of supporting documents for our dependent child aged
17. As she is under 18 surely you only send one set of supporting documents, which include
the childs docs like birth certificate etc. This is worrying me so please any of you with kids under 18 did you send full supporting documents for each of them. a quick reply would ease
my stress!!!
17. As she is under 18 surely you only send one set of supporting documents, which include
the childs docs like birth certificate etc. This is worrying me so please any of you with kids under 18 did you send full supporting documents for each of them. a quick reply would ease
my stress!!!
#248
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Still waiting for first half of May. Admittedly we didn't bother with the priority service. "Why bother" we thought. We had almost 3 months before we needed to have the visa and the website stated 30 days for 95% of cases. Ours is about as straight forward as it gets and we tick all the boxes so why bother indeed. Now coming up to 12 weeks tomorrow and still no sign of the Visa.
Bunch of wonkers!! The least they could do is issue a statement stating the realistic estimated processing times.
Bunch of wonkers!! The least they could do is issue a statement stating the realistic estimated processing times.
"If you have a concern about the quality or use of UK official statistics please email [email protected]. All concerns will be investigated and responded to. Our public responses to such concerns are available on our correspondence page."
With my application having been decided last week, my visa saga is almost (hopefully) over. Because the process has been so awful due to the lack of information, I fully intend to follow up with my complaints. I just hope that more people are doing the same.
#249
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re: MERGED: Spouse Visa Issues with Sheffield +Spouse Visa Chat Thread.
Sheffield are asking us for a fresh set of supporting documents for our dependent child aged
17. As she is under 18 surely you only send one set of supporting documents, which include
the childs docs like birth certificate etc. This is worrying me so please any of you with kids under 18 did you send full supporting documents for each of them. a quick reply would ease
my stress!!!
17. As she is under 18 surely you only send one set of supporting documents, which include
the childs docs like birth certificate etc. This is worrying me so please any of you with kids under 18 did you send full supporting documents for each of them. a quick reply would ease
my stress!!!
Our current status is husband's case decided , but both children received non straightforward email and asked us to pay IHS due to system bug which we paid and acknowledged yesterday. Sheffield didn't ask further doc so far.
#250
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re: MERGED: Spouse Visa Issues with Sheffield +Spouse Visa Chat Thread.
As we applied in Hong Kong via VFS, they scanned two independent children applications separately, but wrote remarks on the page to refer to my husband's application like financial requirements etc.
Our current status is husband's case decided , but both children received non straightforward email and asked us to pay IHS due to system bug which we paid and acknowledged yesterday. Sheffield didn't ask further doc so far.
Our current status is husband's case decided , but both children received non straightforward email and asked us to pay IHS due to system bug which we paid and acknowledged yesterday. Sheffield didn't ask further doc so far.
#251
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re: MERGED: Spouse Visa Issues with Sheffield +Spouse Visa Chat Thread.
I just received this!!! Exactly 60 working days after biometrics taken and docs scanned
UK Visas & Immigration has now assessed your UK visa application and made a decision. Your documents and
the decision will be sent back to either the UK Visa Application Centre where you applied, where we will
contact you by email over the next few days to collect them, or if you are using the courier return service, will
be sent directly back to the address you provided.
Please note that TLScontact does not know the outcome of the assessment and has played no role in the
decision-making process.
Kind regards,
TLScontact
UK Visas & Immigration has now assessed your UK visa application and made a decision. Your documents and
the decision will be sent back to either the UK Visa Application Centre where you applied, where we will
contact you by email over the next few days to collect them, or if you are using the courier return service, will
be sent directly back to the address you provided.
Please note that TLScontact does not know the outcome of the assessment and has played no role in the
decision-making process.
Kind regards,
TLScontact
#252
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re: MERGED: Spouse Visa Issues with Sheffield +Spouse Visa Chat Thread.
I just received this!!! Exactly 60 working days after biometrics taken and docs scanned
UK Visas & Immigration has now assessed your UK visa application and made a decision. Your documents and
the decision will be sent back to either the UK Visa Application Centre where you applied, where we will
contact you by email over the next few days to collect them, or if you are using the courier return service, will
be sent directly back to the address you provided.
Please note that TLScontact does not know the outcome of the assessment and has played no role in the
decision-making process.
Kind regards,
TLScontact
UK Visas & Immigration has now assessed your UK visa application and made a decision. Your documents and
the decision will be sent back to either the UK Visa Application Centre where you applied, where we will
contact you by email over the next few days to collect them, or if you are using the courier return service, will
be sent directly back to the address you provided.
Please note that TLScontact does not know the outcome of the assessment and has played no role in the
decision-making process.
Kind regards,
TLScontact
#253
re: MERGED: Spouse Visa Issues with Sheffield +Spouse Visa Chat Thread.
I just received this!!! Exactly 60 working days after biometrics taken and docs scanned
UK Visas & Immigration has now assessed your UK visa application and made a decision. Your documents and
the decision will be sent back to either the UK Visa Application Centre where you applied, where we will
contact you by email over the next few days to collect them, or if you are using the courier return service, will
be sent directly back to the address you provided.
Please note that TLScontact does not know the outcome of the assessment and has played no role in the
decision-making process.
Kind regards,
TLScontact
UK Visas & Immigration has now assessed your UK visa application and made a decision. Your documents and
the decision will be sent back to either the UK Visa Application Centre where you applied, where we will
contact you by email over the next few days to collect them, or if you are using the courier return service, will
be sent directly back to the address you provided.
Please note that TLScontact does not know the outcome of the assessment and has played no role in the
decision-making process.
Kind regards,
TLScontact
#254
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re: MERGED: Spouse Visa Issues with Sheffield +Spouse Visa Chat Thread.
I am in the process of applying for my husbands spouse visa from USA to UK.
Under spouse details it asks this:
will your spouse partner be traveling with you? answer is YES
then asks:
Current passport #. Is that the sponsor or the applicant?????
Under spouse details it asks this:
will your spouse partner be traveling with you? answer is YES
then asks:
Current passport #. Is that the sponsor or the applicant?????
#255
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re: MERGED: Spouse Visa Issues with Sheffield +Spouse Visa Chat Thread.
If you are both travelling you will need to give passport number for yourself. Are you in the States now?