MERGED: Spouse Visa Issues with Sheffield +Spouse Visa Chat Thread.
#1246
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Re: MERGED: Spouse Visa Issues with Sheffield +Spouse Visa Chat Thread.
Exactly Hamza.... tried all sorts to get a hope of light into when the applications will be processed. But no, no one can question them.... even if UKVI give useless responses. Moreover they have got custody of my wife's passport all those 37weeks and counting. I/we don't have unlimited amounts of leave from work to visit wife, why don't they understand all this! We are just cornered and helpless. Now even hope has died within me.... don't know what to do😞
#1249
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Re: MERGED: Spouse Visa Issues with Sheffield +Spouse Visa Chat Thread.
i have just received some positive news. Home office has just sent an email to pay the IHS fee for our daughter. I mentioned this to my MP in my letter so i reckon my MP,s intervention
is helping our case and is slowly chipping away and pushing them to get their finger out.
is helping our case and is slowly chipping away and pushing them to get their finger out.
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Re: Sheffield Settlement Visa +90 Day Delays
Date of Biometrics: 2nd May
Location: Mirpur, Pakistan
Working day:102 days
Location: Mirpur, Pakistan
Working day:102 days
#1251
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Re: Sheffield Settlement Visa +90 Day Delays
Matt.
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Re: MERGED: Spouse Visa Issues with Sheffield +Spouse Visa Chat Thread.
My MP phoned me this evening and asked if I had paid the IHS fee. He said he was talking to them early in the day and they were working on our papers but stopped once they realised we had not paid the IHS fee. My MP will ring the HO first thing on Monday morning to make sure they continue on our papers finish it and give us a decision. I am hoping that next week is the breakthrough we been waiting for.
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Re: MERGED: Spouse Visa Issues with Sheffield +Spouse Visa Chat Thread.
My MP phoned me this evening and asked if I had paid the IHS fee. He said he was talking to them early in the day and they were working on our papers but stopped once they realised we had not paid the IHS fee. My MP will ring the HO first thing on Monday morning to make sure they continue on our papers finish it and give us a decision. I am hoping that next week is the breakthrough we been waiting for.
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Re: MERGED: Spouse Visa Issues with Sheffield +Spouse Visa Chat Thread.
[QUOTE=Minho86;12344450]Hi buddy, when did you apply for your visa?[/QUO
Applied for the visa around 26 April, Biometrics 10 May
Applied for the visa around 26 April, Biometrics 10 May
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Re: MERGED: Spouse Visa Issues with Sheffield +Spouse Visa Chat Thread.
Yes I always think of the process as a number of stages, once the IHS has been paid the docs should be looked at immediately. I would be asking your MP if they are working on them now and if so demand an answer in the next few days. If they won't why not and you need a good reason. In your case they could be checking the authenticity of some of your papers but could easily have just put your file to one side. Don't forget its not a priority to them but it is to you!
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Re: MERGED: Spouse Visa Issues with Sheffield +Spouse Visa Chat Thread.
I got my uk spouse visa today after three months since the application. When I applied it was told me very clearly that the time for processing would be 60 working days but if was in the high season for application , could be more than that. So I just sat and wait. As I am in my country and in my own house I could do this. But I advise you always to pay priority at least for the returning of the passport because took almost twenty days from the time the visa was stamped which means I have to arrive in UK within ten days other wise my vignete will expire and I will have to pay more ...Other thing that went totally the opposite of what I read in many forums and in many advice sites: I applied based solely in my own financial status and didn't care for my British husbands financial status because he doesn't make the required amount and I do. Everytime I read something about was always implied that is only the sponsors money that matters but this is not true.
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Re: MERGED: Spouse Visa Issues with Sheffield +Spouse Visa Chat Thread.
Hello All, I've been following this thread for quite sometimes. Thank you for everyone, your posts help me a lot both in terms of information and reassuring that I am not alone. I am in the same situation.
Date of Biometrics
Location of Biometrics: Thailand (Chiangmai)
Date of email receipt from Sheffield: 1 June 2017
We are on the second escalation. Already contacted MP but I don't really know this will make any differences, hope so anyway. I believed that our case is straightforward as we meet all requirements. Also, my two sons are carrying UK passports. Due to my husband's work, we decided to move back to the UK this year. I am here on my own waiting for the visa, roughly about 83 working days now. We hear nothing. I kind of believe that our application is forgotten or lost somewhere.
I am so frustrated to hear someone mentioned that apparently we are in 120 days timeline now. I am not sure if this new timeline is true but i do hope it's not.
Latest email i got from them (13th Sep) said they "re-escalated my case and it's being seen as an urgent case"
I don't know how true it is, would like to hear some opinion. My opinion is they shouldn't have to use the word urgent if it doesn't exist. Since I paid for priority and didn't get that, they shouldn't continue to tell me urgent after all.
With this delay, this starts to get us down, especially my husband and our second son. I hope we all will get our visa and reunion with our family soon.
Date of Biometrics
Location of Biometrics: Thailand (Chiangmai)
Date of email receipt from Sheffield: 1 June 2017
We are on the second escalation. Already contacted MP but I don't really know this will make any differences, hope so anyway. I believed that our case is straightforward as we meet all requirements. Also, my two sons are carrying UK passports. Due to my husband's work, we decided to move back to the UK this year. I am here on my own waiting for the visa, roughly about 83 working days now. We hear nothing. I kind of believe that our application is forgotten or lost somewhere.
I am so frustrated to hear someone mentioned that apparently we are in 120 days timeline now. I am not sure if this new timeline is true but i do hope it's not.
Latest email i got from them (13th Sep) said they "re-escalated my case and it's being seen as an urgent case"
I don't know how true it is, would like to hear some opinion. My opinion is they shouldn't have to use the word urgent if it doesn't exist. Since I paid for priority and didn't get that, they shouldn't continue to tell me urgent after all.
With this delay, this starts to get us down, especially my husband and our second son. I hope we all will get our visa and reunion with our family soon.
She is now on working day 107. My MP is on the case. I wonder what happens if we go past 120 days. I am at the lowest point ever in my life.