poliphilus

Date of Biometrics: 27 April
Location of Biometrics: Vancouver, Canada
Date of email receipt from Sheffield: 1 May
Location Constituency of your sponsors MP: Cambridge
Not-straightforward notice: 19 July
Not-straightforward request: Fiancée's divorce papers (not indicated as a requirement in the application guidelines)

mattthefat

Almost on queue, there was a question in the House of Commons regarding the delays on spouse and fiancé visas. I'm considering getting my wife to write to the honourable member who raised the question (Mike Gapes) to thank him for raising this question and direct him to this forum to show the depth of the problems these processing delays are causing.

Is there support for this approach?

Here's the question raised in Parliament on Monday: https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans...isas#g10258.r0

Matt.

mattthefat

Date of Biometrics: 24 April (submitted priority)

Location of Biometrics: Canberra Australia

Date of email receipt from Sheffield: 24 April

Location Constituency of your sponsors MP: Ealing Southall

PaManjang

Which visas do they not make money on?
This nasty Tory government is just exploiting people at their most vulnerable by charging stupid money and offering them worst service.

mattthefat

Essentially, the government wants the immigration system to be self funding. So our visa fees cross subsidise border security and immigration control.

mystikal2k2a

Hi

I'm glad an MP has raised this very direct question. I was going to ask my local MP to ask the very same question.

I will contact Mike Gapes and share my experience about UKVI.

JimmyBlue76

Notice that even though the report referred to in the answer was produced in August 2017 it only covers Q1 2017 for settlement visas, yet it includes Q2 for refugee and humanitarian applications. Then check the notes in the report referred to and you will see why most of us experiencing delays were told we have a 'non straightforward' case - it's because non-straightforward cases are exempt from the service standards:

I'd love to know why our case was considered non-straightforward: I have somewhere for us to live, our children have UK passports, my salary is well above the required financial limit and we are lucky enough to have savings above the limit, neither of us have a criminal record, my wife is from the USA - what's not straight forward?

JimmyBlue76

I had a brief post pointing out how the HO is using the system to fiddle the figures slightly in their report of August 2017, but it's awaiting moderation for some reason. Essentially, they are declaring us all to be non-straightforward cases because that exempts them from the 12 week service standard.

mystikal2k2a

Hi

I emailed Amelia Hill this morning and received an out of office email to.

I will recommend anyone planning to send the email to her, to send it after the 3rd of October.

I will resend my email to her on the 3rd of October so it is at the top of her inbox.

mystikal2k2a

That is shocking!

I feel for you.

It sounds unusual to for it to go on this long.

b813

Hi there - you had any luck with your visa?

PaulandJoy

Date if biometrics: 8th May
Place of biometrics: Bangkok
Documents received: 9th May
Non straightforward @ 60 days
Escalated via MP @ 60 days
Told documents with manager @ 70 days
Letter from UKVI @ 81 days stating there are many people waiting besides me and applications are processed on a first come, first served basis (BS!!)
Have spoke to my MP’s PA on about 15 occasions now, they are getting fobbed off too
Constituency: Havering

j4v3d

Where have you got that stat from? From applicants timelines?

PinkDia

Great idea!

garyede

Yes that's right