Hi All We are uploading the evidence for my Wife's ILR application... It asks for her Philippines Passport (current) - but doesn't specify whether they require just the Biometrics (photo) page or EVERY page, including blanks! The UKVCAS website mentions "Access UK Document Checklist", but a search of the 'gov.uk' site returns no obvious results...! What have others done or what do you think is required? TIA
As you must not of spent 180 days outside the UK in a 12 month period prior to ILR application I suggest that you scan all pages to evidence this(we did)
Thanks, @Mattecube - That makes sense... One other uncertainty that has occurred to me - although it is not asked for, I read elsewhere that if the Applicant first entered the UK on a different (e.g. now Expired) Passport, you should provide that as well? Again, we could just provide the Biometrics page AND the original 'UK entry stamp' page of the expired passport, or EVERY page???
We uploaded just the biometric page. Still waiting on the decision email to come through but I'm not especially concerned by this.
How long have you been waiting, so far? Not that we would have used it, but we weren't offered Super-/Priority service options, for the ILR!
Biometrics done in Manchester on 10th Feb. Just a simple take photo and fingerprints job. Didn't do purchase any of the checking options. Docs had been uploaded a week or so before this. I remember that I was offered Priority but didn't take them up on this. Just a case of sitting tight and waiting for the deportation email to come through! Hopefully, assuming the Home Office has been able to verify Mrs R's stay in the UK over the past year, the passport pages won't matter. Her application should be pretty straightforward. Obviously won't do you any harm to upload the full shebang, but I just thought that was too excessive at the time. Even with the bunch of crazies currently running the Home Office at this moment in time, it would seem extreme even by their standards to send her packing back to Tarlac for not uploading 20 odd blank passport pages! I also definitely did not upload blank passport pages on the 2 previous FLR applications.
Slight correction on the rules I interpreted them slightly wrong It is “ you must not of spent more than 180 days in any 12 month period prior to application so Depends on the issue date I guess if the new passport is dated valid from 12 months or more prior to application date then just the new passport will do! as I say they are looking at or for that the applicant has spent less than 180 days outside the UK in any 12 months prior to application.
Yes you would think that the UKBA would have the facility to link to UK immigration departures and arrivals to determine length of time any applicant has been out of the UK, maybe that’s to easy to get 2 departments talking to each other!! Maybe providing the scanned paper trail helps oil the decision wheels quicker, who knows!
And this afternoon whilst walking over to TK Maxx in the Arndale Centre, the email landed to confirm Mrs R's ILR. Just short of 3 months for the Home Office to process on a bog standard no priority application. BRP to follow in the next week or so.
Congrats... We are waiting for the email from UKVI to confirm what we already (think we) know - we used the wrong form for the ILR application! As of today, it's exactly 1 calendar month since it was submitted (Biometrics done on April 18)...
Please keep us informed as you go along with the BRP as you know the cards have been issued valid till 31.12 2024 and at this point or maybe before the immigration status will be attached to the applicants NI number. Be interested in the process you go through, there have been a couple of posts on the subject but yours is current and live! Congratulations by the way
Will have to see what happens as we go along. I don't remember the NI number being mentioned at all during the application (though HO should presumably be able to match things up) and the NI number isn't a compulsory requirement for migrants (I think?). We are due to travel to the Philippines on Oct 31 with me coming back in November, and Mrs R on Jan 31st so at the moment we are just going on blind faith that things will work at the other end in NAIA! Other than my food and washing, Mrs R doesn't have anything urgent to come back to such as work or appointments so if the whole thing is a clusterf##k, it won't affect us too much.
