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Just about to submit my final ILR application

Discussion in 'UK Visa and Immigration Help' started by ChoiAndJohn, Dec 21, 2020.

  1. ChoiAndJohn
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    ChoiAndJohn Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    Well. It's been a long time coming. From the first spouse visa application back in 2015 through the FLR and now finally, after great expense and years of misery at the hands of the government its time to submit the ILR. The only fly in the ointment is that my wife's passport expired and the embassy was shut due to covid and it can't be renewed in time so the application will have to go with an expired passport. Reading the rules I think it will be OK because the passport is primarily a proof of identity and of course there is a brp to support that, and also there are extenuating circumstances... I just don't like to submit anything thst gives the drones any excuse to reject me. :) so I will let you know how it gets on.
  2. oss
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    Good to hear from you again John, I was just looking at your account the other day and you hadn't looked in for nearly a year.

    Best of luck to both of you with this final stage.
  3. jims456
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    jims456 Active Member

    Good luck with your application:)
  4. ChoiAndJohn
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    ChoiAndJohn Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    Thanks very much. Yes I'm not very reliable recently. Had a lot of hassles with operations, covid, job and the rest. Been a rotten year really.

    Thanks. I hope this is the last one. Heartily sick of the forms and paying through the nose for the silly English tests and so on.
  5. bigmac
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    bigmac Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    these Life in the UK test questions are ludicrous: most have no relevance to life in the UK today.
  6. oss
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    Yeah for everyone, I got hospitalised back in June, spent 8 days in hospital on antibiotics and saline drips and at the end was operated on got out the following day but thank god it happened in June while Covid was heavily suppressed.

    I'm very lucky in that I work from home, I know I have been extremely privileged, only cost to me was no inflation wage rise this year and no end of year bonus.
  7. ChoiAndJohn
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    So.. Both my wife and 19 year old step-daughter passed the ludicrous 'life in the UK' test and got their IELTS English test results at level B1 for their SET(M) ILR application. My younger step-daughter is exempt due to age from that requirement.
    The application has been submitted and a bunch of documents uploaded. They have their biometrics appointments tomorrow which ended up costing another 200 quid. Very annoying.

    I'm just checking the original documentation that we will take with us. I've decided to take all the originals that I scanned (such as birth certificates, some letters, English Test Certificates and so on) but I won't re-print any stuff (like bank statements or plusNet bills) that I already received purely electronically and never had a paper copy of. It seems a bit stupid to print out documents that you received electronically onto paper just to take with you.

    Naturally of course all the original passports and BRPS will be taken along. I'm so tired of all this. This need to keep and mess with piles of documentation and jump through hoops driving to remove offices to do silly tests and pay extortionate fees really gets on my nerves.

    Once it's granted - and hopefully it will be - I'll write a monster post outlining documentatation lists that I used for my wife and 2 step-daughters in the ILR process as well.
  8. bigmac
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    i'm glad for you they got the LITUK tests out of the way--and--yes many of the questions are utterly ludicrous and have no bearing on modern life in the UK.
    i couldnt get 75% every time..and i doubt my wife will pass first time. One good thing--there is a Govuk approved test center in portsmouth--and she booked for the 6th march.
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    Mattecube face the sunshine so shadows fall behind you Trusted Member

    The annoying bit is it can take upto 6 months to get a decision and in that time the BRPcards are expired which means no foreign holidays are able to be booked till you have the new card. Confident and optimistic foreign travel will be allowed in some form by the summer.
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    Mattecube face the sunshine so shadows fall behind you Trusted Member

    we uploaded 2 applicants mother and daughter
    Birth certificates (Husband (sponsor) Wife Daughter
    Divorce papers (husband)
    Death certificate (wifes first husband and biological father of daughter)
    Marriage certificate
    Passports Biometric page of Husband sponsor and British citizen evidence
    Passport(s) of Mother and daughter (all pages including blanks)scanned covering period of time since arriving into UK
    BRPcards
    Wage slips
    Bank statements
    Previous years p60
    House deeds(showing I own the property outright)
    Council tax statement
    Letter from sponsors employer
    Various letters addressed to sponsor, mother and daughter covering last 2 years demonstrating daughter lives with us
    English (b1)and life in the UK test certificates for mother and daughter
    Think thats it!!
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  11. bigmac
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    and surely most of that info they already have ?
  12. Mattecube
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    Mattecube face the sunshine so shadows fall behind you Trusted Member

    Yes only real changes are wage slips and bank statements and life in the UK results
  13. bigmac
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    so did your application tell you what docs to submit ?
  14. Mattecube
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    Mattecube face the sunshine so shadows fall behind you Trusted Member

    Yes at the end we just added p60 and the volume of letters over 2 years need to ensure that we demonstrated the daughter wasnt leading an independent life.
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  15. bigmac
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    makes you wonder why they want all those docs again when they know theve seen them already.
    are you scanning and submitting them yourself or using sopra steria?
  16. Mattecube
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    Mattecube face the sunshine so shadows fall behind you Trusted Member

    We submitted ourselves, we had all of it scanned from previous applications except life in UK certificates so they got scanned and uploaded some recent letters got scanned and uploaded and added to previous ones.
    Pay slips and statements were downloaded onto pc then uploaded to the application no hard copies took.

    Submitted docs in chronological sequence for ease ie born married divorced married for me, wife born widowed married etc
  17. ChoiAndJohn
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    You're right, it does make you wonder why they want it all again. But then you realize it's the government, and the rules are drafted by small minded pen pushers who haven't had an original thought in their entire lives. :). I think I'm growing more and more anti government as i grow older.. Hmm.
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  18. Macchiato
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    I'm certain it's all intentionally over-complicated to lower the immigration numbers. The most passive-aggressive method to achieve a politcal target that sadly, seems to have become an attractive attribute to any party manifesto nowadays :(

    Although once you get your Wife's ILR, Do crack open the finest whisky you have ;)
  19. ChoiAndJohn
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    Yeah. I heard that. Given my finest right now is 'Whyte & Mackay' maybe I'll have to treat myself to a bottle of Laphroaig which happens to be one of my favourites. :)
    Oh. Actually scratch that. I'm going to buy a bottle of Inchmurrin which I haven't tasted for years.
  20. oss
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    My old boss Alistair McLuckie's favourite tipples were Laphroaig and Talisker he was the head photographer in the South of Scotland Electricity Board, he was well travelled in Scotland having done weddings all over the Hebrides and the rest of the country, Me I've never been into spirits of any kind however :)

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