The sweet smell of success.

[reddragdiva]

The letter just arrived.

redcountess HAS INDEFINITE LEAVE TO REMAIN!

[Poll #573889]

Comments

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Yay!!

[ravenevermore.livejournal.com]

Coolness.
We're currently playing the waiting game on the same VISA type things...
How long did it take you guys?

[vatine]

It took us (vatine as sponsor and urocyon_c as Visa-needer) about 10 months (initial submission late September 2004, final letter with everything 2005-07-07; we did have some added complications, in that I am not a UK citizen).

[ravenevermore.livejournal.com]

O-kay...
That's a hell of a lot longer than they indicated to us...

Might be because you weren't a UK citizen. We were told we might have ours back by november. Bugger.

[reddragdiva]

Ours only took a few weeks, though it felt longer — though I'm not a British citizen either (right of abode because my mother's English).

[ravenevermore.livejournal.com]

The form was craptacular, and we had to fill it out twice. because the forms changed for applications sent from 15th september onwards.

Oy.

I just want this crap to be done and come back so we can go to the US for thanksgiving.

[adrasteah.livejournal.com]

My indefinite leave to remain took around 8/9 months IIRC

[reddragdiva]

I'm getting the impression ours was remarkably quick.

[redcountess]

In fact, just 26 days! But it does say on the IND website that they intend straight forward applications to have a three week turnaround.

[ravenevermore.livejournal.com]

well ours should be straight forward. Married, settled for 2 years, plenty of supporting documentation including joint back account, both employed.

*fingers crossed*

[reddragdiva]

Sounds ideal. You should be fine :-)

[vatine]

"We strive to process everything within 6 months" is the only promise I'ev ever seen from them. part of our problem was that they suddenly decided they'd asked us for more supportive documentation, but we never saw said request and suddenly had a refusal in the mailbox. they then re-did the whole application From Scratch (and atht took, erm, about 3 weeks).

[ravenevermore.livejournal.com]

hopefully the plethora of documentation they got off us should be enough.
*frets and worries*

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

Good lord. It didn't take me much time at all- Maybe a month? (That was for indefinite leave to remain based on marriage. I got the one-year leave to remain based on marriage same-day because I went in to the home office and sat around for hours to see some clerk.) My previous visa before that (where I sent something in, rather than point-of-entry which my student visa was) was some kind of volunteer thing, and took maybe 6 weeks?

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

My UK Ancestry-based Indefinite Leave only took a few weeks.

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

Can we keep Liz and send you back? Trade you in for a different model? *g*

Congratulations, Liz!

[phelyan.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[mangosteen]

Mazel tov!

[ex-unagothae16.livejournal.com]

FUCKIN' WOOT!!! ROCK ON!!!

[jhaelan.livejournal.com]

Congratulations :)

[necialma.livejournal.com]

WOOT!!!

That is excellent news :))

[narnee.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! In one year's time, she'll be eligible to apply for naturalisation -- and once she has that, there will be no more to do, ever.

You know, reading the comments, I can't remember how long it took me to get my ILR and I never thought I'd forget. I have a step-by-step timeline for my naturalisation, but not one for my indefinite leave to remain. Hmm.

[reddragdiva]

By the way — have you still got the files for overthepond.info? I see the site's not there any more. If you need a host for it, just chuck me the files, I'll put it up on wefixtech.co.uk (under the old domain name).

[kest]

Although there are lots of capital letters in your statement, there are hardly any capital letters in your poll answers. This is a deficiency.

[strang-er.livejournal.com]

Does that make you both Pommy bastards now? Sounds a bit unAustralian to me. And right after the Ashes! Oh god, the Ashes!

[redcountess]

No, neither of us are naturalised :-)

When Diva says he's British by paperwork, he means that they can't kick him out.