I'm not sure any application after yours have received a response. I believe you will hear from them next week at the latest.

Mchikwaira:
I applied on the 17th I've noticed people that applied a day after me and now several days after me ( nov 25) have gotten responses. Has this happened to anyone on this forum? I'm just not sure what to think.

I follow another forum too. A lady who applied in the 25th got a response but I guess you're right will wait.

TunzAntman:
I'm not sure any application after yours have received a response. I believe you will hear from them next week at the latest.

Pmaakino:


Thanks for this Oladunni4real. And congratulations. Do you have any idea why the visa isn't effective until Feb 7? Is that what they normally do?

Look at the February 7 positively. Tickets would be slightly cheaper. Spend the time you have distributing your assets, liabilities and saying your goodbye's........

justwise:


Oh good! positive development at least. Keep us updated

Hey guys,
I hope you all doing fine,today I got this:
UK Visas & Immigration has now assessed your UK visa application and made a decision. Your documents and

the decision will be sent back to either the UK Visa Application Centre where you applied, where we will

contact you by email over the next few days to collect them, or if you are using the courier return service, will

be sent directly back to the address you provided.

Please note that TLScontact does not know the outcome of the assessment and has played no role in the

decision-making process.

Kind regards,

TLScontact
UK VIsas & Immigration

Usually it takes 1 to two days for the passport to reach Beirut.i hope anyone have a clue if these emails can be detect the outcome.
Best regards,
Thanks

justwise:
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The child will not affect your application but you still need to include his name but make it clear that you are not traveling with the child.

Bringing the child later will not be easy unless you do it after getting your British citizenship or your hubby adopting that child which will not be easy though.

Justwise and lexusg430,

Thank you so much for your response. He is considering adopting him but we have been told that it's very difficult in nigeria. He then says he will do it in UK. The boy is a USA citizen.



Any advice?

Still haven't received decision made email but I inquired and it says status of application is decision made. So just waiting for some form of information.

Ooh congratulations in advance! I applied a few days after you.

Mchikwaira:
Still haven't received decision made email but I inquired and it says status of application is decision made. So just waiting for some form of information.

Hello all. I collected my passport today and I got the visa! Thank God and thank you for all your advice, support and humour. It made the wait so much easier to bear. I am overwhelmed because finally, after so many months of uncertainty, we can settle down and plan our lives. God bless you fellow nairalanders.

Thanks will update accordingly just to give you an idea I guess.

TunzAntman:
Ooh congratulations in advance! I applied a few days after you.

Congrats!

Pmaakino:
Hello all. I collected my passport today and I got the visa! Thank God and thank you for all your advice, support and humour. It made the wait so much easier to bear. I am overwhelmed because finally, after so many months of uncertainty, we can settle down and plan our lives. God bless you fellow nairalanders.

Kassemkhalifeh9:

Hey guys,
I hope you all doing fine,today I got this:
UK Visas & Immigration has now assessed your UK visa application and made a decision. Your documents and

the decision will be sent back to either the UK Visa Application Centre where you applied, where we will

contact you by email over the next few days to collect them, or if you are using the courier return service, will

be sent directly back to the address you provided.

Please note that TLScontact does not know the outcome of the assessment and has played no role in the

decision-making process.

Kind regards,

TLScontact
UK VIsas & Immigration

Usually it takes 1 to two days for the passport to reach Beirut.i hope anyone have a clue if these emails can be detect the outcome.
Best regards,
Thanks

Sadly, no, you cannot detect anything from the emails. You will have to wait until you're called to pick up. It won't be long at all. From what I've seen, TLS Lagos often sends both emails on the same day. In fact when I received the email you copied above, at about 230pm today, I went straight to TLS without waiting for the collection email. And indeed my passport was there. I got the collection email at close to 4pm, when I was already at home with the passport and visa. You will soon have yours, don't worry.

Mchikwaira:
Congrats!

Thank you Mchikwaira

Pmaakino:
Hello all. I collected my passport today and I got the visa! Thank God and thank you for all your advice, support and humour. It made the wait so much easier to bear. I am overwhelmed because finally, after so many months of uncertainty, we can settle down and plan our lives. God bless you fellow nairalanders.

Congratulations..............
NB: Lessons to NOTE - You paid attention to all the nitty gritty details + you eventually submitted a knock - out repackaged package + you knocked them out with weight of evidence + and finally a successful application.

Although, you were attempting to over - stretch your neck towards the end (understandably so).......... Now the UK hustle starts and your husband can eventually start bonding with his kids.......

Your tithe payment is 50% of 1st salary earned in £ (with exchange rate of £1 - N605 ( the ministry is growing).....

Congratulations!!! Very happy for you, it's not nice for a father to be apart. Get on that flight asap

Pmaakino:
Hello all. I collected my passport today and I got the visa! Thank God and thank you for all your advice, support and humour. It made the wait so much easier to bear. I am overwhelmed because finally, after so many months of uncertainty, we can settle down and plan our lives. God bless you fellow nairalanders.

Lexusgs430:


Congratulations..............
NB: Lessons to NOTE - You paid attention to all the nitty gritty details + you eventually submitted a knock - out repackaged package + you knocked them out with weight of evidence + and finally a successful application.

Although, you were attempting to over - stretch your neck towards the end (understandably so).......... Now the UK hustle starts and your husband can eventually start bonding with his kids.......

Your tithe payment is 50% of 1st salary earned in £ (with exchange rate of £1 - N605 ( the ministry is growing).....

God bless you richly for your commitment to helping people and for your adeptness at reassuring, redirecting and encouraging. 50% ke? I will set up a direct debit for 70% as soon as I get there.

TunzAntman:
Congratulations!!! Very happy for you, it's not nice for a father to be apart. Get on that flight asap

Thank you!! I sure will.

Pmaakino:


God bless you richly for your commitment to helping people and for your adeptness at reassuring, redirecting and encouraging. 50% ke? I will set up a direct debit for 70% as soon as I get there.

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

I smell a big fat lie. Direct Debit into our skye, GTB, Union bank accounts ? If only you said standing order, i just might have believed you .........

Pmaakino:


Sadly, no, you cannot detect anything from the emails. You will have to wait until you're called to pick up. It won't be long at all. From what I've seen, TLS Lagos often sends both emails on the same day. In fact when I received the email you copied above, at about 230pm today, I went straight to TLS without waiting for the collection email. And indeed my passport was there. I got the collection email at close to 4pm, when I was already at home with the passport and visa. You will soon have yours, don't worry.

Thanks for the reply.
I was thinking to do this too,anyways I will go tomorrow and check as I didn't receive anything today.
I will keep you guys updated with the outcome.
Cheers

MY VISA APPLICATION TIMELINE:
Country applying from: VI, Nigeria
Visa Processing Office Location: Sheffield, UK
Type of visa applied for: Settlement - Wife (Non-Priority)
28th of Nov. 2016: Online Application done
30th Nov. 2016 - Bio metrics Taken & Email Confirmation of application from UKBA
30th of Nov 2016 - Sent Supporting documents VIA DHL to Sheffield (Tracked it on my own; got there the next day)
30th Jan 2017- (11.30am) Official Email from UKVI that decision has been made.
30th Jan.2017 (3.59pm) TSL sent mail to come collect passport and other supporting documents.
31th Jan. 2017- Collected my documents and passport with visa on it.

Visa is effective from 24th Jan 2017.

ADVICE:

Make sure you put all relevant documents asked according to GOV.UK. More than less documents is always a good idea. Don't hesitate to provide as much as you can.

If you can afford priority by all means please do so, the wait is nerve recking

God is on the throne always. Thankful for this forum. It eased my anxiety a lot

Well done to all the people that take their time to provide information

God bless you all

iken09:
MY VISA APPLICATION TIMELINE:
Country applying from: VI, Nigeria
Visa Processing Office Location: Sheffield, UK
Type of visa applied for: Settlement - Wife (Non-Priority)
28th of Nov. 2016: Online Application done
30th Nov. 2016 - Bio metrics Taken & Email Confirmation of application from UKBA
30th of Nov 2016 - Sent Supporting documents VIA DHL to Sheffield (Tracked it on my own; got there the next day)
30th Jan 2017- (11.30am) Official Email from UKVI that decision has been made.
30th Jan.2017 (3.59pm) TSL sent mail to come collect passport and other supporting documents.
31th Jan. 2017- Collected my documents and passport with visa on it.

Visa is effective from 24th Jan 2017.

ADVICE:

Make sure you put all relevant documents asked according to GOV.UK. More than less documents is always a good idea. Don't hesitate to provide as much as you can.

If you can afford priority by all means please do so, the wait is nerve recking

God is on the throne always. Thankful for this forum. It eased my anxiety a lot

Well done to all the people that take their time to provide information

God bless you all

Congratulations.......... You dey observe silently?

You never posted a question...... You probably just read, jotted and observed..........

Hi guys the better half of Darcy16 arrived in the cold United Kingdom on Sunday evening. Been great and surreal having my wife around.

Congratulations to those that have been successful recently. I have been coming online and reading the chat but could not reply. I saw the couple that got called early by TLS, I had a feeling straight away that it was a rejection. Please reapply using priority and fully load your application. Put even more photos and more call logs. One can never put too much information. Yes if you appeal it will get overturned but the wait is hard. I always said that if we get a rejection I would reapply using priority.

I still have not received any form of communication at all

Have you received anything?

TunzAntman:
I'm not sure any application after yours have received a response. I believe you will hear from them next week at the latest.

Darcy16:
Hi guys the better half of Darcy16 arrived in the cold United Kingdom on Sunday evening. Been great and surreal having my wife around.

Congratulations to those that have been successful recently. I have been coming online and reading the chat but could not reply. I saw the couple that got called early by TLS, I had a feeling straight away that it was a rejection. Please reapply using priority and fully load your application. Put even more photos and more call logs. One can never put too much information. Yes if you appeal it will get overturned but the wait is hard. I always said that if we get a rejection I would reapply using priority.

Thanks @darcy16 I missed out on that communication evidence because I felt since I was in uk for a few months prior to the application date was ok...it was after I did my biometric that I came across nairaland..it's only a setback as one Nairalander said..will be reapplying next week with lots of communication evidence and more pictures and of cos priority this time...can't deal with the long wait over again.....

Please house... Any advice will be welcome as this wait is killing me because on UK immigration website m they wrote there that EEA Family Permit will take 15working days and I have submitted this application since the 13th of December and I received a message d following week that my application is not straight forward and since then we've not heard from them again. We have tried mailing them but no response. Please can anyone advise or is the Brexit thingy affecting EEA FP already?

Brexit isn't affecting your application because it hasn't happened yet. The wait can Ben agonizing but technically you're still within the processing times. So all you can do is keep cal and wait it out.
"We have service level standards for processing UK visa applications. We
will process 90% of non-settlement applications within 3 weeks, 98% within
6 weeks and 100% within 12 weeks of the application (biometric taken) date;
and 95% of settlement applications within 12 weeks of the biometric taken
date and 100% within 24 weeks of the application (biometric taken) date.
Please note that we define 1 week as 5 working days."

Captgb:
Please house... Any advice will be welcome as this wait is killing me because on UK immigration website m they wrote there that EEA Family Permit will take 15working days and I have submitted this application since the 13th of December and I received a message d following week that my application is not straight forward and since then we've not heard from them again. We have tried mailing them but no response. Please can anyone advise or is the Brexit thingy affecting EEA FP already?

Thanks so much TunzAntman.. I will keep my nerves and look out for their update

justwise:


Oh good! positive development at least. Keep us updated

hey guys,
I got it,sorry couldn't update you earlier I had it yesterday.
Thank you everyone for the help and support and I heist good luck for everyone.me and my wife are so excited and I hope everyone is this situation will feel the same joy.
Regards,
Thanks

Kassemkhalifeh9:
hey guys,
I got it,sorry couldn't update you earlier I had it yesterday.
Thank you everyone for the help and support and I heist good luck for everyone.me and my wife are so excited and I hope everyone is this situation will feel the same joy.
Regards,
Thanks

Congratulations. I'm so glad we are all getting positive outcomes,all thanks to God and to the gurus.
Lexusgs430 I'm still loyal o.

Benz101:

Congratulations. I'm so glad we are all getting positive outcomes,all thanks to God and to the gurus.
Lexusgs430 I'm still loyal o.

All protocols observed, Oga Mi

Good afternoon good people. had to tell hubby to come and see where i am getting info from because he was initially biased that im scaring myself with the long list i am coming up with. congrats to all the successful applicants, i tap into it big time. 2000quid isnt something to not get right.

Please save a soul....I and kids back here since hubby relocated in October. He is British. Kids have also been given their British Passports in december. Hubby has a temp job with NHS which meets the requirement but he just started.

- Can we use his temporary job payslips when its time to apply or its got to be a permanent job
- How many months of payslips do we have to send with our application minimum, so atleast i can start counting down, that is if temporary job is allowed?
hubby did alot to settle fo rthis job as its away from his area of specialization but he wants to know if it will work for my application and if not so he can begin the search afresh.... pls advise.

We do not do phone calls. We do whatsapp calls and zillion whatsapp messages. we were both here in Nigeria and married with two kids for 5years before he relocated so our kids can go enjoy a better education as it is now becoming a big deal to afford good education here.

- will whatsapp calls be ok? if yes, how do we get the call log??
- i have been saving our chats as doc from month to month.... printing those out will that be fine? we chat alot and chat is very very long, atleast so far.

How much is priority application?

Im just trying to gather my facts right little by little, please help a sister, ladies and gentlemen. thank you in advance

@lexusgs430 @benz101 @kassemkhalifeh9 @justwise @Darcy16 @iken09 @pmaakino