My wife recently applied general UK visitor's visa. We purchased priority service.
We mailed out my application package to UK visa decision center in New York on Sep 05 Fri though UPS next day air. Actually we mailed from New York, so it doesn't matter we used next day air or not.
UPS tracking shows that the package is delivered and signed on Monday morning Sep 08. But we only received email from UK visa office on Wed Sep 10 morning that told me the package is opened. The priority service we bought is also acknowledged. But they also said: "for all priority applications as of 08 September 2014, Non-settlement applications takes 5 business days'.
5 business days is way more than what we expect from priority service. Normally it takes at most 2 days for Non-settlement applications if the priority service is purchased. We sent email to ask visa application status every day. The only response we got so far is on Sep 11: "found that your application has not yet been assessed by an Entry Clearance Officer (ECO)"
This is a joke already. Our flight to London is Sep 18 early morning. We only have 2 days left, We use UPS overnight for my returned package.
But We want to fight to the end. What are our options now?
1. If we call for checking visa status on Monday, will it help? We want to call anyway. This is another way UK govt makes money. They charge about $2 per min for this kind of calls.
2. If we on't get anything on Tuesday, should we go to UK consulate's office in New York on Wed? We are in NYC anyway.
The whole UK visa process is a joke now. My wife went to France consulate office in NYC to apply her Schengen visitor visa, and she got it the next day.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
我LD的UK簽證是不是沒戲了?
所有跟帖:
• 幫你頂一下。好久沒有申請過英國簽證了,不了現在的情況。 -看風景- ♂ (252 bytes) () 09/13/2014 postreply 10:13:55
• 能不能給幾個印度旅行社的聯絡方式? -nyy28- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/15/2014 postreply 13:34:47
• 英國簽證比預期時間長因為不是麵簽。所以一定要提前長一點時間。 -iMe- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/13/2014 postreply 11:33:35
• 12年辦過商務簽證,申請、指紋測試、拿到簽證大約是3個星期 -nothere- ♂ (44 bytes) () 09/13/2014 postreply 11:40:29
• 打電話發Email給英國使館催吧。我幹過,有一點用。 -小黑貓- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/14/2014 postreply 17:33:07
• 我兒子8月辦學生簽證說是2個禮拜,結果3個禮拜才下來。也是十萬火急,在走的前一天辦收到了。你還是打電話問問吧。 -惜福666- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/15/2014 postreply 05:37:49
• 我今年六月在紐約辦的商務簽證,從寄出材料到收到護照前後整兩周時間 -Ycart- ♀ (248 bytes) () 09/15/2014 postreply 13:06:16
• we got it, tonight's flight -nyy28- ♂ (121 bytes) () 09/18/2014 postreply 10:54:25
• 我也剛經曆了英國簽證,非常同意你的感覺,他們像就是為了搶錢一樣。辦了一半的時候我就想放棄了。 -wandou123- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/27/2015 postreply 06:25:24