Has anyone had trouble receiving their police certificate? Me and my boyfriend sent ours together over 50 days ago. I received mine on day 27 but my boyfriend is still waiting! After 40 days he contacted the police force who were dealing with our request for them to contact Scotland Yard. He has been told he could have to wait another 14 days!
I never thought I was an impatient person before starting the whole visa process, but I definately am now!!!!
Has anyone else had to wait a long time fore theirs? (Apparently his name could be similar to someone elses which could be way it is taking longer... I'm sure everybodies names are duplicated!).
We had fun with ours as well. We were living in Belgium so to make things easier ( :? ) we made a trip to the UK to get all of our ID signed and the firms filled in at a local station. We sent it all off only to have it returned a few weeks later saying that we hadn't included ID (the certified copies of the ID were in the envelope with the letter saying that it wasn't there) so we contacted the phone line at Scotland Yard and got through to a very apologetic lady (yes it was an error). We sent it all back with her name on and it was going to be dealt with as a matter of urgency as we were on our way to OZ. Hubby's and son's checks came back to our OZ address no problem but apparently mine wasn't deemed as urgent as I am still waiting. It is on the system but is unlikely to be sent out until next week some time a month after the others.
There isn't a problem apparently it is just a case of bad luck as they are suddenly very busy (it would appear that mine got mislaid at some point but they aren't admitting anything). I am just taking it in as relaxed a manner as possible as at least I know that it is on the system so should arrive at some point rather than it being totally lost and me having to start again.
Keep going it should all fall right in the end, just take plenty of deep breaths.
Nicky
It came today :D :D so now we are ready to put in the PR application. Hopefully we will be permanent residents early new year, then on to buy a house (hooray!!!!)
Nicky
You can lodge it with the application or wait until they request it.
On the timeline website some have found that sending it before or with the visa application has speeded things up.
Alternatively some have taken longer or gone astray.
The choice is yours, I included the PCC with the visa application to save on courier fee's as the medical stuff is sent by the panel doctor.
I wanted to get my application in before Christmas. I ended up speaking to Immigration and they said to just put a note in saying you'll send it later.
Does anyone know how long the police certificates (or medicals for that matter) are valid for? It seems like we need to apply for them in good time but don't want to do it too early so it ends up expiring before we put in our application.
