ILR-Set M app ? on convictions--sending app today, please help!

just a quick question.  I'm sending in my ILR app this afternoon with all the docs.  It has the section about convictions.  I don't have anything concerning there, but I am putting my one speed-camera violation down because it says to include traffic offences.

Do I have to include a parking ticket?  No points are taken or anything off my license for it.  I wasn't sure if it counted the same.  I live in a notoriously difficult area to park because of the university being by our house and got one for staying too long in a two hour zone.  It's paid now, and there's another that I'm challenging in court because I believe I shouldn't have received it.  That won't come up till next month.  I'll put it in the section on convictions I haven't gone to court yet over if I need to, but hate to list anything, especially something as silly as a £30 parking ticket.

I think you are fine on the ticket, as that is a civil action, not criminal.  But there is no harm in putting it down.

thanks Kitsonk.  Appreciate the advice and quick response.

Thanks again, a quick update on what I decided to do.  As I read the application again, I realized it didn't just say criminal convictions but said criminal and civil convictions.  That seemed to me that I did have to include civil things like parking tickets, so I did for the one ticket I had rightly earned and paid for.

I wasn't as sure on the pending convictions line though.  It only said pending criminal convictions that haven't been tried in court and was with the list of questions like "are you a terrorist?" that didn't feel right to answer "yes" to for a silly parking ticket I'm contesting.  In the end on that one, I chose to mark "no" but scribbled under to see the notes section after the question.  In that box I explained that I believed it was a civil, not criminal, matter, but that I had a parking ticket I was contesting in court as I had a permit to park in the area, but I was listing it in the interest of full disclosure still.  I can't imagine it should create any problems, but I didn't want to take any chances with being labelled as deceiving the Home Office. 

DH thinks I'm being obsessive about figuring all this out, but I want to make sure it's all done correctly.  Wish me luck.  I hate how long I'm going to have to wait now.  At least I have the consolation of knowing that even if I had my passport, I couldn't fly since I'm in my last trimester of pregnancy!

You have done the right thing.  If in doubt, declare everything, is always the golden rule.


Vicky