I feel like giving up

FOR FCUKS SAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In ref to this post: http://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?topic=52612.0

I sent an email to the Agency yesterday morning and they seemed to be on top of things after reading it. WRONG. Now they are flat our refusing to give DH a receipt for the £75 he paid them and have "given" everything to the Landlord. WTMF we asked you to do this in the first place and if they had we wouldn't be here right now.

My bios expire in 8 days and DF has yet to send everything because we've been waiting on this one damn document. Now he's just sending me everything on the hopes that we can use email to send whatever the agency decides to give us, if anything. My Courier has told me I can try to use the receipt or emails between us and the agency but the agency hasn't even bothered to return my email. They just call DF.

 

When I did my spousal visa I just sent in DH's rental agreement. It didn't list me on it since he signed it in 2004 and it was a 6 month lease that just kept rolling month to month. I applied for my spousal in March 2008. The consulate never questioned it and my visa was approved within 2 hours of the consulate receiving it.

Of course this is my experience only.

I read that and sorry I have no advice other than........no giving up allowed (even though I know you dont intend to)

I would be po'd as well hun and I hope all wors out

When I did my spousal visa I just sent in DH's rental agreement. It didn't list me on it since he signed it in 2004 and it was a 6 month lease that just kept rolling month to month. I applied for my spousal in March 2008. The consulate never questioned it and my visa was approved within 2 hours of the consulate receiving it.

Of course this is my experience only.

Hmmm that's a good idea. Better then nothing right? Like a just in case. Vicky any thoughts on that?

When I did my spousal visa I just sent in DH's rental agreement. It didn't list me on it since he signed it in 2004 and it was a 6 month lease that just kept rolling month to month. I applied for my spousal in March 2008. The consulate never questioned it and my visa was approved within 2 hours of the consulate receiving it.

Of course this is my experience only.

that just made me think of our lease when I got my spousal visa back in Feb 2007, I wasnt listed on the lease either

1.  Luck

2.  One rule for US nationals, another for the rest of the world


Vicky

I read that and sorry I have no advice other than........no giving up allowed (even though I know you dont intend to)

I would be po'd as well hun and I hope all wors out

I won't, I'm not going to. I'm just having a tantrum. I feel a panic attack coming on.  

UGH Df doesn't have a copy of his lease and now he's afraid they won't give him a copy knowing full well I plan to move in. He's afraid they'll kick him out.

Are you saying that they *won't* give permission for you to live there with him?

Vicky

He's legally entitled to a copy of his lease. I'd just go camp out in the letting agency's office until I got a copy. They don't need to know why and from what you've said about them they're clueless anyway. Besides if they did try to evict him it's a process that by the time its done you'd probably have your visa and be here by then.

I'm looking at our lease (which interestingly just signed this month only by DH) and no where does it mention me or our daughter, but it also doesn't say that we're not allowed to be here either, just that he is letting a 1 bed flat as a single family dwelling...Just try not to stress. Easier said than done I know.

Many leases mention 'single occupancy only'.  That's the problem.

Vicky

Are you saying that they *won't* give permission for you to live there with him?

Vicky

I'm saying they haven't said yes and they haven't said no. They are taking their sweet time to give us answer. I gave them an application a week or so ago and they are claiming that they are waiting on the "credit check".

As well they are refusing to give him a copy of his current lease now claiming that they don't keep them in the office that only the landlord has them and he is away for the holiday.

Vicky is there anything you in particular can do to help us? If you think there is Pm me so we can discuss hiring you to kick their arses.

UGH Df doesn't have a copy of his lease and now he's afraid they won't give him a copy knowing full well I plan to move in. He's afraid they'll kick him out.

Kicking him out is one of the big points this procedure is set up to avoid.  They need to be sure that immigrants will have a proper place to stay and not be thrown out of their accommodations because a lease was broken.  

Underlying this is the public funds consideration.  I.e., an immigrant on the streets invariably means public housing.  So he'll need to do something.

OTOH, the fast-tracks are more relaxed about this aspect of the application as Vicky has pointed out, so perhaps a token effort will do.

And to the OP's comment about the courier deciding, the courier would know nothing more than the doorman at the consulate about the Housing Act of 1984 and it's relationship to immigration control.  In fact, ironically, the doorman might be a better source.  

I don't understand why they won't give permission for you to live there and are insisting on adding you to the lease, this is the problem.


Vicky

Does anyone know why it could be taking so damn long? Df thought I was nuts when I told him that in America we can apply for an apartment, sign the lease and move in within a matter of days.

DF's salary from his own business can pay for the rent many times over. He's even offered to sign a guarantor that he will pay the rent no matter what happens. We've both made it as clear as possible what is at stake here and they seem to care less.