Barring that you could look for other suitable accommodation. Or another option: do you have any other rooms in your home (living room or reception rooms) that could be used as a bedroom...anything that is a minimum of 50 sq ft? If so hire someone to come in and do a survey of your home (measuring the rooms) and write a letter detailing the dimensions of each room of the home. This may meet the requirement since any room 50 sq ft or larger can be used as a room for Accommodation purposes.
Would you reapply at that point or just send it back to them?
Bekicos - I feel for you. Best wishes to you and your family.
WebyJ - thank you for the information. I wish we had found this forum before we applied.
gilean - I was really mad when I learned about the priority service, too. I wish they could have at least notified those of us who are affected and either gave us the option to upgrade or maybe just somehow ensured that our applications wouldn't be shunted back because of a service that wasn't available when we applied.
<this is me venting...>This is a crazy-making process. I'm really hoping we did OK on our application. I did include my CV and a recommendation from my employer but we are planning to stay with my in-laws when we first arrive. How do people arrange accommodation when you don't know when you'll be there? This seemed like the only way we could do it. They have a 2 bedroom apartment with a sitting room (I think it's bigger than 50 sq ft). We put on the app that they had a 3 room flat with a kitchen and bathroom. We also have a small son (almost 4).
Anyway, thanks, everyone for sharing.
