Any updates from recent applicants?

OMG... just checked email..... AGAIN and I have the 'decision has been made" email AND an email with the courier service (UPS) tracking number.      Yikes..."If anyone contacts you advising that your application is still under consideration or that they can influence the outcome of your application in any way, they cannot - please report any such approach to VisaSheffield@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk."  That doesn't make me comfortable.  I try to read so many things between lines that probably aren't there.  Did your emails say that?

I am not sure how I'm going to survive this weekend waiting for this envelope to arrive maybe Monday or Tuesday.... GAHHHHHH!!!

I'll be living in Ilkley, which is 15-20 miles to Leeds, up in Yorkshire.  The hubs grew up there.  I love it up there... HUGELY different from Chicago.  LOL   

My email said the same thing.  It is going to be a long weekend, our envelope is to be delivered on Monday before 10:30am and according to the tracking it has arrived in Philadelphia.  Cant even keep busy this weekend as we have another blizard coming Saterday and Sunday so we will be housebound..

OMG... just checked email..... AGAIN and I have the 'decision has been made" email AND an email with the courier service (UPS) tracking number.     Yikes..."If anyone contacts you advising that your application is still under consideration or that they can influence the outcome of your application in any way, they cannot - please report any such approach to VisaSheffield@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk."  That doesn't make me comfortable.  I try to read so many things between lines that probably aren't there.  Did your emails say that?

I am not sure how I'm going to survive this weekend waiting for this envelope to arrive maybe Monday or Tuesday.... GAHHHHHH!!!

I'll be living in Ilkley, which is 15-20 miles to Leeds, up in Yorkshire.  The hubs grew up there.  I love it up there... HUGELY different from Chicago.  LOL  

Girls! I am so excited for you! I hope it doesn't take long for them to email me 

Alixandrite, I'll most likely end up in leeds or york as my husband is originally from east yorkshire, and well, I like it up there were just down south will he's based there.

OMG... just checked email..... AGAIN and I have the 'decision has been made" email AND an email with the courier service (UPS) tracking number.      Yikes..."If anyone contacts you advising that your application is still under consideration or that they can influence the outcome of your application in any way, they cannot - please report any such approach to VisaSheffield@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk."  That doesn't make me comfortable.  I try to read so many things between lines that probably aren't there.  Did your emails say that?

I am not sure how I'm going to survive this weekend waiting for this envelope to arrive maybe Monday or Tuesday.... GAHHHHHH!!!

I'll be living in Ilkley, which is 15-20 miles to Leeds, up in Yorkshire.  The hubs grew up there.  I love it up there... HUGELY different from Chicago.  LOL   

Mine said the same thing!  I forwarded the email to my fiance so he knows as well. 

Chdennis, I am sure yours will be coming soon!  It seems like it goes in batches. 

Yorkshire is such a beautiful part of the UK!  I love visiting the South, but I really love the North

Chdennis, I am sure yours will be coming soon!  It seems like it goes in batches. 

I agree, your timeline seems to be a little bit behind ours as far as when it was received in Sheffield.

yup, I think if I'm lucky maybe next week sometime?

I have my fingers crossed for you!! 

I have my fingers crossed for you!! 

Thanks! Positive vibes all around!

I've just had my wife's visa issued after 2 weeks non-priority, from the Manila hub. I think in the "decision has been made email" if you have a reference number (i.e REF3287462) in the email subject line and the visa doesn't say "Dear Applicant", "Best regards", or give a contact email address then it means you've got the visa, and vice versa.

Currently in Chandler Arizona.

Oh my gosh, I'm in Tempe, AZ and I'm leaving in 2 weeks! Small world!

Congratulations to everyone whose gotten their visas recently...since I got mine, I realize I don't check the forums as frequently as I'm not OBSESSING so much!

9 days non-priority...didn't need to hear that!  Oh well, I got mine in 2 days, so I guess the extra $500 was worth it...and I didn't need the extra week of stress either!

Having waited 1 1/2 years for the entire visa process for my husband to come to the US, to be honest I was expecting to wait more than 9 days.  LOL  This process is so much easier, but more expensive.  US immigration requires a physical exam and interview as well as all of the paperwork.  And we were an easy case. 

I've just had my wife's visa issued after 2 weeks non-priority, from the Manila hub. I think in the "decision has been made email" if you have a reference number (i.e REF3287462) in the email subject line and the visa doesn't say "Dear Applicant", "Best regards", or give a contact email address then it means you've got the visa, and vice versa.

Ours has VAF 157*** in the subject and it starts Dear Jonathan * W*** Regarding Visa Application: GWF 03461**** For Jonathan * W***
It ends with Kind Regards, Sheffield Visa Section There is no email address listed in the email.

We are hoping that means we have a visa approved..

Mine was like that as well Kezzie62. 

And now I have tracking info... eeeeeeeeee!!! 

Scheduled Delivery:
Monday, 02/16/2015, by 10:30 A.M.

Hoping weekend storms don't slow it down.

Definitely not sleeping this weekend... at all... LOL

Mine was like that as well Kezzie62. 

And now I have tracking info... eeeeeeeeee!!! 

Scheduled Delivery:
Monday, 02/16/2015, by 10:30 A.M.

Hoping weekend storms don't slow it down.

Definitely not sleeping this weekend... at all... LOL

Mine email was exactly like both of yours and mine is also scheduled for the same time on Monday!  I am half excited, half very nervous!!!

Oh my gosh, I'm in Tempe, AZ and I'm leaving in 2 weeks! Small world!

YAY,  so close! so excited for you!

I would say those visas have been granted and I hope they have, but obviously you still have to wait and find out. I think if there's a VAF or REF number, usually in the subject line, it means the visa's been granted as that, simply, is the visa number. And if the visa hasn't been granted then the applicant needs a way to contact the relevant authorities which is what the contact email address would be for. This is speculation, but it makes perfect sense. Some people say all the emails are generic (although they're not even that as they vary around the world) but I think that's only for confidentiality and privacy purposes. UKBA can say they didn't say anything explicitly or even implicitly about what the decision was, but that doesn't mean there can't be some practical differences between yay or nay emails.