Greetings all, very recent member to this forum which I wish I had found prior to my recent wife and I sending out our spouse application!
I will inform everyone that, although I was born, raised, educated, and work in the UK, due to my parents being Indian and never applying for citizenship, I reside in Scotland with Indefinite Leave to Enter and Remain with Indian nationality and passport. I do however have a national security number, job, mortgage etc. etc., so am effectively a permanent resident in anyone's eyes.
My now wife, Sarah, and I met while she was visiting her friend in Edinburgh, and we went from strength to strength very quickly indeed, visiting each other between Edinburgh and New York several times before deciding we wanted to be married to one another. The ceremony took place just under a month ago in New York, we're just waiting on the result of the visa so we can start our life together in Scotland.
Slight oddity with our application in that we only submitted a physical copy of VAF4A with our package to Sheffield, rather than an online one despite Sarah being an American citizen by birth, although we have been informed this will have no bearing on the processing time or outcome.
Our details are below, adding to the list of May applications for everyone's reference on times:
[Priority Processing and Two-way Shipping]
Met in Edinburgh: 27 October 2016
Married in New York: 28 April 2017
Biometrics: 4 May 2017
Application forms and evidence sent to Sheffield: 4 May 2017
Confirmation email from Sheffield: 8 May 2017
Additional documents requested: 8 May 2017
Confirmation of submitting additional documents: 16 May 2017
Decision made email: Pending
Documents returned: Pending
Good luck to everyone, the disparity in processing times between reality at present and the .gov website is every bit as tortuous and agonising for us as I'm sure it is for all of you.