Has anyone got any experience with writing to their MP when things are taking too long? It's been over 40 days for us with no communications that indicated we are not straightforward and given that call centre is utter waste of time I've been contemplating to write to our MP ( or the Queen?) . What's the most effective way of doing this? email? letter? in-person?
You can't do anything until 60 working days have passed anyway, because that's the service standards time that they have to work towards. If they go past 60 working days and haven't sent a non-straightforward email, then they are past their target time and you can complain.
Once you get to 60 working days, you can contact your MP, though writing is unlikely to do anything (it could take weeks to get a response), so the best thing to do is to have your sponsor go and see them in person.
I'm not sure what MPs can do these days though - they used to be able to speak to UKVI directly and pull some strings, but they too seem to be getting the brush off from Sheffield lately.
