“When you move to the UK, you have 10 days to pick up the BRP from the post office. ”
I’m assuming this means that the BRP visa will already be waiting for my wife to collect within these first 10 days, and NOT she will have to wait 10 days before my card will be ready to pick up..
When she gets her visa, there will be a letter with it that states what date her BRP will be available to pick up. Usually this date is around the beginning of the 30 days she has been given to move.
If she has 30 days to leave of the US, from the date on her Vignette once your application is accepted, what date will appear on herr BRP..?
If its the same date as the day she arrived in UK how can this date get onto the BRP in the Post Office. Are these cards made in the post office or made elsewhere and sent to the post office..?
The BRP is made by UKVI and printed around the same time that the visa is issued in her passport. Her passport is then sent back to her in the US and the BRP is sent to the Post Office. I believe the BRP will have the same start date as the 30-day vignette in her passport.
So the way it works is:
- on the online application form, she will put an Intended Travel Date. This is her opportunity to decide when she wants her visa and BRP to start. It can be a date up to 6 months in the future, but she should put the earliest date she will be ready to move within 30 days of
- the 30-day visa vignette and her BRP should be issued starting on that date... but lately they have been making the visa valid from 7 days before that date
- if the date she puts has passed before the visa has been issued (I.e. it takes longer than that to be processed), the 30-day vignette and the BRP will be made valid starting around the time the visa decision is made
- when the decision has been made, the 30-day vignette and the BRP will be printed by UKVI
- the BRP will be sent to the Post Office in time to be picked up when she arrives in the UK (though occasionally it may be a day or two late arriving at the Post Office)
- she flies to the UK during the 30 days printed on the visa vignette in her passport
- she picks up the BRP within 10 days of arriving, or by the end of the 30 days, whichever is latest
- if she finds she cannot travel within the 30 days, she will have to apply for a replacement 30-day vignette, which involves sending her passport back to New York and paying about £200 for the replacement. Once it is issued she will have a second 30 days to enter the UK, and pick up the BRP that will still be waiting at the Post Office for her (with the same original start date).
An example:
- she submits her application on October 15th and puts an Intended Travel Date of December 15th
- the visa is issued on November 30th
- her 30-day visa vignette is valid from December 8th (7 days before the 15th) to January 7th
- her BRP will be printed, starting on December 8th 2018 and expiring on September 8th 2021, and should be sent to the Post Office by December 8th (or by whichever date the visa approval letter says it will be available to pick up)
- she flies to the UK on, say, December 12th and arrives on the 13th (her 5 years to ILR will start on December 13th)
- she picks up yet BRP on say, December 14th
- she can then come and go from the UK as she pleases, travelling with her passport and BRP.
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