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Update on my lovely little saga: The London office has AT LAST got in touch with us with regards to the letter. They are now sending a replacement authorization letter (re: police check, Saudi) to the lawyers and we're having that sent to the HR for my husband's work. From there his work will...

Minor update on the Saudi Police check, the lawyers are a bit confused as to why suddenly London Office decided to physically mail the request for a police check seeing as the last one was done by email. They are also waiting on the actual letter* which was, for some reason, NOT mailed to us...

First they asked us for a police check from Dubai, which had they checked the file was not needed and now since they have checked the file after the dubai thing we need a police check for Saudi. First request (Dubai) was mid July and now this one (Saudi) comes mid-August.

Aw that sucks, are you like myself and having to deal with added requests by the high commission?

In theory it means you're within the final stages of processing or at least close. Average time in this stage seems to be 2-4 weeks. In my case, after this final police check we should be done.

My husband is an oil worker on rotation, for a period of time that included working offshore Dubai. That required him to have a residence visa for the country in order to do his job. He wasn't there long, barely enough to fit the 6 month requirement for police checks but only just. Since my...

There were a lot of DM during the July 15th acceptance batch, I haven't seen that many go through since the start of our own application. So many at once made me think they were doing a batch update to try and clear some of the backlog. I did notice that a bunch of us went into processing at the...

It is also required if you've had previous residence visas for other countries even in relation to work. If you don't inform them or there is a mistake at either end such as a residence visa being issued for work not to live and they think it was for you to live in a country, it'll pop up later...

Judging by the average on the spreedsheet, it's 2-4 weeks in most cases plus the mailing time after. I'm currently a week into waiting and despite knowing I shouldn't, I log in twice a day to look for an update. We've had a very rough start to August and I am looking forward to good news to...

Yeah, it's a requirement to enter all travel after the age of 17 in the paperwork. If you have traveled extensively (like my husband) you are allowed to write 'See attachment' and attach a piece of paper to the application stating all your travels. In my husband's case that was a two page addition.

If it helps at all, I'm one of the last of my application date range (late Nov) who hasn't yet received the PR approval. Now the hiccup with our paperwork was a police check that should have been waived but both our lawyers and the government failed to realize it at first. That's delayed us...

Cheers, I suspected as much. Much thanks ^^

It does mean that :) It's also the first time we've had anything added to ECAS since this started so it's an encouraging sign. Has anyone recorded the general length of time from that point (an IN Process update) to the finish? His medicals expire during the first week or so of November and...

Small update: ECAS -finally- updated to We started processing the application on August 7, 2014. Which is the first and only update that we have ever received since we applied (outside of medical results) but it's a start. Here's hoping they have decided to waive the police check!!

Update on my side of things: My lawyers think that the government won't tell us about it (Dubai police check) being waived or not waived, until the two month deadline is done. It's not uncommon for them to take the full length of the time period to look at the papers we went the very next day...

It took me about 6-8 weeks before I could log on, you might still have a bit of a wait.

Cheers for the response :) Yeah we're waiting on getting a police check waived that the government mistakenly thought we needed so we're waiting on that to be done then in theory we should get it soon.

I'm a bit curious, what is in the package that contains the COPR? Other than the COPR, if there is anything. We currently live in Cyprus and I'm moving back ASAP due to my father having a stroke and my mother got a date for her eye surgery. So we're abandoning the island and my husband will...

Now up to two weeks wait to hear back from the HC, love how they never tell you anything.

That's my worry at the moment, due to this hiccup we have no idea how bad this actually is. I'm remaining hopeful and positive about it despite being kept in the dark about progress. A part of me was almost relieved as we hadn't had an update about our file since November 2013 till this, guess...