Hi, I just came accross this thread and I'm wondering if someone can offer any advice. My husband has been approved for his permanent residence visa and dropped his passport off at the London Visa Office last Thursday which means he is supposed to pick it up on July 14th. Basically, I'm wondering if it's really risky to go ahead and book a flight for the 15th or if it's generally the case that the visa is ready on the stated date (2 weeks after its dropped off). We're wondering this because air transat is by far the cheapest airline to fly with and I have heard that they may be going on strike as of July 19th, so we'd like to get a flight with them before that! If anyone has any advice, that would be much appreciated!
Also, if anyone is interested in my timeline...we submitted the application on March 8th, got sponsorship approval on April 7th and got our PPR email on June 27th. They also asked for more information by email on June 14th, we sent it in on 17th and got PPR on the 27th, so it was a quick turnaround.