UK Settlement Visa from Australia - how long does it usually take?

Question

My wife is applying for a UK Settlement VIsa. I am a British Passport Holder and we have been married for a year and a half. We've sent everything in including the require letter from me, a further letter from the people who we are staying with initially... there's no employee sponsorship however, but we have demonstrated that we have money to support ourselves for 2 - 3 months at least.

The only problem is we are booked to go on July 2, 2008 and we put our visa in for processing on April 15 (a little late after being fed misinformation from the British Consulate) giving us just about 10 weeks to get it processed.

Can anyone give me an accurate time frame I should be looking at as the consulate is giving me all kinds of conflicting information - sometimes they say two weeks, other times they say 12 weeks... I'm really stressed about this and any information would make a world of difference.

Answer 1

it all depends, nobody can tell you besides the UK,

i have read a couple of time frames:

For charged applications, we will:

decide 70% of postal applications within 20 working days;

decide 90% of postal applications within 70 working days;

decide 98% of applications made in person at a public enquiry office within 24 hours.

For non-charged applications, we will:

decide 25% of postal applications within 20 working days;

decide 30% of postal applications within 70 working days;

decide 98% of applications made in person at a public enquiry office within 24 hours.

here is the official page of the UK:

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/ukresi...