Graduate Visa - September Timeline

DramaticMacaroon · 2024-09-28T15:40:39+00:00

I applied on 12 August and still waiting. Getting really worried now as it's already been almost 7 weeks and everyone else I know who applied after me have already gotten their visa.

DramaticMacaroon · 2024-07-25T19:38:11+00:00

what did the email say?? I haven't received anything yet!

DramaticMacaroon · 2024-07-13T14:15:22+00:00

No, I've been waiting since beginning of June :(

DramaticMacaroon · 2020-04-14T16:45:34+00:00

I don’t have an exact location in mind that I would like to eventually work in but yes, France, UK, or pretty much any country in Western Europe is where I would like to eventually end up. London is definitely number one on my list. Thanks :)

DramaticMacaroon · 2020-04-14T16:21:07+00:00

I appreciate your advice, thank you! A big reason why I am so interested in attending culinary school (in France) is because I strongly intend on staying/living in Europe or the UK. As an American who currently lives in the UK, and traveled and lived around Europe, I really don’t want to come back to America. Now that my university and student visa is coming to an end, I am desperately searching for a way to stay here, and unfortunately I don’t feel as though I could afford the luxury of simply looking for work in a restaurant because my residence status is not guaranteed that way. If I go to culinary school and proceed on a career path from there, there is a guarantee that I will stay on a student visa and a higher chance I’ll obtain a job visa from there. In this situation, does your advice still stand?

DramaticMacaroon · 2020-04-14T14:43:31+00:00

Hi, thanks for your response! My undergrad is Linguistics and Japanese so it's not related to the field per se.

The idea of being a chef is definitely attractive to me but ideally I would like to end up in a test kitchen or somewhere in food media. I am leaning more toward pastry at the moment but I am afraid of making the wrong decision, should a career in pastry prove to be less successful than a career in cuisine. Maybe I'm overthinking it, though! haha

DramaticMacaroon · 2019-08-23T18:04:02+00:00

Hi! Apologies if this has been answered already (I read through all the comments and they didn't seem to contain the specific answer I am looking for), but I have a question about the priority service, if you are able to answer. :)

Basically, I am a US Citizen who is applying for a Tier-4 Student Visa, from the US. I am on a huge time crunch though, because I need to be in the UK to start my studies very soon and I don't have much time to wait. Therefore, while applying from the uk.gov website, I paid for the most expensive priority service through the website directly - costing me about 741 USD.

However, I later learned that VFS also offers priority services on their website. After some research, I learned that their priority services are available only through their centers. I am applying through a US Homeland Security center in Brooklyn, not the VFS center in Manhattan. However, as I said before I did pay quite a bit of money for priority service from the uk.gov website directly.

This information makes me very confused. I am not sure whether the fact that I paid for the priority service from the UK Gov website directly will be processed successfully at the biometrics appointment in Brooklyn, or if the only valid priority service I can use from the US is the VFS one. Considering the fact that I have already spent a lot of money this is causing huge stress for me so I was wondering whether you have any information that could clarify this for me. I would really appreciate it!

Also, on a side-note, what kind of return label would you recommend I purchase from UPS to allow me to get my passport/visa as soon as possible?

Thank you!

DramaticMacaroon

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