Explaining your status while your extension application is being decided

If you have limited leave to remain in the UK, you will need to apply to the Home Office to extend your leave before the limited leave finishes. If you make a valid, in-time application to extend your leave, then your permission to stay will keep going until you receive a decision (and any appeal decision). This is known as section 3C leave.


Writing a chasing letter to the Home Office

Once you have sent an immigration application, the Home Office should try to make a decision within twelve months. However, sometimes they take longer. If you have been waiting for more than twelve months, and you want to find out what has happened to your case, you can write a chasing letter to the Home…