Quote Originally Posted by joebloggs View Post
it's called section 3c protection ..

Section 3C of the Immigration Act 1971 provides that, where a person applies for a variation of leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom and this application remains undecided by the date on which their leave would expire, leave will be extended until the date of any such decision and thereafter during the period in which any appeal could be brought or is pending. These Regulations specify that an application for variation of leave is decided for the purpose of section 3C when a notice of decision is given in accordance with regulations made under section 105 of the Nationality Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 or when a notice of decision is given in accordance with section 4(1) of the Immigration Act 1971.

in other words, if you apply for a new visa before your old visa expires, and your old visa has expired while the HO decide, then your old visa will be extended until you are told the decision of your visa application.
Thanks. Her FLR expires on August 7th so we'll apply some time in July. We'll need to sort the life in the uk test before then so she'll need to get studying and i'll help by asking her questions ! I take it the application for flr is the same as ilr. From what i gather the difference is that you need to provide about 20 items of mail with your partners name and address. But do we still visit the same centre and where do we download the forms to be used?
Also, if we planned to go on holiday in september and the ilr has not been processed, how will this work?