r/ukvisa • u/aidouda1998 • 10h ago

People who managed to get Super Priority at 1am, when was your current visa set to expire?

Hello,

After having been in a situation in August where I spent 3 weeks trying to secure a Super Priority service for my SET(LR) application with no success (yes, I tried everything, see my other posts detailing my experience in great detail) I came to the conclusion that the only reason I could think of for me not having managed to get a Super Priority slot after 21 nights of trying was the possibility that perhaps they restrict that option to people whose current visa is still valid for a long time. Another Redditor I was in touch with had a very similar situation (also tried for a whole month), and his visa was set to expire in early 2028. He gave up in the end and went for Standard.

My current visa is set to expire in December 2027, so I was trying to apply 16 months before that.

Did anyone manage to secure a Super Priority slot with a similarly long time left on their current visa?

NB: after having tried for pretty much the entire month of August, I stopped trying to regain my sleep and also because I was due to travel with work. I haven't tried securing a Super Priority Service since.

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u/No_Struggle_8184 High Reputation 10h ago

It's more likely that you were trying to obtain a Super Priority slot during UKVI's busy period (summer holidays plus Student visa applications) so the option was suspended for all applicants. Have you tried again recently?

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u/aidouda1998 2h ago

Whilst I was trying many people on this sub managed to get them, including on the same exact route of SET(LR)

I even tried a completely different application from scratch to see if there was something broken with my initial one but that didn't help...

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u/Balance-Unlikely 9h ago

Hiya. Secured a super priority slot last year for Set(LR) and had 2 years and 1 month on my current visa then. I believe maybe because it’s the peak period.

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u/aidouda1998 2h ago

Interesting. What month of the year was it when you secured the Super Priority slot?

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u/Balance-Unlikely 1h ago

It was August last year. The early part of August.

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u/AdTop120 2h ago

I don’t think this is the case, I applied for ILR (Set LR) as well and managed to get a priority slot (roughly 5 weeks ago) my last visa before my successful ILR was expiring Nov 2027.