Hey,
Lucky...all the best...
So in which field r u goin to do ur Phd??? So now u can file for ur visa tomm. All the best for it aswell.

Regards,

Hie Murali,
        I had applied on 31st of Dec and got it on 31st.
      Please do not calculate the days my application took to execute and evaluate your application.
        First of all tell me for which intake are you planning? I mean when is your course start date? If its Janurary than I would request you to email them and request them to process it asap, n if the start date is somewhere after mid feb than wait for a week more.
      No matter they write "it takes about 10working days to process your application" (which from 2010 is 20days) it never comes before 30days in usual cases. Also in your case christmas and new year break have come in between so it might take a little more than a month as well as the ATAS commission was shut completely from 26th Dec till 4th Jan.
        I hope this all solves your doubt. Let me tell you this all I am telling you from my own experience, it is not necessary that it has to be this way only.

Regards,
Kashyap

hey Satchi,
Guess what??
I got my ATAS certificate corrected. I feel so relaxed now that finally am in a condition to apply for my Visas.
I guess ur wishes worked. ;-)
Well thats all to conclude this thread. Bye cya tc,all the luck for ur Phd ahead, keep in touch.

Hi Satchi,
Yes, I have done everythin within my power.
May I know in what are you doin your Phd and from which University?
I am worried as I do not want to delay my studies further, I was intending to join in september 09 but somehow I couldn't so now I am really wanting to join, cant afford to delay my joining to sept 10.
Thank you for ur luck and I shall def let you know what happens about my application.

hi again
Yes I have made a request on the web link u provided two days back. I have also received my query number but still have not received any mail from their side.
Belive me I can feel how u must have felt when ure so called rich friends started avoiding u. I can understand n I feel for you for the problems u had to face that time.
Thank you satchi for your help and sharing with me your experiances.

Yes what I meant by tellin you that I would be visiting the counsulate is that I would be visiting VFS. I know I can provide a proofS to show my actualy DOB but am just now wanting to give them any chance to reject my application. Also lets think logically, my ATAS certificate reflects my DOB as 29/05/2009. Can a person born in 2009 ever do his master's course?? He wont be even speaking by now. Hence in my case my Passport would be sufficient to as my proof but as I said I do not want to risk my application.
Am a lot scared at the moment as I got barely any time in hand.
yes to avoid any further delay I have even re-applied for my ATAS clearance obv with my true DOB and also checking all my details minutely to which I have also received the auto-generated confirmation of my application being accepted.
now only what I can do is simply wait and watch.

Regards,
Kashyap

P.S. what are you doin at the moment?? I mean you are a student or done with your studies?

Hie Satchi,
Yes I did call up on the Visa help line number here yesterday and they said we can not say in this case (ie with 29/05/2009) your application will be accepted or rejected.
I have got only one option remaining is that visiting the counselet personnally and enquiring which I feel is not gonna be of any use as they do not entertaing any queries here, but still I shall give it a chance. Would be going there in a couple of hrs.
Well I do not think ATAS has got any helpline number to enquire all you have is this email address where you have to mail them. Ohh which reminds me my mail which I sent three days ago got bounced last night.
I cant figure out whats happening and whats gonna happen. :-(


Regards,
Kashyap

Hi Satchi,
      I have already emailed them three days ago but still have not received any reply from them. At this stage I do not even know whether they would be rectifying the mistake or no.
    Hence anybody who came across such kind of experience please let me know what had been done by you to get the clearance certificate.

Regards,
Kashyap

I have received my ATAS clearance certificate but my DOB mentioned on it is wrong. My DOB is 29/05/1987 where as the accpetance letter reflects as 29/05/2009.
I want to know whether the ATAS commission will make the necessary changes or do I have to re-apply?