I was given following direction in the PPR letter:
Dear Applicant,
Your application has reached the final stage of processing. Since Pakistani law does not permit the mailing of
Pakistani passports from Pakistan to other countries, we will not ask you to submit your passport to our office in
London. Due to limitations in our present computer system, the issuance of your permanent resident visa will be
a two step process.
Step 1: Follow the instructions in this letter to submit the requested items to our office in London. Once we have
reviewed them, we will send you instructions for the second step within 6 weeks.
Step 2: Do not submit your passport to our Islamabad office until you receive instructions to do so. The
Islamabad office cannot issue your visa before we instruct them to do so. (If you submit your passport early, it
will be returned to you without a visa.) The Islamabad office can only mail passports to addresses in Pakistan.
If you will want your passports returned to an address outside of Pakistan, then this letter does not apply to you.
Inform us immediately so that we can send you different instructions.
The text in bold is the cause of confusion.
Hi brother!
If you want to get an in person stamping ,you can get it easily AFTER informing London Office.For applicants of London office
residing outside Pakistan a different letter of instruction is issued which describes the whole process in detail[if you need I can email you my letter]
Regarding answers to your queries:
1)Yes if you have a valid visa for UK you can get your PPs stamped in person.
2)London says to collect PPs on alternate Thursday (after 2 weeks) but in 99.9% cases visas are stamped within 1 week of PP submission so if you are staying in London you can check on next Thursday[my PPs were submitted on 28th July and visa was stamped on my PP on 1st August,just after 3 days]
3)Well first of all be assured that carrying any other one's PP[including your family members]outside Pakistan is illegal ,but many people successfully do it as there is no other way out,especially if time is too short.No other docs will be required ,but to be on the safe side its better if you keep a letter of authorization written and signed by your wife to submit her PP at Lonson office,in case if they need it,but in most of the cases its not required.
4) Yes you can withdraw the amount as after PPR you will not be asked for a bank statement,but obviously you will need them at the time of landing .Regarding requesting a POF at the time of PPR 2 ,I dont think so, but as I myself did not go through this process so I would recommend you to double check with other Pakistani applicants who received PPR 1 and PPR 2 .
Should you have any other questions in this regard,please let us know.
Good Luck!
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