Plan for arriving Bradford

[Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman]

Please inform me how many of you are coming on 24th? You will reach heatrow airport at 9:00 pm. It will take another one hour to pass the immigration and to collect your luggage. Now you will take bus from airport to Bradford. Check web site of National Express bus service to know the time table. Don't think of trying  train. It will be much complicated. You will arrive Bradford Interchange early in the morning on 25th. Please take a sleep in the bus. And I suggest to sleep as much as possible in the aircraft, because you have nothing to do inside the aircraft. After arriving Bradford interchange, take taxi to go to etap (www.etaphotel.com) hotel which will take 10 minutes from Bradford interchange. I took this hotel when I arrived and stayed here for one night. Two/three persons can share a room. You will stay here 1/2 days before your accommodation is finalized. Since you are arriving on sunday, we cannot do anything on that day.  Hotel cost is 33 pounds per night. So each of you will have to pay 11-16.5 pounds per night depending on how many of you share a room. . You can have a buffet breakfast over there (eat as much as you can)  by paying 2.95 pounds. Please check their website to book the required numbr of rooms. Please let me know once your booking is confirmed. This is the plan so far I have thought. Once you reach heatrow airport, the first thing will be to purchase a sim card. I will let you know very soon my mobile number here. During your journey from airport to Bradford, Please keep in touch through mobile. If you cannot manage mobile sim card, you can call from public phones. To get coins for using in a public telephone, you can use money changer to have coins. I found one such changer in the airport. If anything remains unclear, please mail me. For the first 2/3 days we will have our lunch and dinner in the restaurants which are reasonably cheap. I will never cook during my stay at Bradford. Best of luck to all of you. I am now in Morocco. Will return Bradford on 23rd.  I heard from Sarwar that CAS letter for najmus Sultanat has arrived. But Sarwar could not reach her. Please try to inform her about the CAS letter and ask her to apply for visa asap. Another point. those who are not coming on 24th, please follow the same plan.

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Professor Dr. Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman
Pro Vice Chancellor
United International University
Former Professor & Head, CSE Dept., BUET
Coordinator from Bangladesh EU sponsored eLINK project
Cell: 01715152104

[Ferdous Oahid]

Thank you sir for your suggestion. 9 out of 10 UoB candidates have
already got visa. Hopefully Ilias vai will get his visa within 22
October. So, there is a huge possibility for 10 candidates coming to
UK at 24 October.

[Muhammad Ilias Amin]

Dear Sir,

Assalamualaikum, I am glad to let you know that I have got my UK Visa
today,

So, we all get our visa and Insha-Allah we all are coming on Saturday,
24th October, 2009.

It is also notable that they didn't give my CAS and sponsorship letter
(To Whom It May Concern by UoB issued with Offer letter). When asked
them, BFS-BD replied me that they normally take visa letter because
that is for visa section not for us. But some candidates has got their
all papers. However, could you please tell us that CAS letter is
necessary for further processing at the University of Bradford, UK.

Pray for us.
Take care.

Muhammad Ilias Amin
United International University