That post you are mentioning is from May. In may HO had massive system issues and caused a huge backlog. Lets hope our processing will take less than a week .
Same here. Took all the documents, said application is fine dont see any issues with it. But, cant issue the approval letter as system is down. Still waiting for the call.
I also had a tier 1 general extension appointment on 23rd August. Payment, biometrics, document submission was done in 1 hour (Appointment at 09:10 and was done with all of the above by 09:45). At 11 case workers told me that some issue with the IT systems. Everything is fine and he doesnt see any i...