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by push » Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:00 am
nshar1,
I can understand that you have faced problems as far as your dealing with the HO is concerned. However, there is nothing that the people who access this board can do about it. It is very well known that HO does not function like a private organisation but so do such offices in almost all the countries. At the same time HO has been pretty quick in disposing a number of applications very quickly. I have been reading a lot of posts on this forum which say that the applications were cleared within 3-5 days !!
Even if there have been repeated problems with your applications, we can not assume that there has been discrimination. May be you (and others who have vented their anger at HO) were really unlucky. As someone rightly pointed out, the sample of the people who actually POST on this forum is biased (we see a lot many posts regarding problems faced and hardly any regarding the successes) and is not representative of the overall applicant pool.
So please bear with it for some more time (wait for the letter to arrive) and in the meanwhile, if possible, see if you can offer some advice to future applicants (like may be marking it in Bold that they want the documents to be picked up by courier etc.). There are lessons to be learnt from such cases.
I know that you did what was possibly the best, but sometimes things go wrong and at times repeatedly. I am not trying to defend HO or refuting the fact that you have been put in a trouble due to negligence at their end - just trying to drive home the point that this should not be seen as some kind of a conspiracy against an individual by the HO.
best regard,
push_hsmp