ukswus wrote:The woman at at the NCS told me that 75% of applications are supposed to be decided within 3 months. Given that about zero % of post-biometric April applications have been decided so far, it looks like this target has failed spectacularly.
They have at least 40-50,000 backlog of post-biometric applications, plus probably another 20-30,000 of pre-biometric cases not decided yet, plus about 10,000-15,000 new applications submitted every month. At their current decision rate, unless they speed it up, they will be failing their standards by the huge amont of time.
I hope you're wrong about the 20-30,000 pre-biometric cases still to process! I reckon they've been concentrating on those ones and are nearly finished (maybe not including the so-called "complex" cases).
The new stats will come out at the end of August, where we will see how many they've still got to process from pre-biometric era, but because they don't automatically publish these figures unless asked to under FOIA, we might not actually see them until September.
I agree, at current rates of progress, we won't be seeing end of April or May decisions until the end of the year! But I'm hoping things will suddenly pick up after summer holidays etc.