Patpatriot wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 1:10 pm
As someone who has followed this page for a while I can say that they definitely are not processing in strict date order and despite what the government says they are not processing them in 10 months. There are a few people that do get them done a lot quicker than others, maybe just lucky with who is looking at them or which order they fall on top of the pile going to the printer. All you can do it wait though, I'm over 13 months from documents received and 6 weeks since address confirmation, but since they didn't ask for anything further have to assume it's just stuck in the backlog going to print?
There's a number of factors at play.
I don't see why they wouldn't be processing them in date order. It's what they say they're doing, and I don't see that they'd have anything to gain from saying one thing and doing another.
It's more likely that different applications take different amounts of time to process.
We also know they've added more staff recently, and it's likely that new staffers don't work as quickly as more experienced people. Also, applications processed by new staff require checking by senior staff. This adds time.
It also seems that the order of their processes are flexible. It seems that some do the address check early and others right at the end. Some hold off on the congrats email until the cert is printed and posted, but do they all? In the past it has been 1-2 weeks to receive your cert after the congrats email. Basically just the time in the post. But now we're seeing some at 1-2 weeks and some at 4-6 weeks.