I think being slow for UKBA (not only EEA type residence card but also other type such as SET (M) and SET (O) tier 2) may be due to the combination of Olympics and redundancy in positions.Jersey wrote:I hope you are joking, there aren't too many tourists as predicted. It's just that UKBA cut some positions so processing is slower than what it should be.spike_UK wrote:I'm agree with you,,,,,too many visa applications to deal with!!!!!!onetowatch20 wrote:I have a feeling the Olympics may have caused a backlog at the UKBA, processing applications for all the athletes and everyone else associated with them.
Sponsors for Olympics 2012 such as coco cola tend to recruit their own people instead of recruiting local people in UK. For instance, I have met two American guys coming to UK to work for Olympics as a part of coco cola sponsor
I would think that some type of visa such as student or tourist visas are issued at British Embassies in other countries hence tourists visiting UK for Olympics might not make UKBA slower.
On the other hand, if it is purely related to Olympics, the UKBA should have been already fester in dealing with EEA application. However, it is not happening right now.
A couple of year ago, the UKBA announced that they were going to recruit more temporary caseworkers to deal with EEA applications. It may be that those caseworkers quitted working for the UKBA