No surety just presumption. It may or may not be and I concur that issuance of a CoA only confirms that appropriate supporting evidence has been checked and accepted. This initial check might be done by frontline admin staff before details are entered into a system that generates a case ID, then slots the application into a queue to await allocation to a caseworker.jotter wrote:Are you sure about whether it's necessarily the same caseworker that does the initial check/COA and that does the final processing?
I feel that the question most non-EEA family members who have applied and are waiting ponder is: Why does it take so long - up to and beyond 6 months for some? Especially when EEA nationals' residence docs can and have been finalised and issued in under 2 weeks, one wonders if there is by default a 'laissez-faire' attitude towards non-EEA applications or if uber-rigorous checks are done that require months to complete.
Are there any insiders here who can give a sneak peak into the den of UKBA case working? Knowing might slightly ease the anxiety of the wait.