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by noddy214 » Sat Oct 09, 2004 7:23 am
Hi Floks,
Thanks to all of you for your sympathies. Eastoboy and VP, I am sorry that your is also a negative decision.
I made a couple of phone calls to understand what has happened. Let me share the entire episode.
I had requested my docs to be delivered to an address in UK. So on Wednesday morning (Ocotober 6) I got a mail from my relative in UK stating they have received my documents. Since there is yet time for my application to be processed, I was totally shocked. When I called them up, they confirmed that they had received my docs and HO has sent a cover letter stating that my application is in the process and I shall be intimated about the decision by post.
Since this did not make sense, so I called up HO on Thursday October 7 wanting to verify what happened. The lady on the phone told me that yes your application has been processed. I asked her if she can share the decision with me on the phone and she said yes she can and told me my case has been rejected.
On Friday, Ocotber 8 I again called up as I wanted to know the procedure for appeal or re-application and time frame involved. This time there was a guy on the line. So I told him that if I wish re-apply is there a seperate waitlist for it. He said no, there is none. So I asked him what is the current processing time as they have processed so many applications in the last week itself.
He was surprised and told me they are still doing April 23. I told him mine is May 4 and it has been processed. So he put me on hold to find out how come and then came back to tell me that HO had made a mistake. The picked up wrong pile of applications and hence those on May 4th got processed. Otherwise, they are still processing April 23 only.
What am I planning to do next, I don't know. My docs are lying in UK and I have still not received my decision letter.
While am tempted to appeal, also feel re-application is a better option. But the current processing time is 6 months, and keeping in consideration the processing speed slow down, it could take around 9 months before which I will once again come to know if UK is an option for me.
That is all for now.
Noddy