sidhujazz wrote:That is rather disheartening p2kin. I wonder why they be taking payments this early then if there is already a big back log.
Sorry if you are disappointed with it.. but that the truth, really bitter truth. The thing is taking payments, that's what HO does as soon as they receive any application. i.e. take payment and move application to "Main" queue.
sidhujazz wrote:As far as i remember, it was taking longer for the previous months even for the payment to be taken, so if the Jan payments are already being taken within 2 weeks, it could only mean that things are moving for sure.
Despite all the odds i think we should not give up hope for first approval around end of Feb for the Jan applications.
I can only offer some explanation for that, Oct was so so HUGE, they couldn't even load all applications on their system, and hence it created backlog for "payments to be taken (loading on the system)". Now that in last 2 months they processed some applications, they now are loading as many as possible applications on the system.
Payment taken is the very first step they do when application is loaded on the system, but to process application, it has to be assigned to a caseworker.
There is LONGGG queue for that, if the payment is taken then you get into tail end of that queue. After that, it's your luck as for when it gets processed.... Not to discourage you, but there are applicants from Jun/Jul 2013 in that queue.