Crill

My wife applied on the 29th of July and was given the hard sell tactic of "it will take 10 - 12 weeks unless you use the priority service". She resisted the hard sell and received her visa on the 25th of August. We did use the charged email service and we emailed daily after fifteen working days had passed and received generic replies. Overall we are obviously very happy to have received the visa but we do feel a little aggrieved with having a hard sell tactic which goes against the official notice of waiting times being 7 weeks with an effort made to go back to fifteen working days. Best of luck to all of those waiting and applying.

My wife just received her visit visa. We applied on the 29th of July and received an update email to say that it had arrived and would be couriered. Although very glad to have received it so quickly (20 working days in total) I still feel a little aggrieved by the strong arm tactic by those in the VFS in regards to telling everyone it would take 9 to 11 weeks to receive unless we changed our application to a priority visa. This was my wife's 9th application so I am not sure if that sped things up a little but it seems that they are clearly trying to get the new applications done in a timely manner to help with appearances. Best of luck to anyone applying or waiting to hear back.

Thanks a lot. Have a great trip back. All the best.

Thanks for getting back to me. We applied on the 29th of July so hoping that we get an answer next week.

Did you use the premium fast track service?