Process After CO.

[surinder]

Hi There,

I just wanted to know that what is the process after your application is assigned to a Case Officer ?

[JandM]

Here's an old post giving the basic outline. http://www.enz.org/forum/showthread....690#post450690

Then, as other people will tell you, and you will see from dozens of past threads on here, mentions of time from INZ are more like hopeful guesses than definite statements. When going through the application process, there is an awful lot of 'hurry up and wait'. All the INZ officials are dealing with many cases as well as your own, and delays can arise from factors affecting others of those cases.

Everything at INZ works by managed queues. When your ITA was received, it would join the end of the queue of other ITAs, according to the date order. Each Case Officer has a certain workload - a number of cases that are theirs to deal with. The newly arrived ITAs have to wait till one of the COs has finished with some of their cases, and can take on some more. When an ITA is eventually assigned to a CO, it will again join the back of THAT queue for the CO's attention, as s/he takes the top file, does what s/he can actively do, puts that file to the back, works everything s/he can on that case, goes to the next, and so on.

This system means that your file, like everyone else's, can go round and round several times till eventually the CO has had all the replies necessary to confirm your evidence. (The same thing will be happening with all the CO's other cases, which is why, even if you reply promptly to any queries, you can't have an immediate reaction - information you send will be put in your file, but it will still wait in its place in the queue till it has worked its up for attention again.) Then, when s/he can see the process is nearly complete, s/he will want to schedule your interview (unless before then you have a job offer).

[surinder]

Thanks JandM.