We submitted ITA on 4th June which is coming as the lodgement date online. As my and my partner's current visa is expiring on 31st August we called INZ if they can assign us CO so the decision can be made before current one expires. They said on call that they can't do that and advised us to apply another visa. Then on 26th June we got an email from an Immigration Officer asking for further relationship evidence which we sent the same day. Also, employer got call and email the same day (reply sent the same day). Now I called INZ on 8th July and asked if we have got a CO or not, they said CO's name is not assigned to your file but it can be possible that one of our CO asked for further evidence which has been updated in our system but no notes after that.

Now we are not sure what INZ is doing. Trying to assign CO to process our file or not. Sent to Wellington branch. Any thoughts?