Originally Posted by
JandM
mmm, every case gets sent for second-person checking, whatever outcome the CO has recommended. The second official checks over what the CO has done, making sure it has been done properly. It is only after this has been done that the result can be told to the applicant, WHATEVER result it is. (Your CO was kind to you, but he should not tell you, in case he made any mistake the 2pc could find.) So your case is near the end of processing.
A CO can send a PPI (potentially prejudicial information) letter at any stage, because of something s/he has noticed, or because of something the 2pc official has pointed out. This happens because they have seen something that looks as though the applicant does not meet the regulations in some way. The letter tells the applicant that, unless they can give more information or explanation, their case will be judged as it stands, and will have to be rejected.
No, nobody can tell you how long it will be till you hear your outcome. First, your CO and others from the same office send 2pc cases to another section. So all the cases from all the COs join the one queue, and the 2pc officials take from the front of that queue each time they finish looking over another file. (It is like when your application was waiting to be allocated a CO at the beginning of all this.) How long the queue is depends on how many cases were going through just before yours, and if any of them was complicated so it took a longer time than most, and this is not predictable.
kaur, I don't think what you said is fair to the 2pc officials. You seem to be imagining that your case is all on its own, or maybe with two or three others on their desk, and the official is fiddling about drinking tea or filing their nails or something - ! But there is a managed queue of hundreds and hundreds of cases, and your case has to work its way up till eventually its turn for attention arrives. It's not the checking that takes a long while, but the waiting for its turn.
well said
some of them are over excited for their second person checking.
nobody knows abt time nd outcome.