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    INZ letter accepts app for processing.

    Then states application with the documentation branch undergoing preliminary verification/validation before assigning to CO.

    So if the documentation team are not satisfied can they decline the app before it goes to a CO? Interesting.

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    This preliminary checking is done by clerks, to see that the applicant has supplied evidence, which appears to be genuine, for each set of points they have claimed for themself in the ITA. If some part of the application appears not to be supported by evidence, what would usually happen would be that the applicant would receive a letter asking them to supply what is missing. What has most often been posted on the threads on this subject is notification of e.g. the wrong sort of birth certificate, or an out-of-date police check.

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    Thanks JandM sorry for my ignorance what is ITA please?

    App under Partnership.

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    Oh, sorry - Invitation To Apply, which someone would have who was applying for residence under SMC, not through partnership.

    But the same thing applies in your situation - if it looked as though there wasn't evidence, or not enough, or the wrong sort, for some aspect of your application, you would be told about it at this early stage, to give you a chance to put matters right before the case was allocated to a CO and s/he got to the point of processing your case.

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    Thanks JandM appreciated

    Makes sense which is good. So I'm assuming if the clerks allocate to CO then paperwork should be sufficient. However it's up to the CO & 2nd person check to decide if that evidence gives them enough to confirm if we meet their criteria? Logically I wonder if that's their process.

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    The clerks don't allocate it - they just check to see if things APPEAR to be in order. The case joins a date-order queue for assignment to a CO. When one of the COs (who all work about 100 cases each, in rotation, at the same time) has finished some of their cases, s/he takes from the front of the queue. That case then joins the back of their work queue. When it has worked its way to the front, it will get its first turn for the CO's attention. S/He looks it over, and sends out the first queries to verify evidence. The case then goes to the back of the queue again, while the CO looks at the next file and deals with anything that can be activated there - maybe replies have come, so points can be ticked off, or more queries raised - then it goes to the back, and so on, and so on. Replies join the file wherever it is at present in the queue, and those replies won't be seen by the CO till the file's next turn to be looked at.

    And yes, it's the CO's job to verify whether the evidence matches up to the necessary requirements for a visa.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JandM View Post
    The clerks don't allocate it - they just check to see if things APPEAR to be in order. The case joins a date-order queue for assignment to a CO. When one of the COs (who all work about 100 cases each, in rotation, at the same time) has finished some of their cases, s/he takes from the front of the queue. That case then joins the back of their work queue. When it has worked its way to the front, it will get its first turn for the CO's attention. S/He looks it over, and sends out the first queries to verify evidence. The case then goes to the back of the queue again, while the CO looks at the next file and deals with anything that can be activated there - maybe replies have come, so points can be ticked off, or more queries raised - then it goes to the back, and so on, and so on. Replies join the file wherever it is at present in the queue, and those replies won't be seen by the CO till the file's next turn to be looked at.

    And yes, it's the CO's job to verify whether the evidence matches up to the necessary requirements for a visa.
    or adding here, the Support officers role is simply to check that all the mandatory lodgement requirements are met. i.e checking passport and identity information (Birth Cert) , medical and character checks current and correct, and "any other information required for assessment of the application". They do not make any substantive evaluation of the material provided. Once thats done they process payment, copy documents and send out the lodgement letter.

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    The wealth of knowledge thank you JandM & ChrisMwn it's clear as mud to me now. Thank you both & keep up the great work you both do on this forum

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    what queries do they send out to verify evidence? Its all new to me as well, cheers

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    What queries? Well, in the case of a piece of evidence in the form of a letter, they can contact the person who wrote the letter to ask if they DID write that letter. In the case of a qualification, they contact the university or other establishment and ask if they genuinely had a student who attended between this date and that date, on the XYZ course, and if s/he graduated as stated on the certificate. And so on.

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