London Embassy

[chrisg 0]

Hi

I have jsut recieved a reply to an email I have sent to the London Embassy and it says there is a delay of 6- 8 weeks before they process my packet 3. then another wait of 6 weeks before i will have an interview date.

Is this normal????

I hope not....

For some reason waiting for the Packet 4 has been the worse part of this process. We went through tthe CSC and had to wait ages for the NOA2 but it jsut seems harder now..

[pax 0]

It might not be the 12 weeks they're indicating in your e-mail there, but it might well be. I wouldn't expect to wait less than eight weeks between return of packet 3 and the interview date, at the very least.

The good news is that London seems to be speeding up after a severe backlog in the fall and early winter, so you may not be looking at that 12 weeks after all. But take it from someone who *did* wait 12 weeks...it won't do you any good to get your knickers in a twist about it!

Join up with the London interviews thread (link is in my signature). That'll give you an idea of how long London is taking now.

[Miranda&James 8]

I was worrying just like you, then suddenly I got an interview date. Took me 4 weeks from the date I sent back the packet 3.

My advice: Email them everyday to enquire about the status of your application.

I doubt you would have to wait longer than 4 or 5 weeks.

~James

[Keigwyn 1]

Well its almost coming up to 6 weeks now since I sent back Packet 3. Everything is in place for the Interview, but nothing from them.

However, I have emailed them twice since Friday without a reply. At least before that they used to tell me they had not received it!

[Miranda&James 8]

That's weird they're saying 6-8 weeks, probably because we started harrassing them the second it was a day over 4 weeks! We still emailed before that though but the emails definitely got more insistent after 4 weeks were up...so maybe they upped the dates because of that!

They also said for us it would take 8 weeks after processing to get the interview date....I wonder why the discrepancy?

Hopefully it won't take you that long! Good luck!

Miranda

[chrisg 0]

Well I reckon Illl just start emailing everyday,

At least there something from them then

Thanks for the support