Complex Sponsor Licence application

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I’m looking for realistic experiences from anyone who has gone through something similar with a UK sponsor licence application.

Our original sponsor licence application was refused on a genuine vacancy / connected person concern. After that, a PAP was sent, and Home office admitted the mistake, we were invited to re-submit the application with priority and visa fee refunded and it was mentioned that it will be treated as priority.

We resubmitted the application with timeline:

Re-submitted application: Friday 20 February 2026

UKVI asked for more documents: Tuesday 24 February 2026
They asked for items like payslips, director pay and supporting financial evidence

we submitted everything the next day around 2pm on Wednesday 25 February 2026
About 2 hours later, we received an email saying the case is complex and may take 8 weeks or more

It's been 25+ days and no response as of yet. Company is small and the documents we provided weren't too lengthy either.

we are trying to understand, from real experiences:
How long did a similar “complex” sponsor licence case take after extra documents were submitted?
Are they scheduling a visit and if so on average how much time it will take.