Current Processing Times

Hi,

I have seen many postings saying that HO is flooded with new applications and that it may take about 32 weeks to process. I am wondering if this is really true, as I've also seen applications being processed in less than a week or even just a few days.
I would like to know if Home Office is keeping up to its sevice standards as stated on their web site under "Service Standards - Processing Times", which is supossed to be 5-14 weeks.

How many of you who applied within the last 3 - 4 months are still waiting for a decision?

I copied the text here so everybody can find it easily.

NEW SERVICE STANDARDS

From 1 April 2005, service standards for all schemes managed by WP(UK) will include the time taken to process payments in order to reflect the end-to-end process for applications. The standards will also be based on the applications received during a period, rather than the decisions made (for example, x% of the applications received during April were decided within y days). The new service standards are:

HSMP

Service standard: 50% of applications to be decided within 5 weeks of receipt at our payment handling service and 90% in 14 weeks.

http://www.workingintheuk.gov.uk/workin ... dards.html?

Thanks,
LBF.