I am pleased to announce that I received my approval letter today delivered to my solicitor for my Tier 1 E Ext.
Firstly, I would like to thank all the forum members (for their random questions asked to the gurus), Star of the forum ZIMBA!!!!!

My Case was 50K partnership,
No interview during initial application nor during extension.
Will list the document submission later
Applied on 3rd October
Received HO 4th, 7th letter for biometric, I gave bio on 15th with dependant, Partner on 19th Oct.
Received approval letter today.
Resident card to follow, no NHS refund yet.
We prepared our application our self with little help from Solicitor. I only referred to the Policy guidance and nothing else. Your documents shows genuineness of the application. Rightly and carefully prepared documents are key to success.
I pray to God that all your application should be successful as well.