BAD news people.
This Monday, Home Office chucked out a bunch of letters to pending nationality applicants, based on new "Thanks John Vine" policy of 11th December. I was contacted by two people so far who received them, and both baffle and anger me.
First letter, received by a woman who is a medical doctor and had filed for asylum in 2000, now married to BC, applied through NCS in September and told app is straightforward, states that "in view of a new policy they will not be able to make the decision within 6 month" and can't give her a timeline. This is ridiculous. As far as I can tell, this is due to either their new policy of reviewing paper files of former asylum seekers, and their own files should take less than 6 months to fetch and review -- or their threatened policy of interviewing "some applicants", for which of course they have no place, to staff and no procedure. They are giving up suspiciously well in advance, this has only been 4 months since this application, so instead of writing letters like this why don't they first try to make it on time?
Second letter is a refusal, and angers me even more. This was a straightforward HSMP/Tier1/ILR case, in which, it now transpires, the applicant, who was a MSc student in the UK in 2006/2007, was refused re-entry on her student visa in Summer 2007 because she allegedly admitted to IO that she was working full time, and he though it wasn't allowed (although arguably it was a holiday). No one thought much of it then, and she turned around and got HSMP EC right away, so there was no ban, nothing. This is ridiculous, as this isn't what the policy was written for, at all.
If anyone else with pending applications got a letter, please post. Especially the one that tells you well in advance of 6 months that they do not expect to make a decision any time soon.
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