Four-day turnaround for fiancée visa?!

[maudite]

I got email confirmation that my application was received at the office in Sheffield on December 19th, and yesterday (December 23), I got an email saying a decision has been made and my passport is being returned. It doesn't say what the decision is, of course, and I'll be biting my nails till Friday, when it's scheduled for delivery.

Has anyone heard of anyone actually getting a GOOD result in that little time? I'm a US citizen still living in the US. I applied online for a fiancée visa a few weeks ago.

I had to wait a couple of weeks to get my biometrics done because I needed some additional paperwork from my fiancé, and finally mailed in my application with a ridiculous amount of supporting documentation (copies of his pay stubs and bank statements and mine, proof of income, a copy of the rental agreement he signed on the house we're moving to, the first utility bill he received at the house (which he hasn't actually moved into yet). confirmation from the registry office of our scheduled wedding date, the confirmation of our reservation for the honeymoon cottage, credit card receipts and photos from his visit to me in Austin, a copy of my divorce decree, the signed form indicating he plans to support me financially once I arrive, and I don't even remember what else.

Basically we just sent them absolutely everything we could come up with. I didn't use the priority service because we've still got plenty of time. I'm hoping it went through so fast because we sent them everything but the Spam sink, but I can't help worrying that this is just *too* fast.

Ummm... and can anyone tell me why the board changed the name of the room you cook in to "Spam"?

[Lucapooka]

In the UK, the marketing of really crappy, cheap cupboards for use in that part of the house where food is prepared, is very often done by way of pervasive spamming on discussion forums. Hence, the forum software is set to filter certain words and replace them with a suitable identifier. It's not usual to use that word in an immigration context so you have fallen into a rare case where you have been filtered yet are not, in fact, a spammer!
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It is perfectly possible to be granted a settlement visa in under 4 days so do not worry unnecessarily about the short turnaround.