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[dinasia]

I made a priority visit visa application on behalf of my one year old daughter at VFS Jakarta. I applied for a visa because her government birth certificate has not yet been updated with me as the father (we need a court process to achieve that), but I did supply the hospital birth report (with my name as father) and her passport (she has my surname. In the absence of my name on a government issued birth certificate I assumed that she'd require a visa to enter the UK.

Surprisingly, I received an email a day later asking me to reapply for a Certificate of Entitlement for my daughter instead of a visa and to scan and email my birth certificate together with her application form. Rather ambiguously the email said: In order to complete your new visa application, you will be required to make an appointment to personally submit your application at the Visa Application Centre. Please note that you are NOT required to attend this appointment. However, when I completed the application on the Visa4UK website the website indicated: "appointment not required". Nevertheless, unable to make an appointment online I went to the VFS Visa Centre prepared to pay for an adhoc express appointment but was told that I didn't need to do anything so long as I'd scanned the documents and emailed them to the deferrals team as requested. Two working days later and I called the UKVI service who told me that they had no record of my daughter's new application GWF while her original Visit Visa GWF said 'awaiting decision'. I have absolutely no idea whether they are processing my daughter's COE or indeed what the time frames are or indeed if it'll still benefit from the priority service. Has anyone else experienced this?