Any updates from recent applicants?

Mine arrived Friday as well - with priority service. I have not received any email yet notifying me that they have it. No worries - this must be a busy time. Does anybody know what they do if the date you put on the expected travel date is before they approve it? Would they just stamp the soonest date?

Don't panic.  Sometimes it takes two weeks to get the arrived email and some never receive it at all.

Mine arrived Friday as well - with priority service. I have not received any email yet notifying me that they have it. No worries - this must be a busy time. Does anybody know what they do if the date you put on the expected travel date is before they approve it? Would they just stamp the soonest date?

The visa would be issued on the date of approval in that case.

All they did was sent us an email where someone signed for our package when it was delivered. We are on day 11. I'm so impatient. I've seen where people have received their "Decision Made" emails at 6pm at night and on Sundays. When have most people been receiving their "Decision Made" emails?

I didn't get an email about my package arriving for about 3 weeks. I did end up applying in December around the holidays.

Mine arrived Friday as well - with priority service. I have not received any email yet notifying me that they have it. No worries - this must be a busy time. Does anybody know what they do if the date you put on the expected travel date is before they approve it? Would they just stamp the soonest date?

I put on my application that I wouldn't be travelling until 8 January 2015 and the visa I received back allows for entry any time from 7 November 2014 (a day after they acknowledged receipt of my application).  I don't know if this is the norm, but if they handle yours the same way, your permission to enter should be dated around when they actually process the application.

Edit: Ack! Just realized KFdancer beat me to the response on this 

Oh okay, great! Thanks x

I just got my passport in the mail today, so I figured I'd post my timeline:

Met Mr. RTC: Sept 2011
Got Engaged: August 2013
Got Married: April 2014
Online Application: 21 October 2014
Biometrics: 24 October 2014
Docs Sent: 24 October 2014
Received in Sheffield: 30 October 2014
Decision Made Email: 13 November 2014
Received docs/Accepted visa: Today, 18 November 2014

I finally received the Decision Made email today for my priority spouse visa.  Fingers crossed that it's approved and that it arrives quickly!!  I've got to book my doggie travel once it arrives!  Then reunite with my husband in England before Christmas!  He left Texas in early September

Texgirl, was yours priority? Hope you get it soon!!

Nevermind I see it now lol Congratulations!!

Guess what, guess what!! My visa arrived!!!!

Congratulations!!

Thanks everyone!  I think I'm going to fly into LHR on Dec 10.   

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to say thank you all for the information. It has been a great help to my husband and I so I wanted to contribute by keeping our timeline up to date in my signature.

I am a British citizen and he is from the US. We're hoping he can be here in time for Christmas.