Mine are far apart, so we’ll see. I flew over thinking I had everything good to go and sent my application once I landed in California. Then upon reviewing I realised I needed docs from England and Australia, so I pushed back my biometrics 10 days and didn’t send docs until a week after that. So there are 20 days from applying online to receiving docs.
For US applications, they cannot start processing the application until they receive the documents in Sheffield... because Sheffield are not going to take responsibility for those 20 days the application was in your hands before you mailed it to them.
Otherwise you could contact them and say:
'It's been 60 working days, why haven't you processed the application yet?' and they would be like
'Well, you didn't send us your documents until working day 20, so you can't hold us responsible for those 20 days. We've only had your application for 40 working days, so that's the timeline we're working on.'
In other countries you submit your documents at the biometrics appointment and Sheffield receive them right away, so in those countries, the processing time starts from the biometrics date. In the US, it doesn't work that way, so you can't use the same dates to work it out.
The lack of communication from the Home Office is ridiculous. I’m kicking myself I didn’t apply from Australia before we moved to Bristol.
Off-topic, but you'll be living in Bristol? Whereabouts? I was born in Bristol and grew up about 15 miles north of the city
. My parents are still there and actually I'll be in Bristol tomorrow (I've been working abroad for the last 4 months, but I'm moving home tomorrow, and my parents have been looking after my car).
