With this vast improvement in turn round time of visa applications - some years ago this was taking 3 to 4 months - it seems to me that there has been a change in emphasis at embassies around the world. The VFS system has obviously speeded up things a lot but I can't help feeling that this is only part of the explanation and it is the UK government's obsession with targets that is really driving this (whether the new govt. places less emphasis on targets in future remains to be seen).
Therefore it seems that the ECOs are under pressure to meet targets and applications have become a "tick-box" exercise. In other words if you produce evidence to satisy all the citeria on the face of it you will get your visa in a few days. Detailed checking and interviewing has become a thing of the past and your visa application is either accepted on its own merits or rejected outright so that targets are met.
Therefore it is imperative that applications are completed fully and accurately with documentary evidence.
Any thoughts anyone?
Originally Posted by alfiemoon
