Yes ... it's customary for biometrics to be taken in conjunction with the submission of applications - although I did hear of one case where a person applying for FLR at a PEO office was asked to return the following day. Turned out there had been some malfunction involving the equipment used for fingerprinting. And as far as the text message you received from VFS is concerned ... it's merely a standard, automatic - albeit occasionally "misleading" - response of theirs.

So relax ... and don't be "reading anything into" this request.