I really don't understand the lack of transparency in these programs. Why not just outline, "we are going to have the program open for x amount of time, so get all your documents ready in that time." Instead they give a vague statement saying the program will be open until the quota is met. It has been 2 weeks, I can say with absolute certainty that they have way more than 11k complete applications by now. Not only that, I am sure they have given out more than 11k AORs considering they are at the end of 20th Nov in terms of the time at which the application was submitted. I would imagine 11k applications were submitted from the 17th to the end of the 20th.
Obviously once the announcement was made most people submitted whatever documentation they had with LOAs due to the fear of missing out, now they have been dreading for 2 weeks whether they made the best choice or should they have waited. For being a humanitarian program, its inhumane to make people suffer like this.
This program apparently took months of planning, from what we can see, anyone with half a brain could come up with what they have come up with in half a day. The level of incompetence and inconsistencies with all their programs is unbelievable.
Why keep people in the dark, why not just say what their plan is, when are they planning to close, surely they have met their desired quota. And if that was never the plan, why not be transparent about it from the beginning.
