Hey
@timothyltl! No, from what I've seen around here it would be
way too early to expect it to appear now, even if you do have a prior application. If you have a prior UCI, you can indeed start trying to link it via GCKey with your UCI number before AOR1, but there's no definite timeline for when exactly that would become possible. If I were you, I probably wouldn't even start trying for another 3 weeks. If you are eventually able to find your application using your old UCI then yes, it will mean that they have started scanning in your application but just haven't gotten around to sending out AOR1 yet, which you will probably get a week or so later. And once you have received AOR1 you will definitely be able to find it (max one day after AOR1).
To be honest, the easiest thing to do is actually just to wait for AOR1, period, as that's something concrete and you're not trying all the time before then for nothing. But I also understand very well the impatience to get everything started before then.