He is lucky that his application was transferred to somewhere else.
VOs at Abu Dhabi firstly try their best to reject the applications. If everything looks fine then they keep decisions delayed until the admission/job offer is declined by the university/employer
I really think there should be a thorough audit done on AUH VO. There is something terribly wrong there. Either the VO's are extremely lazy to review files as they should or they are not trained enough to validate files.