Temasek said:
16 calendar days, and delivered to Singapore. Most of the time was taken for the application to reach ACPO as using courier service was not an option as they only provided a PO Box address.
Hmm. I imagine ACPO can only guarantee timelines from when they actually receive it.
We posted our ACPO applications seperately (my wife was going down to London on the train for a hen do and the girl who was signing her photos did it on the train, so she mailed her app from London). They were both posted on Friday 15th April. I sent my recorded delivery so I know mine was received on Monday 18th April, and since they cashed the cheque it must have been received at the right place.
My wife's was sent 1st class stamps rather than recorded delivery, but her cheque was cashed 1 day after mine (cleared from our bank yesterday, mine cleared on Tuesday). It usually takes 2 working days for a cheque to clear at the originating bank - so from that I can conclude they cashed my cheque last Wednesday (27th April) and my wife's last Thursday (28th April) cos we'd have the last two Mondays and Fridays as public holidays in the UK.
Anyway, our applications reaches ACPO within one or two days. We're not on working day 11 after we sent them and heard nothing. Hopefully they'll be here by the end of the week but this is the LAST thing we need in the entire process to complete it all, so it's getting a little frustrating now!
Wayne.