randev said:
I've asked this question a couple of times, but no one has answered. So, I'd greatly appreciate if someone can answer this question:
On the spreadsheet, there is a column entitled medicals received by the VO. How do applicants know when the VO has received the medicals? Does the local VO send an email acknowledging receipt or are they just speculating based on the date the medicals have been received line on ECAS is generated?
Hi Randev,
do you have reasons to believe "Medicals have been received" is not equal to "Medicals received by the VO"?
It's difficult to tell, but from what I've read it looks like this ECAS status appears after the medicals have been reviewed by a Regional Medical Office and the local VO has received a notification that it can continue the application processing. - I might be wrong here, because information about this is very scarce, but I've reviewed a fairly significant amount of sources before I came to this theory. Specifically, if you look at posts of people whose medicals have been furthered, they confirm they didn't get this ECAS status until further tests have been completed successfully.
I'd be glad if someone has additional clear facts or official sources which prove or disprove this.
We can rename the column to "Medicals received", I guess, if you think the current name doesn't sound consistent enough.
In general, when you enter your details in the spreadsheet form, it has a clarification that this column stores the earliest known date when ECAS status has changed to "Medicals have been received". VOs do not send any emails in this case, as far as I know.
