As everyone in this forum knows very well that each applicant is having his own timeline due to different case, like travel historys, criminal records, fradulent documents or produced not enough documents and many more reason that you and all of us can't imagine, so they wait for background reports from other agencies so this takes little bit time for assessment and the next file which they refer makes them satisfy for their early approval due to straight forward case so this is how some files get skipped and takes a time for decision made and also someone previously posted few things which may be causing our files to take sometime to get approved; 1- they have to be comfortable that the marriage is legit, 2- medical is in good order and 3- most likely the delay for approval is due to the intelligence report they have to get in addition to the police report and from what I found out this depends on the officer who has to sign the request and typically where the outlet neck is caused. This is not in the NDVO control. As well, NDVO does not have a target number of applications per year "quota" however they are currently looking to complete certain files prior to year end, I.e. file numbers before a certain number. F000xxxxx that number".
Good lucks
