Hi cherry,
In my case my contract will end on feb 7, and at the same time ill be having my annual leave. I just informed them regarding this, and they replied that my vacation will not gonna affect the application process, and my papers are still on procress during those time. They said that the posted current processing time is outside of published processing time.I also emailed them last nov because i need to get back my passport with an urgent subject, they sent back my PP without any reply from them.