Re: SPOUSAL Sponsorship PAKISTAN @ London Visa Office
London Visa Office has a generic email that they send everyone, but they have generic email for every stage your file is in. For Instance:
1) Your file is in queue for initial review
2) Your file is in queue for review
3) Your file is in background checks
4) Your file is in queue to be reviewed by a decision making officer
1) Your file is in queue for initial review (you will keep receiving this reply until they look at your file for the first time after sending AOR), In many cases, an in-process file is actually waiting in a queue for initial review. Applications are handled in the order they are received and on a case-by-case basis.
Once they do the initial review of the file, they look for missing documents. Does the file need extra supporting documents?? They Do Eligibility checks, if they need anything, they send a letter asking for missing/supporting documents they also send supplementary forms and a few other ones. They send a letter and put a Bring Forward date on the file. Until that date comes:
2) Your file is in queue for review (On the bring forward date the file is opened and gets checked for what was requested and if things requested are there it goes to the next stage could be the background checks, verification of documents etc. If the documents requested are not there, they put another BF date on the file.)
3) Your file is in background check (You will keep receiving this generic message until the background checks are done)
Hopefully everything is done by now except the background check and they notice the medical is expired, they will then send another letter requesting those.
After they have everything they needed, the file status is:
4) Your file is in queue to be reviewed by a decision making officer. This is where they decide if the person needs to go through an interview or if the Visa Office is convinced by waiving the interview and sending passport request after making the decision.
. Completely useless 