Hi both,

This is another case of how long is a piece of string. If you?ve got a job offer, your application could very likely fly through as you shouldn?t need to hang around for an interview. Could possibly be up to 4 weeks? wait.

If you haven?t got a job offer, once your ITA has been accepted, you would wait to be assigned a Case Officer, then there?s another wait for the interview, then for the final decision. Providing your medical and police checks are in order, there shouldn?t, hopefully, be any unforeseen holdups. This latter scenario i.e. no job offer, could take several months to process, but seems to vary from applicant to applicant so it?s difficult to pin down an accurate timescale.

We used to encourage members to list the steps in their application in date order in their signatures, so everyone could get a rough idea how long it takes between each step. Sadly with the demise of the old forum it appears that these informative and helpful signatures have been lost.

Good luck with it all.