The new visa bulletin has been released – better late than never!

Most people will be happy with the movement in the VB. As I had hoped, EU got a good increase which is NOT what the government would have done if they were trying to keep plaintiffs suppressed. AF increased to 55k, although we really need to see the embassies taking more cases now.

AS region was increased from 30 to 35k – which was completely pointless as there are no cases above 30k – but someone in the visa office seems a bit confused.

Good movement in OC and SA regions too.

Now… can we see the pauses lifted to take advantage of these VB increases???

Those that are current, and have forms processed early enough, can normally expect their 2NL in the next 2 to 3 weeks from now. This is supposed to be the same every month. VB from the 8th to the 15th of each month, and 2NLs in the second half of the month. For the last few months there have been 2NLs in daily batches, but we seem to be moving to a more normal procedure where almost all the 2NLs are sent before the end of the month, with just a handful being sent earlier this month. I would normally expect all the interview 2NLs to have all been sent by the end of this month, but we can see recently they are exceeding that to try and get as many interviews in as possible. They can be sent right up until the last day of the month, and even the first few days of the following month during exceptional times. One quick point, the 2NLs tend to come out in an approximate alphabetical order, based on the city name of the embassy. So, Addis and Accra tend to be early, and an embassy such as Yaounde would be later. As ever, just be patient…

To those new to looking at VBs, let me explain what the “except” XXX country means – and you can also read this post on how to read the visa bulletin.