At present, the Minister is suggesting that most applications are taking up to 23 months to process. Our legal advice certainly at present would be that any delay over 23 months needs to be looked at and actioned immediately.
Our advice to clients is that if your delay is 24 months and it’s been a standard application that you would write a warning letter to the Minister threatening to take legal action compelling them to issue a decision and in parallel to doing that also writing for a Subject Access Request so that you can have a look at the file and see exactly what work has been done on the file to date.