Stage 1 waiting times?

Endorsed for Exceptional Promise on 20th of Feb.

First 3 applications were rejected even i appealed for all of them but rejected.

But this time i resubmited with alot of corrections and finally got endorsed in 2 days.

Submitted application on 17th Feb
1st edit: 17th feb
2nd edit: 19th feb

Endorsed: 20th Feb.

Glad that i nailed it :heart_eyes:

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Congrats. May I ask what time did you get your endorsement email?

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Persistence wins. Congratulations!

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Finally congratulations :tada:. You were really persistent.

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@Francisca_Chiedu indeed and thank you very much for your continuous support and guidance through out my journey. :innocent:

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Super happy for you. It wasn’t quite clear why some of your applications were rejected but I guess a more objective assessor looked at it this time. Good luck with moving to the UK.

@Francisca_Chiedu for all three application that were rejected, assesor pointed out a totally different problem within my application, lets just say first application was rejected just because in OC3 they couldn’t find if my company was product led company and then i made chnages accordingly and reapplied 2nd time, this time they rejected OC4 saying that paper is not meaningful even though previously it was accepted then i added 2 more papers for 3rd application and then this time they rejected OC3 for not showing impact which was not discussed in my previous applications. Then i played smartly here, Changed OC3 to OC2 and added 4 evidences and i knew they are going to accept it this time because of work that i put in.

I am so Glad you guided me along :heart_eyes:

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I am really happy for you. I wished the assesment was such that if an evidence has been accepted in previous assessment, you just needed to fix the rejected evidence. Sadly not the case, glad you were persistent.

GTV (promise, attempt #2)

Applied on Feb 13th. Started tracking edits a couple of days ago.
Edit 1: Feb 17th
Edit 2: Feb 23rd (Sunday afternoon…)
Edit 3: Feb 24th

TBD

There was a comment here about wait times from submitting on Feb 20. I just wanted to chime in that I, too, haven’t had any updates since I submitted on Feb 19!

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@bradhe the official timeline is upto 8 weeks, please wait till then.

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Hi, have you had any updates since then?

Have had 2 edits since I submitted on the 19th of Feb. Have you seen any traction yet?

Anyone submitted recently ? What was the duration taken?

Has anyone heard back recently on their Exceptional Talent application?
I applied on Jan 30th 2025 for Exceptional Talent from inside the UK (MC1, OC1 & OC3) with the Business Track.
I have received 0 edits since I applied and closing in on 5 weeks - wondering what others are seeing?
Thank you,

Rejected

sorry to hear - are you applying from outside the UK? or inside?

im in the UK already but visa’s expiring so wanted to switch to GTV

What is the reason for rejection?

Anyone received endorsement for FEB 2025? What’s the duration guys?