PPR question

While not all Visa Offices have the same procedure, it is my impression that for the London office the procedure is comparable to if not the same as the passport request for those offices (like Buffalo and other U.S. offices) in which that does indeed mean a "Decision has been made" and that decision is to indeed issue the visa, though actual affixing of the visa in the passport is still contingent on a review of the actual passport (and perhaps a final database check on the applicant . . . remembering that online criminal database checks are probably re-done at many stages, taking maybe one to three minutes or so) to confirm identity and such formalities. But this is strictly about formalities, and so is all but totally done. (The date my visa was issued, if I recall correctly, may have been the same date as the "Decision made" but in any event was dated well before I sent in my actual passport . . . though again, it still has to be affixed in the passport and delivered to the applicant before it is operative.)

The delay, the "two to four weeks," is the usual: queue time. A brief queue at that, compared to many queues in the bureaucratic labyrinthe of immigration processing.

Congrats and enjoy!