An applicant filed on 9 April and gave biometrics on 14 April (2022 — treat timings as historical), then worried when the medical still showed as not updated weeks later: had the advertised 12-week processing countdown even begun?
What members clarified:
- The processing countdown starts after biometrics. Not after the medical shows as updated. Once biometrics were done on 14 April, the clock was running.
- Medical updates lag — often harmlessly. The typical pattern reported was 10–15 days for the medical to reflect in the account, but several members (including one in the identical situation, and a friend of the poster who attended the same medical appointment and filed the same day) were past that window with no update and no adverse consequence.
- A late medical update is not a medical problem. Members' first question was whether anything unusual happened during the exam; with a routine exam, a slow status update is a back-office artifact, not a red flag on your health assessment.
- No action needed early on. The consistent advice was simply to wait a few more days — no webform, no panic — because the delay does not affect the visa decision or its overall duration.
Practical takeaway: track your file's age from biometrics, expect the medical status to trail by days or weeks, and reserve escalation for when the
overall file exceeds published processing times.