Amazing quick time for probate

Vasquez65

I’ve just realised that the cheque I sent to HMCTS hasn’t gone through yet,  it’s been years since I used cheques but surely it should have been cashed by now,  18 days after receipt of the forms? 

It’s ridiculous in this day and age that you can’t log in to their website and see a progress update 😡

AnotherJoe

Chloe901 said:

lisyloo said:

I would feel the sellers EA that you are starting to lose interest.
they can’t speed things up but they can provide infor e.g. submit date.

We were finally given the date earlier this week - it was only submitted last week! I think the vendors are using a probate solicitor and I get the feeling that the delay might be at that side of things. We just feel so deflated! Our mortgage offer has two months left to run and I just don't think probate will be granted before then (even if we get an extension on the mortgage offer I think we'll be cutting it fine). We're going to have a think about our possible options, including finding an alternative property, but first I need the weekend to just be grumpy and flumpy about it!

I think you would be best advised to start looking elsewhere, because if a solicitor is involved almost inevitably there will be more delays after probate comes back.Good luck.

Vasquez65

Received an acknowledgement email from hmcts today - THREE weeks after I know they received the forms 😡
It states that I will hear from them within 8 weeks.   It’s a simple estate, a concise will,  no iht and two execs who are also the only beneficiaries, what the hell are they playing at? 

w0nKy

I posted my forms on 6th of June, received receipt email on the 20th of June and Completed email on 27th July. Paperwork arrived 5 days later.

lisyloo

SaintAlf said:

Good to hear some cases are being processed quickly.  I applied online late June, sent documents to HMCTS Harlow and have the receipt for 07 July.  Then I received an email on July 20 that HMCTS had not received the supporting documents.  I called them that day and was told they were held up at the Harlow processing centre and this processing was taking up to 2 weeks, and the representative emailed the team leader, at Harlow I assume.  I called them again today (August 3) and was told the documents had still not been uploaded onto their system and they have no visibility of  what goes on before the documents are loaded.  It's worrying that they request the original copy of the will but things go into a black hole at the processing centre.

My general experience e.g.NSI, OPG is that there is a holdup with opening and scanning physical paperwork.

Obviously that cannot be done from home.

Some organisations are accepting email scans e.g. barclays

others are not.

I don't think it's a black hole, it's just lack of staff in the office to process physical paperwork.

If you have a recorded delivery receipt and an email receipt then there's a very high change it's in a pile.

If vulnerable people can't travel or offices restrict the workforce then I think we just have to accept the wait.

2 weeks is not that bad. NSI are 6 weeks behind.

I am on the phone to HMCTS as ours is nearly 10 weeks.

It's not a big issue for us just want to clear the number of things we have on our plate.

lisyloo

Ours has now gone to Manchester registry (we are southeners) as executor pre-deceased testator. No news on timescale.

poppystar

lisyloo said:

Ours has now gone to Manchester registry (we are southeners) as executor pre-deceased testator. No news on timescale.

Please keep us posted on that🙂 Mine has to be transferred to the specialist unit at Manchester too as the solicitor lost the original Will.

EtAl

I've been waiting 7 weeks.

Feeling slightly nervous about it now because I sent the will to Harlow as per the instructions when I applied online, but today when Iogging in to my probate account on the off chance there might be some new info it says that the will should be posted to Digital Applications Oxford District Probate Registry. I tried calling to find out whats going on but gave up after an hour on hold.

The deceased and all the executors live in London so I'm not sure why the Oxford Registry is involved.

lisyloo

poppystar said:

lisyloo said:

Ours has now gone to Manchester registry (we are southeners) as executor pre-deceased testator. No news on timescale.

Please keep us posted on that🙂 Mine has to be transferred to the specialist unit at Manchester too as the solicitor lost the original Will.

Will do. I’ll give them a call in 2 weeks if nothing arrives earlier.

Chloe901

Hi all, hope you're all getting on okay. Thought I'd update you; still no progress on the probate application, but today we had an offer accepted on an alternative house! It will actually suit us much better so it seems that things have worked themselves out. No more maniacally checking the probate site for me. Wishing everyone the best of luck with their applications/purchases