@kkwaiting, can't imagine the misery you're going through mate.
I've been watching and analysing the grant stats sheets. And I think this whole HR (High Risk) countries causing delays to grant to be a complete and utter ruse. The reason I say that is because, the HR citizens are getting grants within weeks and people who're nationals of, I don't know what to call it so I'd say low risk countries are delayed as well.
What I think is happening is, the candidates who lodged around the end of financial year and start of current financial year are being tossed about. I also suspect it has to do with their new system upgrade, as I'd come across multiple bugs myself. I suspect could it be a tech fault that's causing all this, instead of some made up queue or whatever b****cks they say.
Phew, I think that's the rant over.