@shimminbeg@masto.ai I've been trying to work out any plausible explanation. I held DV in the past and have numerous anecdotes about peers failing to get their clearance, but I had no idea FCDO had the power to overrule UKSV and grant it anyway. And that a non-political civil servant could do that without consulting a political role seems absurd to me. It is standard that thirty parties (not the subject or sponsor) only get the outcome, not the detail, but even so I find this baffling.