No. The official FAQ also conditions eligibility on visa availability, and individual review remains necessary.
Use a dated planning assumption
Request counsel’s current assessment, including what could change and when it should be revisited. Keep housing and employment decisions flexible where availability is uncertain. This guide supplies no nationality-based processing forecast and does not convert a published general expectation into an undertaking by the government.
Plan against review dates rather than completion dates. Ask counsel for a current assessment, then for two further things: what specific development would change it, and when it should next be revisited. Those two answers convert an assessment into something usable over time, which a bare estimate is not.
Sequence the household commitments behind the review dates, keeping employment and housing decisions flexible while availability is unresolved. Where a decision genuinely cannot wait, identify it explicitly and take it as a commercial risk carrying that description, rather than allowing it to imply the immigration position is settled. The official FAQ conditions eligibility on visa availability and individual review remains necessary.
Nothing in the reviewed materials supplies a nationality-based processing forecast, and a general published expectation about handling does not become an undertaking to a particular applicant because a payment has been discussed.