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Similarity Detection Service (SDS) emails and the 15 January deadline

Our Verification Team would like to alert you to the potential delay in screening personal statements, before and after the 15 January deadline.

Posted Wed 21 December 2016

In normal circumstances, turnaround is two or three days, but at peak times the surge in applications causes a backlog of personal statements waiting to be processed by Copycatch – resulting in SDS emails to applicants and providers being delayed.

If you receive an SDS email after you’ve made an offer, you can rescind it based on this new information.

As part of our digital acceleration initiative, we’ll be moving Copycatch into the Cloud, giving us the ability to scale up at peak processing times.

If you have any queries about this, please contact Chas Lowe, Verification Manager, on 01242 545 494.