@skippy.fluff : I think your biometrics happened under the old system, as garrett mentioned. If you look at Main view — Crowdsourced Golden Visa Timeline Database by Nomad Gate the trend in the last couple of years has been for long delays between application to pre-approval, and short delays between preapproval, biometric opening, biometric appointments.
I don’t know of a similar database for 88.2, but here are a couple of typical data points:
