Video Conference

[tom91]

After almost 4 years, I finally have a video conference scheduled for this week! Question for anyone with recent experience - how long will it take for a decision to be made? Do they tell you immediately or ???

[carlie]

After almost 4 years, I finally have a video conference scheduled for this week! Question for anyone with recent experience -

how long will it take for a decision to be made? Do they tell you immediately or ???

I take it this is a video hearing with a BVA judge that you will attend, at your VARO.

Is this correct ?

They do not have any answers for you during the hearing and for quite sometime thereafter.

The results can wind up being - a denial of all issues - partial grants such as some issue being granted

and others denied or a remand with instructions to your VARO.

My guesstimate is you will not hear anything at all in regards to any decision for at least 12 months after

the hearing and probably longer than 12 months.

JMHO

[Testvet]

I had a BVA hearing in Feb 2009 it was supposed to be a video hearing when we got to the VARO it turned out that the BVA Judge was there on April 7 2009 I received the letter from the BVA stating that they had granted SC for CAD and hypertension secondary to PTSD my lawyer then told me it would take anywhere from 6 months to a year before the file was sent back to the VARO and for them to actually write the award letter with the percentages in it and I would get the back pay it actually happened a lot quicker than that in June 2009 I got the award letter and the back pay 5 months from hearing date to cash in the bank I suggest for you to expect the worst then if it gets there early you can be happy