Cheers. The AWL form refers to a "verifier" rather than a referee. In my original application me and a colleague just filled in our applications together, and each signed as verifiers for the other. Neither of us were contacted by the Police. This time the Police contacted my verifier the day after I submitted my application, and subjected him to quite extensive questioning. But that's as far as the process has apparently progressed. Do you know if the Police are visiting all AWL applicants at renewal?

I'm just not sure if I should be chasing them up or leaving it to run its course. I am convinced my original application only progressed because I chased them up, too much of a coincidence that five months after I applied they happened to process my form a couple of days after I chased! But at renewal it's different, my existing licence continues to be valid until the renewal is decided, so maybe no special reason to chase.