Quote:2) The appeals team made a recommendation, but even I don't know what that recommendation is or if HO saw any of the points I made to slm in our conversation. It would be entirely possible for none of my appeal to actually be seen by HO, which is scary.
3) The final decision goes back to the exact same members who got it wrong the first time. And normally, if they had done the job right the first time, there would be no new information. Again, see the problems of confirmation bias.
So you want HO to be the ones looking over the appeal but also don't want HO to have the final decision?