Doubt about approval with expired FP
I don't believe it is completely true people got approved after FP expired, even though we saw some cases seemed like that. Why the adjudicators do that by violating the procedure?
I guess the likely scenario is the case got approved by the adjudicator right before FP expired. But there may be several days lagg between the official time for approval on the legal paper (which we saw on line or by phone) and the timing of adjudication for some unknown technical reasons. During this lagg, the person's FP may be expired. Since the initial adjudication has finished, they just updated the information afterhand by (maybe) data processing department.
This is just my guess. I more prefer to believe the adjudicator will follow the legal procedure instead of exercising their discretion to approve a case with expired FP.