I applied for renewal of mine (by post as MS is not a condition you can apply online with -_-) in December last year! Got a notice saying ‘we are processing your application’ pretty quickly afterwards with a section 88 notice attached (the you can keep driving whilst application is in progress thing)
In September this year I got a letter saying they were happy to issue new licence now they’d checked my medical stuff but need new photo with the ‘if I don’t receive the photo in 14 days I will assume you no longer wish to proceed with the licence’ stuff on. A letter, I might add, dated 3 days before I got it, so down to 11 days I guess. So I special delivered photo and form same day, they got it the following day..
Fast forward to back end of October, I’m begining to worry as not only will the extension given to all licence holders run out November 14th for me, my section 88 notice will also run out only a few weeks later.
Tried and failed multiple times to contact dvla to find out Wtf was going on. Just kept my fingers crossed it’d turn up in time…
New licence arrived November 13th with a day to spare before old one was completely void… What a mess.
Moral of story seems to be, it’ll arrive eventually even if its stressful as hell not knowing what’s going on.