Hi, a friend of mine has applied for his final order yesterday after the 6 weeks & 1 day, most people's get accepted within a few hours. He has yet to have his accepted. On his gov portal it says something like 'waiting for your wife to respond she has by august 1st' (yesterday) he text and she says she hasn't had an email, it was a sole applicant and she signed the paperwork last November with no problems, does he need his ex's permission to continue with the last stage of the divorce? He is going to ring them up tomorrow to check