"Sure, before you have received your “file review is complete” you’re essentially in limbo — your file has only been partially reviewed. II are given out based on your final file score. So if you’re in limbo you don’t have a score yet and you’re not in the queue with all the other applicants to get an interview. The queue is a bunch of people ranked by their file score and a certain score gets an interview. Like let’s say for basic number sake your file score is 11 and the threshold is 10, then you’re invited to interview. But when you’re on the subcommittee status you have no score yet and can’t get over the 10 threshold. Once you recieve that your file review is complete: you’ve reached the terminal stages of review and have a score. You are now added to the queue with that score. Does that make sense ? Obviously it’s not exactly how it works but you get the idea"...quoting from SDN user talldoctor96....last year's (2020-2021) VCU thread. I think this is very helpful to me...thank you talldoctor96!!