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I am puzzled by this entire thread. Assuming that the OP is a citizen of the United States why would he/she have to apply for a UK tourist visa?
The OP's friend was the one applying for the visa and is clearly not a US citizen otherwise would not need a UK tourist visa. The visa processing centre in New York processes applications from numerous countries in central and south America as well as the US so it may not even have been an application made from the USA