Is there anything a GE member has to do beyond submitting the application through GOES?
I ask because I got held up for months for Korean SES, because apparently submitting through GOES isn't enough -- you *also* have to (manually) create an account on the Korean Immigration Service website and then complete some information and pay on their side.
The upside is that the KIS is crazy efficient -- created the account, got conditional approval like two days later, interviewed the next day (two blocks from my hotel in Seoul), and the interview was very quick, most of which was them trying to take my picture with a camera that was a solid 1-2 feet too low for me. (I'm something of a giraffe...)