Hi, does anyone know how long Vital will take to prepare the contract and contact me for contract signing?

HR already sent a formal offer via email, requested for photo for the public service card etc and said that she submitted the request to Vital last week. She mentioned that she's expecting that they will contact me this week but up till now they haven't contact me...

Is it normal for them to take more than a week or did something go wrong somewhere (e.g. maybe they want to retract the contract??)

Also, do ministries give formal offer before security clearance is completed?