It’s all very NAA specific; the Dutch seem to have taken a rather grown up approach to the SOLI examiner transfer. A free examiner seminar with a professional senior examiner plus a modest certificate issue fee were all that were required to transfer examiner privileges. In fact all their examiner seminars are run for free by the national authority. I’ve heard some odd stories about the reverse journey back to the CAA but hopefully smoother since the UK certificate will have only briefly been withdrawn (shmaybe).
What has been incredibly frustrating is the approach taken by some regarding qualifications gained and revalidated since applying for SOLI change but before new SOLI licence issue - quite clearly this remains the responsibility of the donor authority until the process completes (part.ARA.360(d)) - but try telling that to the persons with my paperwork!
good luck all with riding this storm.