AfterUserUpdate Profile Field update not showing

What happens if you get the user again using get and check that user's profile fields?  I wonder if for some reason its committing but the entity itself is not updating internally.

I'll give it a try.

So it looks actually I was doing a Get of the user passing in e.Id - which was returning the old profile fields.  If I just access e.ProfileFields, the correct ones show up.

So it looks actually I was doing a Get of the user passing in e.Id - which was returning the old profile fields.  If I just access e.ProfileFields, the correct ones show up.

I would have to look , but that could be cache coming into play, as in the event may fire with the update prior to the cache itself being cleared

This is correct, the cache is cleared after the AfterUpdate event. The data included in the event args will be the most up to date.