I totally agree. I am 2011 applicant, contacted my MP, my file got approved the following week (this was a month ago). A co-worker of mine went straight up to McCallum's office last month, and the office raised the case with CIC, and she also got approval. In both cases we were told that 2014 applicants are not being processed yet. We pushed back saying that it is not true.
All those who say it is not a right, but a privilege to sponsor our parents and therefore we should keep quiet, I strongly disagree. Even though it is a privilege CIC should still respect the order of applications as they promised to do (first come first serve). Just because it is a privilege, it doesn't mean that 2014 applications can be put in front of 2011 applications. I agree that some applications may be more complicated than others and they may need secondary review and those applications may have longer processing times. However, if your application is straightforward then you shouldn't be put at the back of the line and no one should tell you not to follow up with your MP or with the Immigration Minister's office. Remember that even a month's delay in receiving sponsorship approval may mean that several hundred people who applied after you will receive visas before you, and you may be put in the following year's annual quota. So a month's delay in receiving sponsorship approval is not necessarily a month's delay in receiving visa - even one month's delay of sponsorship approval could very well translate into up to a year's delay in receiving visa. Good luck everyone.
[so worried after reading all this information....so unfair....we should stand up together for our right ..where clearly we deserve...thanks
