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I agree with you. I think that CIO may reserve a space for the application sent to VO for processing. Each VO has their own processing time. Now the VO may be rejecting the application only when the documents are fraud or medical problem. The CIO may be having a old data on the % of cases rejected on the above ground at each VO. Based on that they would process the over 1000 application.

It may also be possible that CIO allocates a quota to each VO.


The good or bad news may be the CIO may put pressure on VO to complete the process (security check etc) in short time as they may have to release the reserve space for others.

The above all are only thoughts / assumptions ....do not have any evidences

My understanding, and I have no definite confirmation of this, is that it counts towards the cap when the CIO sends it to the local visa office for processing. So, if an application doesn't make it past CIO in Sydney due to being incomplete, it doesn't count towards the cap - but once they have started considering it for process, it will count.

This then leads to questions of what happens to the applications which make it to local Visa office and then fail? Do they then reduce the cap again?

IMO the fairest way would be to "reserve" a spot for any applications that get sent to VO for processing, but then release that spot again if the application fails.

It would be very unfair for someone to make it to their VO, pay $550 per person non-refundably, only to be rejected near the end of their process because the 1000 cap got hit with candidates from faster VOs.

Wayne.