##### Applicants VO Vienna please join #####

[messenger]

Thanks Messenger,

That consolation helps a bit.And I wonder why someone on this thread mentioned last week that the strike didn't affect Vienna,I don't think that is true as there is every reason to believe it did.But I think you guys (from Family category) will probably get the treated ahead of us as it normally is.
Vienna should be able to explain why this lack of activity or progress for more than a year now

Hi Gearman

Strike has nothing to do with what ever is going on at Vienna. Striking VO's with a huge workload of applicants of all sorts have been constantly issuing visas. Just check out Manila. Even Nairobi among the havoc of the terrorist attack has issued COPR's last week as well. Vienna has not contacted anyone from our spreadsheet throughout this year. NO ONE!

SO, no I do not believe that strike has to do anything with Vienna!

My regards

messenger

 

[Doni]

The strike is over!!!

Tentative deal reached with Canada’s foreign-service workers.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tentative-deal-reached-with-canadas-foreign-service-workers/article14555842/#dashboard/follows/

 

[MrSputnik]

The strike is over!!!

Tentative deal reached with Canada's foreign-service workers.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tentative-deal-reached-with-canadas-foreign-service-workers/article14555842/#dashboard/follows/

As far as I've been told the strike did not affect Vienna at all.

 

[mataiz]

Good news... Hope to hear something soon in this forum..

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The strike is over!!!

Tentative deal reached with Canada's foreign-service workers.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tentative-deal-reached-with-canadas-foreign-service-workers/article14555842/#dashboard/follows/
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[DannyyBoy]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/foreign-service-vows-to-clear-visa-backlog/article14587759/

 

[BC2013]

As far as I've been told the strike did not affect Vienna at all.

It never was on the list of striking offices - and it showed a high level of inaction long before the strike began.

 

[messenger]

Hi guys and gals

FYI this is our Vienna family applicants spreadsheet :https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjvSDmSjyQZ0dE5DZk9Ua2ViTDRGZXhrM0w3V2xtdVE#gid=0

You may see that during 2012 Vienna woke up and started notifying people after October mostly! This is what we all hope for. For you and for us!

Sincerely

Tom

 

[BC2013]

Hi guys and gals

FYI this is our Vienna family applicants spreadsheet :https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjvSDmSjyQZ0dE5DZk9Ua2ViTDRGZXhrM0w3V2xtdVE#gid=0

You may see that during 2012 Vienna woke up and started notifying people after October mostly! This is what we all hope for. For you and for us!

Sincerely

Tom

Thanks, Tom!

 

[MrSputnik]

Has anyone gotten any news from Vienna? Way to silent in this forum thread!

 

[BC2013]

Has anyone gotten any news from Vienna? Way to silent in this forum thread!

You are right, but ... no.
This waiting-game is nerve wrecking ...

 

[messenger]

You are right, but ... no.
This waiting-game is nerve wrecking ...

Hi guys

Just to let you know that a December 2012 member from our Vienna family group just received a PPR today. This is the first contact Vienna has made to anyone in the past 6 months.
So we can now hold on to our breaths
Wishing you people also good luck

Tom

 

[Anvaller]

Hi guys

Just to let you know that a December 2012 member from our Vienna family group just received a PPR today. This is the first contact Vienna has made to anyone in the past 6 months.
So we can now hold on to our breaths
Wishing you people also good luck

Tom

Thanks Tom at least we heard a thing from them. I saw that he (sponsor2012) had been in process since october 2012, so that would mean that it took him 12-13 months since "in-process" to get the PPR. Doesn't that still fall within ur 14 months current processing time? I am just asking cos we have guys that have well overshot the 19 months processing time for our category and still waiting. I'd be the same 19 months in 3 weeks and its apparent that I won't hear anything unless if there is a miracle.

You are right, but ... no.
This waiting-game is nerve wrecking ...

BC the wait is more than nerve wrecking, You would never have an idea of how much I wish and pray that you, then Gearman get ur MRs so then I can hope to get mine soon.

 

[BC2013]

Hi guys

Just to let you know that a December 2012 member from our Vienna family group just received a PPR today. This is the first contact Vienna has made to anyone in the past 6 months.
So we can now hold on to our breaths
Wishing you people also good luck

Tom

This is great - at least we know that Vienna is alive (I am not adding and kicking just yet).

How long can you hold your breath? And are these real seconds or Vienna seconds :

 

[BC2013]

Thanks Tom at least we heard a thing from them. I saw that he (sponsor2012) had been in process since october 2012, so that would mean that it took him 12-13 months since "in-process" to get the PPR. Doesn't that still fall within ur 14 months current processing time? I am just asking cos we have guys that have well overshot the 19 months processing time for our category and still waiting. I'd be the same 19 months in 3 weeks and its apparent that I won't hear anything unless if there is a miracle.

BC the wait is more than nerve wrecking, You would never have an idea of how much I wish and pray that you, then Gearman get ur MRs so then I can hope to get mine soon.

Thank you. It is now just over 22 months since my application arrived in Sydney (and I believe that the processing times are calculated from this point as being the "lock-in-date" - at least für MI-2 and MI-3, might be the sending of all docs for MI-1).

However, I think that most of us who applied in 2011 (is there anyone but me left?) and 2012 will hear from Vienna at about the same time. Other VOs seem to work on files and send out requests / infos in batches, and in the past it looked like this was true for Vienna, too (when they were still sending out stuff).

BTW: The data sheet which is of interest to us (023.xls) has not been updated yet, it is still "as of April 09, 2013). Other data files have been updated to early october, though.

 

[messenger]

Thanks Tom at least we heard a thing from them. I saw that he (sponsor2012) had been in process since october 2012, so that would mean that it took him 12-13 months since "in-process" to get the PPR. Doesn't that still fall within ur 14 months current processing time? I am just asking cos we have guys that have well overshot the 19 months processing time for our category and still waiting. I'd be the same 19 months in 3 weeks and its apparent that I won't hear anything unless if there is a miracle.

BC the wait is more than nerve wrecking, You would never have an idea of how much I wish and pray that you, then Gearman get ur MRs so then I can hope to get mine soon.

Hiya

It does now yes. But when Sponsor2012 got into the game the processing time was only 9 months. After all I believe these processing times are not adhered to other VO"s. For example Rome. It is now on 13 months (was 14 about 2-3 months ago) but all the applicants that dealt with Rome took their COPR's in less than 6 months from AOR.
This is why there is no ROME Thread in our forum. How can anyone explain Vienna? God only knows!

Tom