always+ve said:
Hi Wayne, no offences meant, but now I see that what worried most of us NOV PER receiver's is making you worried as well. I have been posting this discrepency regularly but no replies.
Erm, no offence taken?
Basically, for post-June-26 applicants, the volume of work needed to be done by the visa office has drammatically reduced. They do not need to do the final eligibility review, nor do they have to do the points calculation part of selection and admissabilility.
Therefore the discrepency between slow and fast visa offices should in theory be lessened, since there are less steps for a slow visa office to slow things down at. Hmm not sure I worded that very well but I hope you get what I mean
Once the visa office decides to start processing a post-June-26 application then just decide whether documentation or employment verification checks are needed, based on the how convincing the documentation is, if not then just issue medical requests and begin security checks. I think they send 2nd AOR when they start processing. Hence why for some people there is only a week or two between 2nd AOR and medical requests.
So why the slow down at the other visa offices if they have this similar minimal level of processing to do before sending med requests?
I can only think that the volume of pre-June-26 applications which have already reached the background/security/medicals stage is causing a block on the post-June-26 applications being processed?
Wayne.