Just a message for asaif, wenstumped and all the other early London applicants like us who aren't hearing anything.
We have just sent a case-specific e-mail to London asking what is happening and stating that we as Cat 2 are supposed to be processed within 6 months and are not yet even showing as IN PROCESS (despite receiving PER on 24th Jan and that was very late!).
However, now London are stating 28 DAYS response time for case specific enquiries, which is an increase of 8 days on what they were quoting previously.
I am sad to say that I do not think that this bodes well for us London applicants and suggests to me that somehow they are trying to fend people off who have a legitimate reason for querying their processing status and do not want to tell anyone what is going on. We are judging by what the VO website is quoting for timescale for Cat 2 applications and our status on ecas changed to RBVO early in March and so has been there for nearly two months with no change in status. Even the Cat 1 says only 13 months and we have already been waiting for 8 months to get to this stage.
Sorry to be bringing you bad news, everyone, but I would suggest that if you want to lodge a case specific enquiry you do not wait and get it is ASAP because I assume they are quoting working days and so it will likely be another month and more before that gets any response.
I feel London are being unfathomably unfair in whom they are choosing to process and I honestly can say that as well as having a job currently in Canada and having been checked out for that by HRSDC, we have one of the simplest and most straightforward applications anyone could wish for - just us two adults with buckets of points for education, age and experience, no kids, ex-spouses, convictions or any other impediments........ I just cannot see why our application is taking so long to get anywhere.
If we are being penalised for all the fraudulent job claims that have been made by other applicants in recent history, then it is a sad day for Canada that it is disadvantaging genuine applicants for the sake of all the cheats out there.
