Advance123 said:
People should just desist from seeing themselves as victims.
London VO has no preferences and they will attend to all applicants in due course.
It isn't personal.
I am sure that everyone knows that it isn't personal, since they do not know us personally, yet the fact remains that there are choices being made at VO about which applications are processed and which are not. I am giving the VO due credit in this assumption, since it would be frankly insulting to any business to suggest that their organisation operated in a purely random way when dealing with their paperwork.
It is, however a business that is dealing with individuals with deep personal reasons for applying and so I would hope that someone at CIC would realise that transparency is important to help applicants deal with the waiting and avoid unnecessarily worrying them. The lack of transparency in the process, the VAST inconsistency in timing between candidates receiving information and the vastly differing attitude and work rates of different VOs are all causing people to be worried and upset. It is having a detrimental affect on their daily lives and this is not necessary. It also causes applicants to submit more case specific enquiries because they have no idea what is going on and so they do this to find out. This wastes everyone's time.
It would save a lot of heartache and put an end to this speculation and feelings of unfairness in many applicants' eyes if the immigration process was just more clear. They should have nothing to hide - we all know what they do at the VO anyway, so why should it be so secretive? Why are VOs like London so reluctant to respond to Case specific e-mails with a proper, specific reply, when others have been really good at communicating politely, precisely and in good time?
Everyone would benefit from greater information being given promptly and also from knowing that the timescales were more reliable. In my case, for instance, I could get my house on the market now if I knew that my MR were on the way. If I have to wait until PR comes, that will delay my travelling to Canada by possibly several more weeks, if not months and I am sure anyone who knows me would understand why that is a cause of great distress to me. Everyone here has these life considerations and it could be so much easier and less stressful and less work for everyone if this was sorted out.
All applicants entered into this voluntarily, but we made our choices based on the information given by the authorities, which for our category was 6 months to process at the VO. We were told Cat 2 is processed by a different team and is priority. My husband and I reckoned we would be apart for 8 months, allowing 2 months for processing at CIO Sydney and 6 at London and we thought we could cope with that. This is now our
9th month apart and there is no sign of even MR. So, we have been mislead.
People have made decisions based on information given and then the process does not even remotely reflect that.
I have no idea what you mean by
"in due course". In business, there is no such statement. Deadlines, targets and quotas are standard practice in all businesses - how else would you make sure you were doing your job properly and efficiently?
There are decisions being made at the VOs and they should be communicated clearly to applicants -
all anyone here wants is to understand the process so that they can organise their lives around it and make the wait more bearable. Surely you can understand that, Advance123?
