Asaif:
I feel sorry for some of your thoughts. I can totally understand your frustration which has hit ALL applicants who are "delayed". If I were you, I would look back at pre 626 applicants who are on long waiting lists. I believe we are all privileged with this 6-12 months procedure. Twelve months! It is proven to be less for some and many more to come. Final steps are being taken at local VO's in a particular order that may differ from one office to the other and from one applicant to the another from within the same country and within the same VO. Each application has its variants. I want you to to imagine yourself as a Visa Officer. As a human being doing a job, you may be affected by mood swings, problems at work, etc. Your daily schedule is to finialise 5 applications. One day, you are called for a meeting by the Consul. You get an hour and a half delayed which pushes one application to another day. The following day you are feeling lucky and you simply choose another file. A new beginning for a brighter day requires that you start on a whole new application with an unfinished one. You postpone it. You do not omit it from the list. It still has to meet that 6-12 month deadline. It will. Maybe 9 months. Maybe 9 and a half. Maybe 12.
To the visa officer, you are just a file. To a more human visa officer, you are more than a file. He/she cares more and understand your situation. He/she are better workers than the former. They will be promoted someday while the former won't. Applicants are the victims of these variations unless your file is transferred to the latter for better performance but he has to start on it from the beginning. Oh, by the way, he works at a rate of 3 files/day. More scrutiny here. Get the picture? Variants.
As for Canada, It is a beautiful country with great people. They are totally the opposite of what you think. I am truly sorry you feel this way but I am sure the welcoming Immigration Officer at the airport will erase the unjustified thoughts of yours. It will be your entry motivation to this beautiful country. I am basing my words on my true experiences there compared to other countries. I have lived and worked in the UAE with the huge salaries of petroleum. I was still under-payed compared to other nationalities even though for Egypt was great. I quit in the right time.
Remember: Canada wants YOU!
It's a purely fair business deal here to both ends.
Remember: You are being discriminated at in your own country, Egypt. Fact!
There is no discrimination in Canada. It simply is not in their system. The multiculturalism is great and is strictly applied by the book. Canada is formed by immigrants from decades back. You are all the same with exception to time. Being new there does not mean that the old is not an immigrant. Canadians are all immigrants. It's your behaviour and personality that make all the difference. It is up to you and only you.
This forum and thread is an example of how Canada will be like. Canada is the brighter and better picture of the UAE. Trust me on this.
Now, again, it is up to you to believe and live your dark thoughts or relinquish them and live the brighter picture. It truly is bright if you want to see it this way
