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Cam1234
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What I personally know from talking to CIC: (and to answer some of your concerns above)Cappuccino said:Added to that the factual differences that people have been told, and the fact that the "CIC" staff cannot seem to access the actual CIC computer system, and all this lends itself to the theory that the number people have been calling are in fact either some separate customer service unit, or even an outsourced third party whose job it is to take CIC's phone calls. One can almost imagine CIC telling them "If they ask about AORs, just tell them 33 weeks" as a blanket fob-off. It may also explain why some "CIC" staff hadn't even seem to have heard of an AOR.
Some of the earliest applications are now sitting on 130+ days since their applications arrived, and not only have no AOR, they have no timeline or expectation as to when they might realistically be expecting to get one.
CIC stated on their website (would need to check but they probably still do) that AOR should take 45 to 90 days...
Wayne.
1. The number we are dialing is Central Immigration in Ottawa, they are not some out sourced 3rd party.
2. They do have access to the Sydney computer system, the agent I spoke to even had access to a list of those people whose completeness check had failed, and their applications were being returned.
3. After June 26, Sydney not only has the new responsibility of doing the Completeness check, but full eligibility. My understanding is, most of the eligibility work was done at VOs before. So add the time required to do completeness checks and full eligibility for everyone and that is why we are not getting AORs in 45 to 90 days.
4. Because of the procedure mentioned in 3 above, the job at the VOs will be less and therefore consume less time.
5. AORs come from Sydney
6. I don't know of anyone outside of this forum who has heard of the term AOR, I first heard of it here and thought it was a term made up on these threads. They simply call it a notification, either by email or letter, that you have either passed or failed eligibility; if passed you will get your ID number in the communication.
Hope this has been helpful,
Cam