Fighter
Star Member
- Nov 18, 2010
- 6
- Category........
- Visa Office......
- Singapore (SGV)
- NOC Code......
- 1122
- Job Offer........
- Pre-Assessed..
- App. Filed.......
- 05-Aug-2010
- AOR Received.
- 23-Nov-2010
- IELTS Request
- Send with application
- File Transfer...
- 23-Nov-2010
- Med's Request
- 27-May-2011
- Med's Done....
- 08-Jun-2011
- Interview........
- Waived
- Passport Req..
- 27-Jun-2011
- VISA ISSUED...
- PP submited: 10-July-2011; Visa Issued on: 27-July-2011; PP received: 16-Aug-2011
- LANDED..........
- 31-Dec-2011
Cappuccino said:Ok, here is my view on this.
Applications will be sent to Ottawa where a diplomatic courier will deliver them to the designated visa office. For obvious reasons they will wait until they have a decent sized batch and then send applications in bulk to the VO.
So I think it will probably take 3 or 4 weeks for the paper files to reach visa office. With all the delays from Christmas/New Year I think it's probable that the first applications with PERs on 23rd November onwards are only now just arriving at the visa office now. Jocelynandjuno contacted Taipei visa office a couple of times, the most recent just a few days ago, and they confirmed they had still not yet received the paper files.
So it's likely to be mid to end of January before most of our files arrive at the visa office.
Then what? Although some people seem to think we should get an AOR from the visa office, we have seen that not even pre-June 26 applications are getting visa office AORs at the moment. They seem to want to reduce correspondence to an absolute minimum, probably to allow them to make the biggest dent in their backlog as they can.
So what I think will happen is that our applications will be sent to whichever team or department deals with security/background checks, probably behind pre-June-26 applications at the same stage. However, visa offices have not had any new FSW1 applications for the past 6 months and this hopefully will have allowed them time to clear up much of the pre-June-26 backlog.
So I reckon the November/December PERs will go into "Process" February to March time, and for most people background checks take around 30 days unless you have lived in several countries or have held government positions etc.
So I think then next thing we will hear from visa office will be medical requests around the end of March/start of April. Some people may hear a bit before then for police certificates if they did not include them, or if VO require additional documents or information.
My 2 cents,
Wayne.
thanks a lot my dear friend for your cristal clear clarification...
You deserv the 2 cents...but how to give???