Dear Forum Members,
So many people have rushed their applications due to april/may rule change information. Even those who were thinking of sending applicatins by may or june, have sent the same in april on priority basis. I am one of them. Now CIO has loads of applications with them. That is why no AOR is received even its 55 days today. This will further increase the time of Initial reveiw.
Secondly the time line depends upon the Visa officer who receives application. Application receiving date or NOC code is no criteria for processing. They work for five days a week and thats too for 7 - 8 hours a day. Generally people working in govt. offices everywhere have tendency to work slowly, and they take offs very often. If we assume there are only 10 visa officers and one VO can reveiw 2 to 3 applications a day then per day processing is limited to 20 to 30 cases, which is very less. This might be creating lots of backlog there.
I hope AORs will start coming in 1st week of June for april applicants.