Exactly. Like I said in my last post, not trying to be negative - but there is wishful thinking and there is reality. The reality is, MP's are politicians. They will say/do anything to placate you, but at the end of the day, they are elected officials, NOT immigration officers. They don't work at CIC and they won't be able to get any more information on your specific application than you would if you emailed the generic CIC address to ask. Don't put so much faith in your MP.
The new office in Ottawa will probably speed things up eventually (in a few years), but unfortunately, those of us that applied over the last 2 years to the Buffalo VO just have bad timing. We applied right before all of these changes CIC has implemented, and so we won't really be able to take advantage of the efficiencies these changes will eventually create. We are stuck in a giant backlog that will take a long time to sort out; I expect we might even have to wait longer than the pre-June applicants because of the delays associated with moving all of our files from Buffalo to Ottawa, but I'm hoping it won't be any slower than it has been. Right now it seems like the average wait time for FSW1 through Buffalo was about 2.5 years from application to visa. I'm just hoping it doesn't get any worse than that, in which case people like me who applied in March-April 2011 time frame should get their visas by December 2013, one year from now.
