khilo said:
Hello everyone,
I have applied to sponsor my wife back in November 2012,
the only thing I got since November was a letter in January saying that my application was sent to the Canadian Embassy in Cairo,
I see ppl on here that have applied after November (Cairo Application) and got it before me
please advise who to talk to and what to do
thanks,
The posted processing time for the Cairo visa office is currently 19 months. This means 80% of files are processed within 19 months in Cairo. CIC won't do anything to help you speed things up until the 19 months, counting from January, is over (barring unusual circumstances).
According to this spreadsheet, http://www.data.gc.ca/data/en/dataset/427337d0-7c36-4fed-8428-c6a63f8c19b3 , between April 1, 2012, and March 31, 2013, the Cairo office processed:
20% of spouse & partner files within 7 months;
30% within 8 months;
50% within 11 months;
70% within 14 months; and
80% within 17 months.
To find out more about your file, you can apply to receive your GCMS notes. These say what steps have already completed, and sometimes show comments by visa officers who have studied the file. To obtain your GCMS notes, you need to request your "electronic file" by following the instructions you can find by clicking from here:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/atip/
We applied for our GCMS notes, and they started processing the file a short time later. It may well have been a coincidence, but we've always wondered if it was because they saw we'd applied for the GCMS notes that they decided to do something.
