hopefully very soon said:
sorry seattlehawk27
but the 28 month time is the time the file takes while it sits in the islamabad office n not since the time u applied. i know i wish it wud have been the total time of application , n i wiish it was much less than 28 months, but sadly right now its wishful thinking :'( :-[
. hope all of us here soon enough from them now!
yup, 28 months is only for stage 2, which is after the file gets transferred to islamabad. so far, it seems that 15-17 month mark is when people are getting requests and that the VO are processing the files in completion. following this initial review it anywhere between 6-10 months till the end.
in love with my hubby said:
well a relative of mine ... had it in 8 months and one member named babby had it in 6 months time ... but for that u have to be really lucky
timelines are estimates only, and are recalculated every quarter. they also vary drastically, i think in 3 years time i've seen it go from 12 months to 28 months, so who knows how long it takes to go back down to 12 months. these timelines are also for completion of 80% of the cases, and i think it was about 16months for completion of 50% fo the cases in the previous 12 months (data from sept 2012), so my suggestion to all those who are applying now ... don't leave anything to chance!
don't give the VO any reason to not approve your file when they do look at it. the more they have to go back and update the BFDs (bring forward dates) the longer everything takes ... there is plenty of advice here on what the VO look out for, benefit from that. explain and clarify anything that you think might cause concern. don't leave out information because you thikn "i'll send it if they ask for it" .. be proactive. best is to look at your application with a very strict regard and make sure you haven't left anything out. i had my brother, who had nothing to do with filling out the application, look it over and make sure that all the questions were properly answered and the proof was well documented. this helped quite a bit cause he raised a few red flags that i hadn't thought of cause i was constantly looking at the application and had overlooked such small details.
in all honesty, the MPs have been a hit and a miss ... some are great, others just regurgitate the information that we already know. i never ordered my GCMS notes, but was about to in the last month when my wife's PP hadn't been returned in 4 months but then we got it. However, there seems to be a lot of good details in the GCMs, based on others info that i have read ... if you are past that 18months mark and have heard nothing from CHC and no updates on ecas, then you might want to do so. just to reassure yourself in case there have mail delays/lost. i have lost all faith in the pakistani post system, of the 4 greeting cards i sent to my wife in karachi, only 1 made it to her house. almost every letter from CHC was sent back to them as undeliverable and then they call us and then resend it. after the second time, i just sent them TCS preaddressed envelopes and asked that they use that and do COD (charge on delivery) due to unreliable nature of the post. i was willing to pay the Rs.200 each time just so that i can be sure that their letters reached my wife within 2 bus. days. if it weren't for these post delays i'm sure we could have had my wife's application done ~2-3 months sooner! (no joke). i'm glad that they are using email now, and really wish they'd done with us.
