mansoorha said:
Hello everyone,
I have applied for my wife sponsorship in 1st week of Jan 2012 and received a FCP Eligibility decision letter on Apr 12 2012 and since then when I checked the status online it says APPLICATION RECEIVED and when I click on it says "We received your application to sponsor *** on January 10, 2012. Its been almost 2 months since I received the confirmation letter and status did not change, I am wondering when the status will change and what would next status or steps?
Congratulation to you brother, As you probably know they are lots of 2010 cases are pending which are yet not been finalized. They are now working on 2011 cases. Your application just approved 2 months ago brother and it usually takes them 2 open your file for the first after 9 to 12 months or may be earlier than that you never know after it transferred to Islamabad.
How they follow these steps and go through with you whole application.
1) Your file is in queue for initial review
2) Your file is in queue for review
3) Your file is in background checks
4) Your file is in queue to be reviewed by a decision making officer
1) Your file is in queue for initial review (you will keep receiving this reply until they look at your file for the first time after sending AOR ~9-12 months)
Once they do the initial review of the file, they look for missing documents. Does the file need extra supporting documents?? Does the marriage look genuine?? If in doubt they send a letter asking for missing/supporting documents they also send supplementary forms and a few other ones we have seen on this forum. They send a letter and put a Bring Forward date on the file. Until that date comes:
2) Your file is in queue for review (On the bring forward date the file is opened and gets checked for what was requested and if things requested are there it goes to the next stage could be the background checks, verification of documents etc. If the documents requested are not there, they put another BF date on the file.)
3) Your file is in background check (You will keep receiving this generic message until the background checks are done)
hopefully everything is done by now except the background check and they notice the medical is expired and so is the PCC, here is another letter requesting those.
After they have everything they needed, the file status is:
4) your file is in queue to be reviewed by a decision making officer. This is where they decide if the person needs to go through an interview or if the VO is convinced or the file to be rejected.
Then the letter is sent whether the file is refused (with appeal instructions), or Passport request for VISA to be stamped or an interview call.
So when they say that the file is in queue for initial review yeah they are right that they haven’t looked at your file even for the first time it could be even after 10 months.
Good Luck Brother with the process Inshallah Allah SWT will solve these problem and help us to reunite with our spouses quicker!
