I dont know if you got a chance to see this but I thought it was informative
These figures are from January 2012. They are the total number of non-parental (i.e. spousal and child) sponsorship cases sitting in the queue, ordered from largest backlog to smallest.
You can definitely see the link between longer processing times and backlogs in centres such as Islamabad and Singapore. Also notice that the countries that supply the majority of our immigrants, such as India and the Philippines, run large queues at any given time simply due to the volume of files that they process.
Islamabad 5119
New Delhi 3959
Singapore 3496
Buffalo 3009
Manila 2851
Hong Kong 2761
Kingston 2147
Nairobi 1794
Damascus 1312
Port of Spain 1279
Beijing 1180
London 864
Colombo 747
Accra 738
AbuDhabi 606
Bogota 592
Moscow 558
Guatemala 487
Sydney 458
Mexico 456
Paris 388
Vienna 368
Seoul 363
Abidjan/Dakar 330
Cairo 319
Havana 313
Kiev 277
Tokyo 271
Lima 231
New York 228
Rome 219
Pretoria 202
Santo Domingo 200
Los Angeles 197
Bucharest 191
Sao Paulo 179
Berlin 170
Warsaw 169
Detroit 161
Tel Aviv 137
Rabat 125
Ankara 115
Buenos Aires 104
Port-au-Prince 80
Kuala Lumpur 79
Caracas 72
Santiago 62
Seattle 57
Taipei 8
Bangkok 4
These figures are from January 2012. They are the total number of non-parental (i.e. spousal and child) sponsorship cases sitting in the queue, ordered from largest backlog to smallest.
You can definitely see the link between longer processing times and backlogs in centres such as Islamabad and Singapore. Also notice that the countries that supply the majority of our immigrants, such as India and the Philippines, run large queues at any given time simply due to the volume of files that they process.
Islamabad 5119
New Delhi 3959
Singapore 3496
Buffalo 3009
Manila 2851
Hong Kong 2761
Kingston 2147
Nairobi 1794
Damascus 1312
Port of Spain 1279
Beijing 1180
London 864
Colombo 747
Accra 738
AbuDhabi 606
Bogota 592
Moscow 558
Guatemala 487
Sydney 458
Mexico 456
Paris 388
Vienna 368
Seoul 363
Abidjan/Dakar 330
Cairo 319
Havana 313
Kiev 277
Tokyo 271
Lima 231
New York 228
Rome 219
Pretoria 202
Santo Domingo 200
Los Angeles 197
Bucharest 191
Sao Paulo 179
Berlin 170
Warsaw 169
Detroit 161
Tel Aviv 137
Rabat 125
Ankara 115
Buenos Aires 104
Port-au-Prince 80
Kuala Lumpur 79
Caracas 72
Santiago 62
Seattle 57
Taipei 8
Bangkok 4