The number is for the entire past year. I am really not sure about its accuracy. At least, here in our forum we did not have even 1 person whose Ankara's processing time exceeded 13 months (I am not sure about Kazhal whose information was not included in the spreadsheet).
This can be easily explained. When the average is calculated for the whole year, those whose cases were finalized in the first 9 months of 2012 had more impact on the results than those whom finalized afterwards. The point is that that average has been calculated based on the data of the people whose cases were sent to Damascus in the first place; those who applied around spring and summer of 2011.
sadly, it took almost 6-9 months of doing nothing for their files to be sent to Ankara. So if you wanna know how long it took for them in Ankara, just simply subtract 6-9 from that 16 months. It means almost 7 to 10 months was the average waiting period in Ankara.
mehdiR said:
hello everyone
here comes the quarterly processing time update for ankara:
January 16, 2013
still the same 16 months, so no change as some guys here speculated .
:-[