guys i just got off the phone with an agent in the consulate section of The foreign affairs department and he told me the embassy is not closed and they are operating, he said obviously its not like before because of the situation but he said its impossible for an embassy to CLOSE without the FAD knowing first and without the news being spread, he also told me chances are CIC isnt going to call or email people one by one to let them know because its time consuming but they will post a RELIEF bulletin advising people what is happening , and he told me rumors are just rumors, he said some agents that answer the phone have no idea so they just say whatever but he said even if the CIC has decided to transfer some files to neighboring missions/consulates the embassy isnt going to close, they are just sending files over to lighten the load a little bit for new files coming in, but he assured me as of sunday January 29 2012 the embassy will be open regulating like before,
so yeah pretty much what all this means is that CIC is trying to send some files to other countries to speed things up and what i also found out is that some people wont even know which country their file was processed in, this means at the end of the day it ends up back in damascus UNLESS there is a official closure which isnt happening at the moment, and one last comment, when they send files over, there is no delay at all, like i remember someone asking if they take files to Lebanon is it going to be delayed, the answer is no,
Just though id share this to brighten up the situation a little bit