Hi everyone. Good news. Got SA this morning Australian time. My concern though is my application is now being sent to Ottawa, rather than Sydney Australia. Why would they do that? What is Ottawa like for processing times? Cheers
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On the cic website i found this:
Why did processing times information change?
Prior to December 31, 2015, processing times for many of our services were displayed by visa office. This was useful when applications for permanent or temporary residence were always processed by the nearest visa office. However, we now have the ability to move applications around our global network to ensure they are processed as efficiently as possible. This means your application may not be processed at the office closest to where you live.
For many services, instead of asking about your nearest visa office, you are now asked for your country of residence. This provides you with a more accurate processing time. For other services, you may see a single processing time, no matter where you live. This is our commitment to process applications within that time. These processing times are updated on a weekly basis.
Does this means that they will now move the files to different visa offices?