Canadian Dreams said:
Seen may people pasting replies received from VOs / CIC confirming time period of 2 years or more, I am clear on this 2 years & want all to be clear. The reply was received from VO & when they say "this office" it is local VO only, although all may not have paid fees to VO since single applicants have submitted fee to CIO but dependents & other fees along with docs are submitted at respective VO but I am sure it is a generalised reply applicable to all.
Now breaking their statement "2 years or more" if Docs/fees are submitted in current month last year i.e. Sept 2010 to local VO then minimum time period is September 2012 but when it comes to "or more" then it is infinite.
Just read it again...2 years or more... so u can't even claim for 2 year... it may be 3 years 4 years 5 years or... it may not come till u become medically unfit. They are not closing it by saying will take 2 years but they are keeping it open for themselves so no one claims...
Just playing with our futures.... I am getting frustrated when i think about the fact that MY FUTURE depends upon few decision makers who may not have been in the system if Govt. had changed.
As they are replying that we may withdraw our applications & we are eligible for refund, I wish if collectively all people in backlogs withdraw their applications not only MI-1 but also those who are waiting since 2004, They will certainlly realise how grave is the situation for people waiting with infinite timelines. If should be "MASS WITHDRAWL"
This will simply throw them out of "business", yes this is business they are doing thinking about their profit all the time & in all the ways.
Imagine a person applied in 2005 waiting for his turn in 2010 & then realises that his application processing will get delayed. He finally applies in Fast Track under MI-1 & get stuck again. Re-applies in MI-2 & finally all is in backlog. Since now we have MI-3 on top priority.... How frustrating.
Certainly we need to come out with something legal against CIC claiming money stuck, time wasted & stagnation of our future....
Tuhada Punjabi Baii.... (Canadian Dreams)
I sympathise with your frustration. CIC made a colossal error with MI-1 in not limiting the number of applications so they were taking in far more applications than they had the resource to deal with.
What's worse is, as you say, they offer no certain timeline. "2 years or more" basically means "we don't know we we'll look at your application". If they could offer more concrete timelines then at least applicants would know where they stood.
But whether to withdraw an application is a matter of personal choice. I would always say never withdraw an application until a new one gets to medical requests stage, since if anything happens to a new application you still have the old application as backup. And no matter what the delay - those in the "backlog" still have a foot in the door which may not be open to new applicants.
However, I must disagree that MI-3 have top priority over MI-2. There is exactly the same NOC list and exactly the same rules and criteria. The only thing which changed with MI-3 was the cap limit.
Visa offices have so far only confirmed that applications received after June 2010 (i.e. MI-2 and MI-3) get priority so all the evidence I have seen so far is that it keeps rolling and MI-2 and MI-3 get equal priority, until parliament issue new instructions to visa offices.
But anyway - the good news for pre-June-2010 applicants is that CIC are only accepting a maximum of 10,000 FSW1 applications this year. At one point there were getting over 200,000 per year. So this is a massive reduction and should give them much more resource with which to tackle the backlog.
Best of luck with your applications,
Wayne.