Foreign Service - Strike?

[Nell1236]

The newest thing is the union's condolences for the death of a 29 year-old PAFSO worker who was sadly in the cross-fire at the mall in Nairobi.

I don't see any condolences from the government or any notice in the newspaper yet, which is pretty nasty.

 

[Dan_from_Surrey]

The newest thing is the union's condolences for the death of a 29 year-old PAFSO worker who was sadly in the cross-fire at the mall in Nairobi.

I don't see any condolences from the government or any notice in the newspaper yet, which is pretty nasty.

Agreed I was just at PAFSO's Facebook page and they have a write up on it there as well. I guess Harper is to busy making friends with that crack head Rob Ford in TO right now, to worry about on of our own getting killed overseas. Once again, shows the Con's indifference to the people of Canada.

 

[Catou]

http://pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?category=3&featureId=6&pageId=49&id=5677

Off-topic. This is the Prime Minister's statement on the Nairobi terrorist attacks and has nothing to do with the strike.

 

[nanediniz]

Removed

 

[seoulcanada]

Can someone give a summary of this strike? Who on this board it affects and how?

 

[costaudjoe]

Can someone give a summary of this strike? Who on this board it affects and how?

Pretty much most people who applied outland.

 

[gongdi]

Pretty much most people who applied outland.

Lesson learned. Always lie to VO by telling them your spouse is just traveling to Canada temporarily and then apply inland.

 

[mikeymyke]

Off-topic. This is the Prime Minister's statement on the Nairobi terrorist attacks and has nothing to do with the strike.

One of the dead Canadians was a VO officer

 

[ism45]

I don't understand! Every one is talking about the strike, and at the same time I see a lot of people have received their visas from march and April 2013!

So is it really the strike killing the process or not!

 

[Passport2Canada]

I don't understand! Every one is talking about the strike, and at the same time I see a lot of people have received their visas from march and April 2013!

So is it really the strike killing the process or not!

I think it depends on the applicant and the visa office. From what I hear Manila is cranking them out at record pace, while offices like Vienna are barely processing anything. I'm going through Ottawa, which seems to be somewhere in the middle. I applied in February and got my PPR earlier this month. Hoping for DM with the next few weeks. In some cases CIC is transfering apps from one office to another because of backlogs. I think right now Ottawa is processing mostly US PR apps, but is also processing ones from a few other countries.

 

[nanediniz]

Sao Paulo VO since last week has flooded with PPR's. But it was still since end of may we didn't hear from them. It makes me think that student's visas slowed down everything.

 

[rowdboat]

I would agree that the July mid-August months were focused mostly on processing student visas and tourists visas then probably after a record breaking release of these, they made another record breaking release of PPR and PR visas during end-August prioritizing expiring medical results of the applicants at least that's what I observed from the Manila VO

 

[ramrey5264]

More news about the strike?

 

[niks1]

It ended...10 mins ago...

Settlement Reached...

Posted on Tim Edwards (PAFSO Head) Twitter Account....

 

[MrSputnik]

It ended...10 mins ago...

Settlement Reached...

Posted on Tim Edwards (PAFSO Head) Twitter Account....

Best news ever! Thanks a lot!