There is 1 more stat we can add, and by that, we can basically predict processing times. The stat is the number of persons quota for FSW for each VO this year:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/ips/economic.asp
What is did is that I took cells for number of persons in queue for Selection Decision and for Final Decision from Banana's spreadsheet, for each VO, and then divided it by the yearly quota. This is what I got below, for the number of months a new FSW application will spend in queue before medical and visa. The total expected time in queue is the sum of the two columns. Of course this is just the queuing time, it does not contain the actual processing time by visa officer.
Visa Office | Months in queue before Medical | Months in queue between Medical andVisa |
Accra - RPC | 11 | 4 |
Amman | 12 | 1 |
Beirut | 0 | 0 |
Cairo | 1 | 1 |
Dakar | 2 | 4 |
Nairobi | 1 | 7 |
Pretoria | 1 | 7 |
Tel Aviv | 6 | 4 |
Beijing | 1 | 8 |
Colombo | 0 | 0 |
Hong Kong | 0 | 0 |
Islamabad | 1 | 3 |
Manila | 2 | 3 |
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New Delhi | 1 | 10 |
Singapore - RPC | 6 | 8 |
Sydney | 9 | 4 |
Bucharest | 3 | 6 |
Kiev | 5 | 6 |
London - RPC | 2 | 14 |
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Moscow | 3 | 4 |
Paris - RPC | 0 | 12 |
Rome | 4 | 3 |
Vienna - RPC | 5 | 12 |
Warsaw | 0 | 21 |
Bogota | 0 | 7 |
Buenos Aires | 0 | 3 |
Buffalo - RPC | 2 | 20 |
Guatemala | 2 | 1 |
Havana | 6 | 3 |
Kingston | 6 | 12 |
Lima | 12 | 4 |
Mexico | 0 | 2 |
Port of Spain | 15 | 142 |
Port-au-Prince | 1 | 0 |
Santiago | 12 | 0 |
Santo Domingo | 8 | 0 |
Sao Paulo | 3 | 6 |
If we really go to the end of the queue, these stats should be close toour stats in the FSW 2013 spreadsheet in the future. But I really hope we have a "special" queue, just because they promised less than a year to visa(sorry FSW 2011 and before applicants, nothing personal here...)