FSW Processing Worldwide
Comparing CIC's statistics for FSW files provides insight into when, if ever, files will be finalized. Sadly, processing times for files lodged after 27 February 2008 are generally increasing, but the good news is that some visa-posts are reducing the backlog of earlier files.
From CIC's website, I have compared a previous posting of the twelve months ending on 27 April 2011 with the current posting, ending 26 June 2011. For applicants who applied before 27 February 2008, the statistics reveal that no such files were finalized since April at Beijing, Buffalo, Cairo, Kiev, Lima, London, Rabat Seoul, Taipei, Vienna or Warsaw. Shockingly, CIC set the clock back for London, Rabat, Seoul, Taipei, Vienna and Warsaw from one month in London to an astonishing 13 months in Rabat; i.e., processing time has lengthened.
Surprisingly, in 24 visa-posts processing time was extended for applications filed under the current queue-jumping processing procedure – and who were promised one-year processing – and reduced at only nine visa-posts. Processing in Beijing, London and Moscow increased by three months and Port of Spain, by five months.
By contrasting the creation date of files finalized in June with those finalized in April provides a basis for projecting when an application lodged at a different date will be assessed. The projection needs to take into account whether the visa post is assessing more or fewer cases per month than its prior intake. For example, if the visa post in June was assessing files lodged three months before those assessed in April, it means that, all things being equal, a file lodged six months later will be assessed in four months.
The last column shows when the current "inventory" will have been finalized, but, because the projection presumes no changes in intake, targets or processing priorities, it is truly an estimate. And, for those projections extending beyond next June 30th, all bets are off because everyone fill back one processing tier in CIC's queue-jumping processing priority.
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