What I saw specifically says students. Check the VFS site, maybe they have more info.
Yeah, it explicitly says students on their website too. The good news is that this means the VACs are opened and working again now. Canada's website where they show the Indian VAC website link for biometric collections now says that they're "Open with limited services" so this is great to hear. Hopefully they announce an opening for spousal biometrics soon too.
Well, if someone wants to try, can't hurt. But I suspect they announced this way for a reason - that for student visas, timing is critical to start of school season. So for now they're probably not taking non-student biometrics. (Probably only for a limited period of time)
That makes sense. One thing that was worrying me was how the biometrics being paused effects spousal application processing. But it seems like perhaps it makes no difference if they only use these biometrics at a later stage eh? With that said, it all may go hand in hand too since if they aren't collecting biometrics, staff actually may not even be in the VAC to process any spousal applications. I hope the processing continues.
Staff in the vac don't process applications. Just logistics and the biometrics collection.
Biometrics are not a pass or fail item, it is only collecting the data so having it delayed until things open up more should not impact application processing.
Makes sense. So even if the biometric collection is closed, the NDVO will continue to process spousal applications you think?
