London Office PNP Applicants

[monpreet]

Hi All,

I am creating this topic to share timelines, comments and get help for people whose application is being processes at London visa office. I sent my application to CIO Sydney in July 2012. My application is being processed at London Visa office and CIC website says average processing time is 23 months. I did my medical in Nov 2012. Would it really take 23 months for processing?

Thanks.

London visa office tracking spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgW1kU8s_cOadGVpNDFJVVVLUWxkMGg3Qkdic1BxSXc/

 

[supa]

Hi All,

I am creating this topic to share timelines, comments and get help for people whose application is being processes at London visa office. I sent my application to CIO Sydney in July 2012. My application is being processed at London Visa office and CIC website says average processing time is 23 months. I did my medical in Nov 2012. Would it really take 23 months for processing?

Thanks.

Hi monpreet

Yes, it will great to have a thread for PNP applications being processed at CHC London. I think you should create a tracking spreadsheet so we can monitor trends of events. One thing that is sure is that London has a very high number of inventory so it will great to track what's going on there.

Please create the spreadsheet and am sure we'll all contribute to be able to monitor events.

Best wishes

supa

 

[SP88]

Hi All,

I am creating this topic to share timelines, comments and get help for people whose application is being processes at London visa office. I sent my application to CIO Sydney in July 2012. My application is being processed at London Visa office and CIC website says average processing time is 23 months. I did my medical in Nov 2012. Would it really take 23 months for processing?

Thanks.

I will take 6-8 months after a complete application is received at London, this is for UK residents/citizens. The 23 month timeline is for non-residents of UK, who's visa office is London. Hope this helps.

Monpreet, do you have to be a UK citizen to be allotted London as a visa office?
Or if you do not hold UK citizenship but is a UK residence and have requested London on your application you are allotted London. Please advise.

 

[monpreet]

Hi SP,

As far as I know you don't have to be UK citizen, as long as you are UK resident you can get London visa office. I think if you have been in UK for less than 1 year then your visa office is your home country. Hope that helps.

 

[monpreet]

Hi monpreet

Yes, it will great to have a thread for PNP applications being processed at CHC London. I think you should create a tracking spreadsheet so we can monitor trends of events. One thing that is sure is that London has a very high number of inventory so it will great to track what's going on there.

Please create the spreadsheet and am sure we'll all contribute to be able to monitor events.

Best wishes

supa

Hi Supa,

Thanks for the advice. I have created a spreadsheet. Here is the link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgW1kU8s_cOadGVpNDFJVVVLUWxkMGg3Qkdic1BxSXc

Let me know your details via message and I can update.

Regards.

 

[supa]

Hi Supa,

Thanks for the advice. I have created a spreadsheet. Here is the link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgW1kU8s_cOadGVpNDFJVVVLUWxkMGg3Qkdic1BxSXc/

Let me know your details via message and I can update.

Regards.

Hi monpreet

The tracksheet is not opening with the url you pasted above. Could you please check it properly.

supa

 

[supa]

I will take 6-8 months after a complete application is received at London, this is for UK residents/citizens. The 23 month timeline is for non-residents of UK, who's visa office is London. Hope this helps.

Monpreet, do you have to be a UK citizen to be allotted London as a visa office?
Or if you do not hold UK citizenship but is a UK residence and have requested London on your application you are allotted London. Please advise.

@SP88

PLEASE how and where did you get this information that UK residents can complete their canada PR in 6-8 months after a complete application is received at CHC London. I will really appreciate if you can point me so that I can be factor that into my preparations.

Thank you very much as you responded.

 

[babakura]

@ SP88

PLEASE how and where did you get this information that UK residents can complete their canada PR in 6-8 months after a complete application is received at CHC London. I will really appreciate if you can point me so that I can be factor that into my preparations.

Thank you very much as you responded.

Here is the link
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/united_kingdom-royaume_uni/visas/processing-traitement.aspx?view=d

 

[SP88]

Hi SP,

As far as I know you don't have to be UK citizen, as long as you are UK resident you can get London visa office. I think if you have been in UK for less than 1 year then your visa office is your home country. Hope that helps.

Thanks your reply has been helpful.

 

[SP88]

@ SP88

PLEASE how and where did you get this information that UK residents can complete their canada PR in 6-8 months after a complete application is received at CHC London. I will really appreciate if you can point me so that I can be factor that into my preparations.

Thank you very much as you responded.

In a London thread somewhere I think it is "Andrew" who had emailed London about the processing timelines for PNP and he got a similar reply. If you email London they do reply within in about 2 weeks.

 

[monpreet]

Hi monpreet

The tracksheet is not opening with the url you pasted above. Could you please check it properly.

supa

Hi Supa,

I don't know what happened to the link. Try this new link in my signature, this should work. At the moment there is just one entry in the sheet (mine). We should aim to add more people so that we can track progress.

Regards.

 

[supa]

Here is the link
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/united_kingdom-royaume_uni/visas/processing-traitement.aspx?view=d

@babakura - this link only states that PNP processed at CHC London will take 6 months. As we know in this forum, PNP applicants file are spending much more than 6 months london office. You will see what I mean if you check the other forums here. I was referring to SP88 post that UK resident's application are processed within 6-8 months as opposed to residents of other countries (like Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Pakistan) whose visa office is also CHC London.

I can see that your file isl ikely to be sent to London VO as well, so do let us know your timelines.

Best

supa

 

[supa]

Hi Supa,

I don't know what happened to the link. Try this new link in my signature, this should work. At the moment there is just one entry in the sheet (mine). We should aim to add more people so that we can track progress.

Regards.

@monpreet - ok yes, the link now opens properly. Could you add one more column to that tracksheet -"Country Resident" - this will help us to track if there is a difference in processing times for the different countries whose VO is london. Please add my details from profiles under my id.#

supa

 

[monpreet]

Supa - let me know your stream and residence country. I've added you to the sheet. if the details are incorrect, just message me correct details.

 

[supa]

Supa - let me know your stream and residence country. I've added you to the sheet. if the details are incorrect, just message me correct details.

Hi monpreet

Please update my details as follows;

Received at CIO is 23-Nov-2012 and not 10-Oct-12
Country of residence is the same as yours - UK
Stream - FSW backlog

Where did you do your medicals? Anywhere around London? Cost? Experience?

I received AOR 20-Jan-13 and trying to guess when I received MR from London office and also pro-actively prepare for it. Your response will be well appreciated

thanks

supa