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Owais Iqbal

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Congrats Hattoba! The journey is over for you!

I am still In Process and I am sure there is no issue with my application so I don't know what they are doing. I hope they have not forgotten about my application! :(
That's just how they are :( No reply for me yet. I have requested GCMS notes as well in September. Let's see when they show up.
 
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Han

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That's just how they are :( No reply for me yet. I have requested GCMS notes as well in September. Let's see when they show up.
It is a small office Owais, and I think there are only two officers handling London's office. I saw someone else in March spreadsheet who got DM 4 weeks after test! Seeing that calmed me down! They will probably change it DM when they invite me for oath! And I really hate the idea of calling them since it takes such a long time to get hold of an agent! Ugh ...

I hate saying this over and over again but be patient!!
 
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Owais Iqbal

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It is a small office Owais, and I think there are only two officers handling London's office. I saw someone else in March spreadsheet who got DM 4 weeks after test! Seeing that calmed me down! They will probably change it DM when they invite me for oath! And I really hate the idea of calling them since it takes such a long time to get hold of an agent! Ugh ...

I hate saying this over and over again but be patient!!
I am in no hurry my friend. I just wonder what's going on there. I have waited this long. I know it's not too far :)
 
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Han

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I am in no hurry my friend. I just wonder what's going on there. I have waited this long. I know it's not too far :)
I am not in much hurry either but I don't find it fair! What I saw was a small office and only two officers were interviewing people. It means that if you are the last to finish your test you will have to wait a long time until you get interviewed! I think they need to be more transparent. And it sucks that we can't contact our local office directly! There should at least be an email address or something! o_O
 

Owais Iqbal

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I am not in much hurry either but I don't find it fair! What I saw was a small office and only two officers were interviewing people. It means that if you are the last to finish your test you will have to wait a long time until you get interviewed! I think they need to be more transparent. And it sucks that we can't contact our local office directly! There should at least be an email address or something! o_O
That does suck. But I guess they might schedule an officer's all cases in one day? You might see 2 officers but others might be working on the cases instead of interviewing? I don't know. I do agree that we should be able to contact them directly, but may be they haven't done it because contacting them would increase their time lost to answering questions that a call center can handle.
 
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Han

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That does suck. But I guess they might schedule an officer's all cases in one day? You might see 2 officers but others might be working on the cases instead of interviewing? I don't know. I do agree that we should be able to contact them directly, but may be they haven't done it because contacting them would increase their time lost to answering questions that a call center can handle.
I don't think there are other officers, Owais. I was talking to other friends who went through the same process last year and all of them had interview with one of the two officers I saw! o_O
 
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Owais Iqbal

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I don't think there are other officers, Owais. I was talking to other friends who went through the same process last year and all of them had interview with one of the two officers I saw! o_O
That's really depressing. That would explain why it takes so long for these applications.
 

Han

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Okay I called them. First time, it got disconnected. Second time, I could talk to an agent, he looked into my application and said everything is normal, blah blah blah ...

I asked him to send a note to London and he refused. He said that he could see a note was sent before and my case was escalated!!!!! abd I got invited to the test immediately after the note! Who was he joking?:eek::eek::eek:

So the call got disconnected again and I called for the third time (I know I am going crazy with it!). Another agent told me again that it is normal. Then, she said let me give you a time frame, if by Oct. 17th you don't see a change, call us and we will contact London office. I asked her to contact them now and she refused!

I could get hold of an agent immediately every time I called. I think after 3 pm is a good time to call them!
 

Owais Iqbal

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Hey guys,

I have finally received invitation to appear for test/interview on November 7th. I received the invite on October 4th. I guess it was all scheduled already but they didn't want to send an invite earlier than a month or so. Calling them made them move anyway so they decided to just get it over with.
 
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Owais Iqbal

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Okay I called them. First time, it got disconnected. Second time, I could talk to an agent, he looked into my application and said everything is normal, blah blah blah ...

I asked him to send a note to London and he refused. He said that he could see a note was sent before and my case was escalated!!!!! abd I got invited to the test immediately after the note! Who was he joking?:eek::eek::eek:

So the call got disconnected again and I called for the third time (I know I am going crazy with it!). Another agent told me again that it is normal. Then, she said let me give you a time frame, if by Oct. 17th you don't see a change, call us and we will contact London office. I asked her to contact them now and she refused!

I could get hold of an agent immediately every time I called. I think after 3 pm is a good time to call them!
I think they see a date on your file and know that you will receive the oath invite soon. Just a thought. It will be soon hopefully.
 
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Han

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Hey guys,

I have finally received invitation to appear for test/interview on November 7th. I received the invite on October 4th. I guess it was all scheduled already but they didn't want to send an invite earlier than a month or so. Calling them made them move anyway so they decided to just get it over with.
Congrats man! That's one step forward!
 
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Han

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Feb 24, 2014
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Visa Office......
Ottawa
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2133
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
08-01-2016
AOR Received.
08-01-2016
Passport Req..
20-06-2016
VISA ISSUED...
28-06-2016
LANDED..........
29-06-2016 :)
My status changed to DM today, or maybe late in the day yesterday! I hope it is not a bad thing!
 

Hattoba

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Hey guys,

I have finally received invitation to appear for test/interview on November 7th. I received the invite on October 4th. I guess it was all scheduled already but they didn't want to send an invite earlier than a month or so. Calling them made them move anyway so they decided to just get it over with.
Congratulations body,that's good news .