Unfortunately what you are pointing out doesn't apply to us, yes they have opened a new office on Harrow Road, but it is not for the processing of FSW PR visas. So yes they will have to move offices from Grosvenor square, as pointed out the address to send documents to is Grosvenor square and not Harrow road. Also the only visas processed at harrow road are
temporary resident (visitor visa, study or work permit) and permanent resident travel
none of these are FSW PR visas, I think you might be confusing the
Permanent resistant travel visas which is as follows
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/travel.asp
and not what we have applied for.
My concerns still stand, I expect that they have sold the offices for the money, obviously, and they are going to have to transfer all of the thousands of paper visa applications to the new offices, which is going to take time and will undoubtedly cause a delay, how much we just don't know, could be days but I expect months. We all know when we move house it takes a while to settle in.
Unfortunately everything is pointing to a long wait period,
1)Nobody has heard anything from the LVO (except to say, "your visas application has been received and the average processing time is 25 months) Not 12 months, like some might think.
2)A lot of other visa offices have not only issued MR but have issues visas this quickly, again nothing from London.
3)London has to process a huge amount of applications a lot more than some offices, so their back log is obviously huge.
4)Some 2010/2011 applicants are still awaiting visas and if London is going to clear this back log first, well who knows.....probably years.
5)Finally to top it off they have just sold the offices where all our visas are...........and they ARE going to have to move them all. Every single one.
6)Oh yeah and the 6 month workers strike at the beginning of all this by the Visa staff, perfectly times in MAY/JUNE.......probably the biggest thing that is going to cause a delay. (sorry forgot that one).
I really appreciate everyone that emails the minster, that is all we can do at present and I just hope he reads them and takes some kind of action.
Thank You
