London Visa Office

[SBI]

Dear All,

After 13 months and 2 days the wait is finally over. I got the stamped passports for myself and my family from ADVO on 30th Sept. I would thank this forum and all its members who extended their help, guidance and cooperation from time to time. My experience and learning; the Visa Office and the Visa Officers have no fixed or unified way of working. Files get processed randomly and without any order. Somebody in the forum was mentioning that if we send PCCs after medicals then processing takes more time as they do security checks. Sorry, but that's not correct. I had sent my PCCs from 3 countries on 12th August and on 18th August ie., after 6 days I got PPR. So guys, there is no fixed rule and no fixed pattern. Just a lbit of luck, hope and patience - and you are there. Below is is complete time for your reference:

NOC: 1123
Appl submitted: 28 August 2014 (from Kuwait)
PER rcvd: 14 December 2014
Medical, PCC and RPRF request: 8 July 2015
Medical and RPRF sent (through mail and courier both): 16 July 2015
PCC sent (through mail and courier both): 12 August 2015
PPR mail (which I missed in the spam): 18 August 2015
DM: 20 August 2015

Send CSE to RIH on 2nd September asking for current status of application and PPR and got reply on 4th September with PPR mail. (The same mail which I missed on 18 August)

Couriered Passports (4nos) to ADVO on: 6 September (with Aramex return waybill)
Received Passports and CPRs from ADVO on: 30 September 2015

One more thing. During the entire process, I have raised CSE 6 times out of which RIH answered me 5 times and that too within a day or two. So he is not as slow or reluctant as I used to think he is.

So guys, thanks again. Have patience and keep your hopes alive. If all of us have traveled this far, we will sure sail through in due course of time.

Good luck all.

 

[engrted]

Dear All,

After 13 months and 2 days the wait is finally over. I got the stamped passports for myself and my family from ADVO on 30th Sept. I would thank this forum and all its members who extended their help, guidance and cooperation from time to time. My experience and learning; the Visa Office and the Visa Officers have no fixed or unified way of working. Files get processed randomly and without any order. Somebody in the forum was mentioning that if we send PCCs after medicals then processing takes more time as they do security checks. Sorry, but that's not correct. I had sent my PCCs from 3 countries on 12th August and on 18th August ie., after 6 days I got PPR. So guys, there is no fixed rule and no fixed pattern. Just a lbit of luck, hope and patience - and you are there. Below is is complete time for your reference:

NOC: 1123
Appl submitted: 28 August 2014 (from Kuwait)
PER rcvd: 14 December 2014
Medical, PCC and RPRF request: 8 July 2015
Medical and RPRF sent (through mail and courier both): 16 July 2015
PCC sent (through mail and courier both): 12 August 2015
PPR mail (which I missed in the spam): 18 August 2015
DM: 20 August 2015

Send CSE to RIH on 2nd September asking for current status of application and PPR and got reply on 4th September with PPR mail. (The same mail which I missed on 18 August)

Couriered Passports (4nos) to ADVO on: 6 September (with Aramex return waybill)
Received Passports and CPRs from ADVO on: 30 September 2015

One more thing. During the entire process, I have raised CSE 6 times out of which RIH answered me 5 times and that too within a day or two. So he is not as slow or reluctant as I used to think he is.

So guys, thanks again. Have patience and keep your hopes alive. If all of us have traveled this far, we will sure sail through in due course of time.

Good luck all.

congrats. just wanted to know what issue date was written on your visa.i am trying to know how long it takes them to actually issue it not the time it was returned.
13
months and 2 days....quite good time frame.
congrats once again and best of luck

 

[SBI]

congrats. just wanted to know what issue date was written on your visa.i am trying to know how long it takes them to actually issue it not the time it was returned.
13
months and 2 days....quite good time frame.
congrats once again and best of luck

Hi,

The issue date on the visa is the same date of the PPR mail. ie., in my case the issue date is mentioned as 18 August 2015. However, the landing date is exactly 1 year from my medicals received. ie. 15 July 2016.

 

[aazhar]

I think its hight time now that all RFI victims should observe a minute of silence in memory for him. Because we all believe that he is dead as he is not coming up with any update from a very long time ;D
RIP RFI

 

[Yousif2010]

I think its hight time now that all RFI victims should observe a minute of silence in memory for him. Because we all believe that he is dead as he is not coming up with any update from a very long time ;D
RIP RFI

Yahoooo Hello RFI where are here please, wake up please.
It seems he/she deals with the complicated hopless cases.. i am really start to lose all my hopes. :-\

 

[MNAhmad]

Yahoooo Hello RFI where are here please, wake up please.
It seems he/she deals with the complicated hopless cases.. i am really start to lose all my hopes. :-\

To me it seems RFI is dealing with those 20% of the cases for whom CIC has no processing time mentioned.

 

[umair110]

RPRF Right of Permanent Resident Fee(S)

please tell if i dont have credit card the RPRF can be paid to visa debit card ? and whats the other way can i send bank draft for RPRF to Visa office ? whats the procedure if any one having experience of sending RPRF throug bank draft kindly share with me..
Urgent

 

[muhzahid]

RPRF Right of Permanent Resident Fee(S)

please tell if i dont have credit card the RPRF can be paid to visa debit card ? and whats the other way can i send bank draft for RPRF to Visa office ? whats the procedure if any one having experience of sending RPRF throug bank draft kindly share with me..
Urgent

You may paid using your visa debit card. It is also advised to pay through card as the bank draft will take much time increasing your waiting time enormously.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

 

[Hammad123]

Hi msibai
I have all details same as you apart from SLU date which is 26th August 2015.
My TLU updated on 2nd October 2015 but not received any request from RIH about schedule A - may be becoze I have submitted original Schedule A form starting from age of 18 for me and my wife.
No MR or doc request apart from I send scan pcc which RIH asked me to send original by post.
Good luck and hope we receive some update soon.

you have written in your status upfront PCC.what is meant by upfront PCC and when it can be submitted.looking forward to your kind reply.thanks

 

[stone hearted]

lol ..., I'm a LVO applicant. My SLU was updated on 26 aug , same as many others ... but the fishy thing over here is that ... until yesterday it was displaying that they started processing my application in march .. and today the SLU changed and it says that they started processing my application in feb , lolll ... Does anyone else found or identified the changes in their SLU ??? ... What does this mean ?

Hi dear same is in my case too. Initially SLU processing date was april 15, 15 days after per and nows slu has changed to march 26, 2015, 4 days before PER..........

 

[SANB]

As far as I am aware, if it is under 140/90, everything will be fine. Even if it was over, they normally just get the test repeated.

Thank you for the info.
I am assuming this should not become a showstopper for us

 

[zaheer32us]

Did you visit CIC profiles before they started viewing yours.

For me it is now consecutively around one month that several of CIC staff is viewing my LinkedIn profile. Initially, there were one then two then it became 5 and now Seven of CIC staff are viewing my profile. As you can see from below image:-

OR Click on below link:-
http://oi57.tinypic.com/2eg4hgl.jpg
Whereas there are 21-people in Toronto, Canada area viewing my profile.

Is there anyone else on the forum who is observing such an activity of CIC staff on their LinkedIn profiles.

 

[SANB]

For me it is now consecutively around one month that several of CIC staff is viewing my LinkedIn profile. Initially, there were one then two then it became 5 and now Seven of CIC staff are viewing my profile. As you can see from below image:-

OR Click on below link:-
http://oi57.tinypic.com/2eg4hgl.jpg
Whereas there are 21-people in Toronto, Canada area viewing my profile.

Is there anyone else on the forum who is observing such an activity of CIC staff on their LinkedIn profiles.

Hello George,

Need guidance... I am in a tricky situation!

As mentioned in my earlier post, I completed our Medicals, UAE PCC and paid the RPRF.
But my son who is living out of UAE has not even got appointment for medicals. He may get it in two weeks!

Question is what should i do? Should I send our PCC & RPRF receipt to my VO or should I wait for my son to complete his medicals?
If i send my documents now, will VO wait for his documents to arrive before touching my file? A bit confused here? Also worried about the 30 day deadline for submission? Kindly guide.

 

[managersonline]

Did you visit CIC profiles before they started viewing yours.

No I didn't visit their profiles. Although applied to some of the job openings in Toronto Canada.

 

[managersonline]

Hello George,

Need guidance... I am in a tricky situation!

As mentioned in my earlier post, I completed our Medicals, UAE PCC and paid the RPRF.
But my son who is living out of UAE has not even got appointment for medicals. He may get it in two weeks!

Question is what should i do? Should I send our PCC & RPRF receipt to my VO or should I wait for my son to complete his medicals?
If i send my documents now, will VO wait for his documents to arrive before touching my file? A bit confused here? Also worried about the 30 day deadline for submission? Kindly guide.

Best way is to send an email to LVO with Urgent in subject line. And explain your situation, so that LVO will extend the duration for you to submit the required documents along with Medical of your son.