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[jarry96]

Effective January 28, 2013, the Visa and Immigration Section at the Canadian Embassy in Seoul is closed. All permanent resident applications previously submitted to the visa office in Seoul will now be processed in Manila.

If more staff are not hired in Manila this can be expected to further slow processing.

 

[scos]

I like that story! That's a good bedtime story Where did you hear it?

Effective January 28, 2013, the Visa and Immigration Section at the Canadian Embassy in Seoul is closed. All permanent resident applications previously submitted to the visa office in Seoul will now be processed in Manila.

If more staff are not hired in Manila this can be expected to further slow processing.

Ooo! A plot twist! So the evil federal budget cutters just threw more work on the poor overworked and stressed CEM workers?

Never fear! Any minute now a beautiful fairy princess will appear and with a song and dance magically clear the backlog and grant visas for us all.

GO FAIRY PRINCESS!!!

 

[jarry96]

Here is the link to the full CIC notice:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/notices/2013-01-28.asp

 

[jarry96]

The CIC notice tries to downplay the budget cutting aspect with an upbeat twist about modernization. :

 

[truesmile]

Never fear! Any minute now a beautiful fairy princess will appear and with a song and dance magically clear the backlog and grant visas for us all.

GO FAIRY PRINCESS!!!

Where is that "savior" now anyway? The one insisting that we all apply "inland" . . .

 

[goldenkagi]

I like that story! That's a good bedtime story Where did you hear it?

I hope it ends with, "And they all lived happily ever after!"

 

[scos]

Oops, misread the message and got the wrong VO. Color me embarrassed... :-[

 

[Steph C]

This really sucks
I guess the government knows they can hire Filipinos to work for half the price.. this is the real outsourcing. The VO should be able to understand the culture the applicant is coming from to put the relationship in context. This made a bit of sense with Japan, seeing how there are so many Japanese speakers and foreign workers in the Phils. But Korea Aside from the numbers of Koreans you see in the Philippines it doesn't make a lot of sense.
I read somewhere that a couple years ago they did huge amounts of renovation to the Manila visa office to supposedly help streamline TRP applications. The cost was astronomical, and they only hired a few extra people. Maybe they were planning this for a long time.

 

[CanadianJeepGuy]

Effective January 28, 2013, the Visa and Immigration Section at the Canadian Embassy in Seoul is closed. All permanent resident applications previously submitted to the visa office in Seoul will now be processed in Manila.

If more staff are not hired in Manila this can be expected to further slow processing.

More bad news for the victims of this Federal Government.
Remind your spouses not to vote Conservative if they ever become citizens.

 

[truesmile]

Hmmm, I am sure the Liberals are going to get RIGHT ON that!

 

[CanadianJeepGuy]

Hmmm, I am sure the Liberals are going to get RIGHT ON that!

I don't recall VO's being closed or downsized during any of the Lie-beral governments. They have a tendancy to expand government rather than cut it back...and line their pockets along the way.

 

[scos]

Here I thought I would be moving a fair number of Korean applicants to the spreadsheet. Total moved: 0. Looks like everyone (like 3 or 4) who were on the monthly sheets in 2012 all got their COPR and moved on.

So we can hope that the extra load won't be too much.

 

[truesmile]

ZERO applicants!? Geez, now why on earth would they close that office??

 

[CanadianJeepGuy]

ZERO applicants!? Geez, now why on earth would they close that office??

This forum may not be a true representation of the total applicants pending descisions. A Korean woman I know here sponsored her neice and her neice's husband. It took them 5 months.

 

[scos]

I didn't mean there were 0 processed by the VO. Just 0 listed on spreadsheets here. There just aren't a lot of people on this site going through that VO.