bonitanita said:
It really upsets me to check in on this forum and not hear/read good news. I am sad for my fellow may applicants who are still waiting for stage one. Especially when applicants in June/July are getting approvals daily.
This is SO WRONG.
I think we need to take some proactive action. If we all join forces and sign a petition or letters or something then maybe we can do something. If one person is calling here and there complaining, they're going to ignore them. If we act together and express our problems as a group, who knows, they might do something.
We all agree that applications should be processed in order right?
We also agree that certain visa offices need to act faster. Seriously, waiting 7 months or longer for stage two is not acceptable and there should be no reason for it.
We all agree that the fees are considerably high considering the lack of support applicants are given.
And, we all agree that ECAS is flakey.
I think we need to act. Together. If people keep grumbling on here and every now and again on the phone to agent, nothing will change ever.
Any ideas? Anyone interested in taking some real, positive action?
It is terrible that May applicants have been treated the way they have (Especially May applicants between 1st May- 15th May, it does seem everybody after 15th May got preferential treatment. Sure they split May applications up between 2 processing centres)
Until those who are left have some form of decision/ closure on why they are still open on stage 1 it is hard to know what to do. Perhaps those left dont qualify in the eyes of CIC, I don't know but without a decision then it is hard to berate them if these people then after we petition are refused sponsorship on inaddmissibility.
Forums like this 1 keep us all sane and help us along our road to the holy grail, what we have worked so hard for. We can comfort each other, guide each other and the bit CIC probably dislikes the most is compare our applications , which on the evidence seems like a similar case.
Cases should have been processed in order for stage 1, I agree 100% with that statement BUT some cases require further delving in to certain people's applications and whether they are qualifying with their application, the knock on effect of that is whilst they deliberate over certain cases, do they move forwards with others who have applied after them? (I realise May was all over the shop and obviously this was not the case with all of these applications)
Stage 2 is a completely different scenario because applications are processed as received by VO (which is correct but the fact stage 1 was such an abomination compounds those that suffered so harshly in stage 1 (May 1st - May 15th). 7 months is by far and away too long, obviously longer for people who have harder background checks, are not from specific countries (Seems to me that people from Sydney, ND, London, Beijing and Manilla have their cases approved far faster than a lot of other VO'S). Whether CIC says it or not they have preferential treatment for immigrants from certain countries.
As for fees, for the service you receive, it is frankly disgusting. I have no qualms in paying $1040 for an application but what I expect/ expected was a lot more than what we have received, we are kept in the dark, with absoloutely no updates whatsoever. How can people prepare for another life when CIC keep people's lives in limbo and if you try to find answers you are met with a wall of silence. This is something I would expect had I applied to immigrate to a communist country. ECAS is pretty much a non-entity, all it does is update information after you already know about it (in the cases of people who were informed about their application via postal mail, as was my case).
As for acting upon what we have all seen with our own eyes, how do we go about trying to reform change, we are not Canadian, we have very little rights and they damn well know this, so they do as they please. I am open to suggestions so others after me can benefit from a more fair system. Sadly I think our protest/ plea's will fall in deaf ears.
Good luck everybody and be strong!
If I was going for positives I would join a 'happy forum' if those exist
