Hi guys, I asked the lawyer information about my case, this is what he replied.
Sorry this sponsorship is taking so long. As you can see by the attached current processing time these applications are now taking 12 months. This is no doubt to the transfer of resources after December 7 which promises new applications will take now only 6 months. Looks like the older applications like yours were thrown under the bus.
Mexico does not have to reply to my requests for information and in fact after December 7 they are not responding. They will not reply to any request until June when the 12 months have passed. (I am hopeful that this will be done by then but Mexico is a very busy post as it now is the catchment processing centre for the Caribbean and much of South America.)
I tried to access the case notes however the privacy commissioner wants both to sign the new attached form. If you would like the case notes please print a copy, sign it and send it back.
I hope you will understand that the only way we can keep our prices reasonable is to avoid numerous messages and e-mails to the visa posts. I have heard from others in fact that constant badgering of the visa post will ensure delay to your application as they are forced to take the file out of the queue and they may, out of understandable human frustration of a busy office, return it to the bottom of the pile.
Get me the signed ATIP release and I will process the request for the notes. It may give a clue to the delay but I suspect that there is nothing wrong because so far the delay is “normal” Too long of course but “normal”. The privacy office in Ottawa legally has 30 days to respond but Mexico can ask for an extension which is always granted.
Seems like we are gonna wait for a while to hear from Mex VO
