ad123164 said:
Hi ad123164,
I want to share my experience to you. Me & my cousin applied the same time & we got approval almost the same time also. We are both working in dubai, uae. So in the application we both used dubai, uae as our mailing address & of course current country of residence. When we sent our application to CIO we overlooked where to put the visa office we wanted to process the application. We just change our mailing address to Phils. coz we wanted to process there (my reason I'm going back home by March coz I'm giving birth by April I planned already to stay for good & just wait visa. my cousin's contract will expire by august and planning to go back home also). We've thought changing the mailing adress to Phils means our application will be processed there also.
CIO received our application by February and we got AOR by March. I'm expecting MR by April coz usually Manila is sending it 1 month after receiving AOR from CIO. But its already Month of May & im not receiving anything so I tried to email Manila VO. after a week they replied saying that they are not the one processing my application, its ADVO. I felt really bad coz I know ADVO takes time.
What we did is we tried to email CIO and ADVO to transfer our file to Manila coz Im already here and my cousin is going back home by August. Just last week CIO replied they cannot take any action because my file was already transfered to ADVO. Any further information adressed it to the said office. ADVO replied the other day to me In response to ur request for file transfer please confirm that ur permanently relocated to Phils & not going back again to gulf region. My cousin received also but the response is Your request for file transfer was denied coz she need to be in the Phils.
i hope this will help to enlighten u. god bless