Ashu Bhai,
The following information is for you.
Question asked by you was: under paper file on my notes it says ready for officer review. It's been like that since January. could you please explain to me what that means ?
Response: There are different kind of Reviews that our files goes through.
1. There is a review that needed to be done after the client provides the missing information requested earlier by the visa office. Usually there is a bring forward date to alert the officer that he or she needs to review your file because the right moment has come. If you have not provided the missing information a decision may be taken because visa office did not hear from you after you were given 30,60 or 0 days.
2. A review can also be done on your file after Criminality, Security and Medical reports come back to the visa office. Usually when visa office is waiting for these 3 things to come back there is no need to assign a bring forward date to your file it is a sign that they don't have control on your file until those departments make their decisions. Most of the time you will notice that your GCMS notes comes with a bring forward date which is outdated meaning no one is assigned to work on your file until those 3 things or 1 of these assessments come back.
3. In your case ohcanada15 it is said file ready for review. Did you see the date when your file will be looked at? if you noticed the date is outdated or there is no date at all it means one thing, the interview date has not been assigned to your file yet subsequently there is nothing to review in your file because they know what is in your file. They will review your file when new information goes to them most likely your interview input.
4. When an officer pulls up your file and start reviewing it, sometime he or she can stay with it for 2-3 days depending of what type of job is doing on it. He or She may pull let's say 15 files to be reviewed in 4 weeks, as long as your file is among those 15 files if you happen to contact visa office they will send to you a standard message that your file is with an officer for review. It does not necessarily means your file will be reviewed for 4 weeks not at all, he or she could review 3 files in 3 or 4 days them pull up 3 more files.
5. Remember there is also a queue for files that are waiting for review, if your file is in that queue you cannot help it. This is exactly your situation where it says file ready for review which means it is in the interview queue.
