Someone posted on 2015 that her MP made an inquiry and a lot of files are in final review stages but because of the volume, it could take a while before they get PPR.
It is disheartening to see the drastic slow down in processing not only in the 2016 thread but 2015 NDVO threads. I could honestly live with seeing activity and progress at least on the 2015 thread to show NDVO is working and they are making an effort to get files sorted and closed quickly so the back long is lessened- would give me hope that 2016 files would be processed in a timely manner. There are loads of people waiting from 2015 who are awaiting final approval with everything else approved/passed.
I understand festival holidays slows things down and in India we have a lot, but these festivals have lock in holiday dates known a year in advance - why can't they organise their staffing accordingly so things don't screech to a halt so drastically and cause files to continue to pile up, creating more backlogs. Then of course there is the Xmas-New Year holidays which will mean almost no activity since most Canadian staff go away. Every other thread from other VOs are seeing rapid progress - Manila, Abu Dhabi, Nairobi, Singapore, London etc - I just don't get the work ethic or professionalism of staff at NDVO in CIC, nor their resource and time allocation mechanisms.
