can someone plz help me dose the processing time start from when they received the file or from when they start working on it they sent us a email in nov of 2014 saying they received our file but according to the cic sight they started working on it feb 16 2015 so when dose the time they say on the sight start from as well they cic sight said 8 months to do it when we received the notice and now it sais 12 months do we go by the 8 months or the 12 this is for the Poland even though we started at the Moscow embassy they sent it to Warsaw. this is for a family sponsorship for my wife