sset12 said:Hi folks, this is just an FYI...
Here's the excerpt from the operating manuals pertaining to "File Transfer".
For assessment purposes, visa offices receiving a transferred file must respect the original date
on which the application was received as the “lock-in” date. For processing purposes, all
processing steps for the files transferred to an office, including the scheduling of interviews,
should be the same as for all other applications received in the office on the date corresponding to
the “lock-in” date of the received file. This means that an application that is received in Paris in July 2002 and transferred to New Delhi in March 2003, would enter the New Delhi queue as of
July 2002. See also Section 5.24 Lock-in date.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/manuals/op/op01-eng.pdf
Based on the above procedure, it seems that we can also consider the AOR date from CIO as the start of the processing period of our application and not the AOR date from our respective local VO. However, the processing timeframe still depends on the capability of each VO.
That's a good find Sset12