Hey! So I wrote a huge long reply to this as I was walking to the clinic this morning... and my phone deleted it. Ugh.
Basically, congrats on the notes! They seem to be positive and it does not look like they have any major concerns. Mine were similar, as the only concerns were cultural difference (can't help where we were born!) and educational difference (as I'm in medical school). It may buy us an interview, but we did our best to let the VO know in our application that we didn't care about our differences like that and that it was actually kind of refreshing! LOL. We compliment each other. It's crazy how fast that big description the VO writes is finished once your file gets to POS. I would think that it would take a long time for some VO to go through every piece of paper we sent and summarize it. But it seems to happen fairly early. It seems the LONG wait is more waiting for a senior officer to review those notes and for background checks. I believe that what the VO writes in that summary has a lot to do with whether the senior officer a) calls your for an interview/closely scrutinizes your application vs. b) sees a positive summary and just takes a look at important parts of your application/proofs and sends your application to background checks and PPR. So I think it's a very good sign for you (and hopefully me too!)
As for what I will do for now, I don't think there's much I can do. I sent a CSE once I found out my file was sent to a office for review 6 MONTHS ago and I haven't heard anything yet. They just responded telling me it was with the officer and I had to wait. So I wouldn't bother sending CSE as you will likely get the same response (they won't tell you what the officer is doing/waiting for/of if he or she has even touched it yet) and since you're behind me, likely they may or may not respond yet. I'm going to keep ordering my notes every month or every 2 months to see what progress has been made, if any. It would be interesting to see things appear as time goes on! However, if I keep ordering them and seeing nothing happen, I might stop, as that would be depressing!
Right now I'm sitting at almost a year since we filed our application, so I'm really hoping there won't be that many months LEFT before we hear from them and I won't have to order too many notes hehe. Fingers crossed.
It's kind of weird. I went through a phase of massive depression the last little while because it was taking longer than I thought/nothing was happening/I'm almost 30 and just want to start my life with my hubby, why am I being denied that basic right!? And I figured as time went on, I would get more and more depressed. But as you near what you "expect" will be the time when you should hear SOMETHING (realistically 10-12 months), you 1) go crazy again just like at the start of the process, checking email every 2 minutes, checking e-cas, analyzing every detail BUT 2) start to feel HOPEFUL that your day to be together is really close. So while I'm READY to be done this whole process and depressed I'm still in it, I'm feeling more hopeful everyday because I know one of these mornings I will check my email and get a big surprise and that's a good feeling.
Much love to everyone here and I hope next week brings good news for all of us!
) some folks do get that along with another file number. Either way, this will tide me over until the fall when I will order our first set of notes.
