1- just Lebanon (surprised?)
2- yes long time Anthony hope you have been doing well, answer is: simply cause i am not supposed to.
the thing is since the changes in immigration to canada started a while back has caused disbalance worldwide in its embassies which you are all familiar with, the rest of the world has recovered and picked up the processing pace however they were not affected by the situation in syria nor the fact of mass files transfers to an unprepared/untrained office and this is what the delay is about exclusive and only to beirut office and there is no telling how long it will take for them to pick up the pace and sort out the mess in the files queue. I seriously suggest to all of you to be patient instead of burning your nerves on a brick wall, we are all going , we just dont know which year and after we all leave we will never see or experience such disorder or delays cause simply we wont be here anymore to go through hardship in the most basic civilization functions and services. that is how i keep myself calm in this specific storm. the delay has caused alot of damage in my life in several aspects and all I can do is try to be patient and look at this delay as if it was a passing black cloud.
cheers
as mentioned in my previous post, by the time the files got transferred to the post in leb which,for decades, dealt only with visit and student visas was naturally unprepared/untrained for the new categories, how they managed the sponsorship files later on doesn't say anything about my application as a PR or this entire category .
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