Sponsoring Parents and Grandparents - Wait times

[FlashG]

Hi,

If there is a current thread on this, sorry, please advise. If not, here goes...

My wife and I will be sponsoring her parents from China to immigrate. I looked at the CIC website and am surprised now at the wait times. My understanding earlier was it would take about 5 years. However now I noted the following information:

Step 1 = 46 months
Step 2 = 58 months (Beijing)

Total PR approval time = 104 months = almost 9 years

Is this really the case?
Why would the Hong Kong office have the lowest Step 2 time of only 12 months?
Anybody else doing parental sponsorship and can comment on this situation ?

Below is an example for some countries from the CIC website. Remember to add Step 1 (46 months).

Asia and Pacific
Visa Office Processing Times
IN MONTHS
(based on a complete application package)
Beijing – China 58
Colombo – Sri Lanka 65
Hong Kong – China 12
Islamabad – Pakistan 63
Manila – Philippines 61
New Delhi – India 63
Singapore – Singapore 64
Sydney – Australia 22

Europe
Visa Office Processing Times
IN MONTHS
(based on a complete application package)
Bucharest – Romania 57
Kyiv – Ukraine 57
London – United Kingdom 65
Moscow – Russia 61
Paris – France 60
Rome – Italy 62
Vienna – Austria 62
Warsaw – Poland 55

Thanks

 

[scylla]

There's an existing and very active thread on this subject below that discusses older applications (pre-2014).

http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/parents-sponsership-joine-here-t91654.19695.html

No one knows what the processing times will be yet for newer applications (i.e. 2014 forward). Anything anyone says right now would just be a guess. Although it is supposed to improve over pre-2014 processing times.

 

[FlashG]

Thanks Scylla, I knew there must be an active thread !

 

[user828]

So far its avg;s 4-7 years, ur app will go to in 2015, who knows how much backlog is left but I can safely safely say it would still be 4-6 years