Thread for Acrra Ghana applicants

[Forte]

It sounds like you'd have a lot of proof of the legitimacy of your marriage anyway.

I sure do hope so. I live in the US while she lives in Canada though. So it's not like are living together. However, we've dated for quite a while and cic granted me a visa to visit her which I take as a good sign.

 

[RoamingSpirit]

I sure do hope so. I live in the US while she lives in Canada though. So it's not like are living together. However, we've dated for quite a while and cic granted me a visa to visit her which I take as a good sign.

If you live in the US, wouldn't your application be processed there?

 

[Forte]

If you live in the US, wouldn't your application be processed there?

From what I've been reading, it looks like a toss up. But I'll put in a request for my application to be processed in the US as that might work too.

 

[GENEGENE]

Yes oo
It not easy
Will tell my hubby not to send anything and we will just have more patience.

we will hold on to God's pole and keep praying.

i think you should email them saying u will wait till the PPR request or better still ask a lawyer on the next step because they might be very funny and put the application on hold hoping you will reply them with is prove of status.... which is the last thing you need right now cos you almost close to the finish line

 

[GENEGENE]

NO IT DOESNT DELAY, EXCEPT THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THE FILE.
BUT WHAT I WOULD SUGGEST U DO IS WAIT UNTIL PASSPORT REQUEST (REMEMBER HE CANT EVEN MAIL PASSPORT OVERSEAS UNLESS HE'S WILLING TO TRAVEL TO ACCRA) BUT THEY DONT ADD MONTHS TO UR FILE BCOX OF A TRANSFER.

FEW THAT IVE READ ON OTHER THREADS EMAILED THEIR RESPECTIVE VOs TO SAY THEY DONT LIVE THERE WHEN THEY GOT PASSPORT REQUEST, AND IT WAS EVEN TREATED WITH URGENCY.

SO EITHER WAY IT WOULD STILL BE SENT TO VO IN USA/OTTAWA AS LONG AS UR HUSBAND IS NOT WILLING TO TRAVEL TO ACCRA.

TRUE TALK.... IT ALWAYS TREATED WITH URGENCY BECAUSE I ASK FOR A PPR TRANSFER TO CANADA AFTER THE PPR REQUEST AND IT WAS TREATED URGENTLY AS MY MEDICALS WAS GONNA EXPIRE SOON.. THE OFFICER THAT EVEN TREATED OUR FILE EMAILED US PERSONALLY TO KNOW IF MY HUSBAND WILL BE ABLE TO LAND ON TIME AND IF NOT WE SHOULD LET HER KNOW IMMEDIATLY, AND BY GOD GRACE WE DID ALL ON TIME.

 

[umuchima]

Hi HisAma, welcome to the forum.

I understand what you're saying about taking the chance to go to AVO but unfortunately that is not a good idea nor worth its time, or really even possible. Even when you give your passport request they will not allow you to take your passport there to get the visa, you must submit it via DHL. The only time you can go there is for a scheduled interview. The AVO office has a giant case load. They deal with almost every immigration class for these places:

Ascension, St. Helena & Tristan da Cunha
Benin
Equatorial Guinea
Ghana
Guinea - Refugees
Liberia
Nigeria - all except FSW, express entry
Sao Tome and Principe
Sierra Leone
Togo

Unfortunately it's not a casual stop in office and see who's around to talk to you, its formal bureacracy and they deal with 10s of thousands of applications and they will only turn you away, and that will be a receptionist, you will never get past them to the people that matter. (From my reading of past AVO audits, the have about four case workers, that's it. There are other staff but only four people that work on cases.) And they have it set up that way because if it was that easy to walk in and lobby for our cases we would all do it.

This is a difficult journey, I feel your pain, and for the longest time I struggled with the need to do and just feel like I'm doing more to help our case. But I realized I can't do anything. It's in the hands of AVO now and all you can do is have your extra documentation ready on hand if they ask and ready to sign a form if they ask and get a medical when they ask. I often have people ask me "why haven't you gone to your MP yet, haven't you called the office?" Sure I can but it's not going to influence anything. Not now. This process is unlike so many processes that we are used to. In Canada we are free to complain, drop in, lobby and change outcomes in almost anything. This is so different. With this we are powerless.

Sorry to give you an answer you probably didn't want to hear. You're in the house now, and therefore part of the family, and here we support and guide one another despite how helpless we somehow end up. Don't stop being positive though. Patience is key. I've been waiting 319 days. I never thought we'd get this far but we've gotten too far to be sad now. It will be. For all of us, in due time.

Enjoy your time with your husband. Try not to think about the process too much while together. If you have any other questions feel free to ask. We're all here.

You know why I agree with you ..
As at 2012 January. .I know they had only one case officer for processing student visa in Nigeria. .
But why put so much work on 4 people?
With all the money we pay. .they don't want to inject more personal into Ghana office. .it's all political. ...
Is there no way we can call the attention of the PM as one body. .
If not these things will continue like these even for others behind. .

 

[umuchima]

Hi HisAma, welcome to the forum.

I understand what you're saying about taking the chance to go to AVO but unfortunately that is not a good idea nor worth its time, or really even possible. Even when you give your passport request they will not allow you to take your passport there to get the visa, you must submit it via DHL. The only time you can go there is for a scheduled interview. The AVO office has a giant case load. They deal with almost every immigration class for these places:

Ascension, St. Helena & Tristan da Cunha
Benin
Equatorial Guinea
Ghana
Guinea - Refugees
Liberia
Nigeria - all except FSW, express entry
Sao Tome and Principe
Sierra Leone
Togo

Unfortunately it's not a casual stop in office and see who's around to talk to you, its formal bureacracy and they deal with 10s of thousands of applications and they will only turn you away, and that will be a receptionist, you will never get past them to the people that matter. (From my reading of past AVO audits, the have about four case workers, that's it. There are other staff but only four people that work on cases.) And they have it set up that way because if it was that easy to walk in and lobby for our cases we would all do it.

This is a difficult journey, I feel your pain, and for the longest time I struggled with the need to do and just feel like I'm doing more to help our case. But I realized I can't do anything. It's in the hands of AVO now and all you can do is have your extra documentation ready on hand if they ask and ready to sign a form if they ask and get a medical when they ask. I often have people ask me "why haven't you gone to your MP yet, haven't you called the office?" Sure I can but it's not going to influence anything. Not now. This process is unlike so many processes that we are used to. In Canada we are free to complain, drop in, lobby and change outcomes in almost anything. This is so different. With this we are powerless.

Sorry to give you an answer you probably didn't want to hear. You're in the house now, and therefore part of the family, and here we support and guide one another despite how helpless we somehow end up. Don't stop being positive though. Patience is key. I've been waiting 319 days. I never thought we'd get this far but we've gotten too far to be sad now. It will be. For all of us, in due time.

Enjoy your time with your husband. Try not to think about the process too much while together. If you have any other questions feel free to ask. We're all here.

You know why I agree with you ..
As at 2012 January. .I know they had only one case officer for processing student visa in Nigeria. .
But why put so much work on 4 people?
With all the money we pay. .they don't want to inject more personal into Ghana office. .it's all political. ...
Is there no way we can call the attention of the PM as one body. .
If not these things will continue like these even for those coming behind

 

[umuchima]

Hi there. AVO is processing at about 10.5 to 12 months right now. that includes hearing from AVO for extra documentation and sending it in and waiting for PPR.

Wow..went from Average of 9 months last year to 10.5 -12 months. .presently
What happened. .is it that from July 2016,
there was a sudden application increase? ??

 

[umuchima]

Wow..went from Average of 9 months last year to 10.5 -12 months. .presently
What happened. .is it that from July 2016,
there was a sudden application increase? ??

 

[becos]

Wow..went from Average of 9 months last year to 10.5 -12 months. .presently
What happened. .is it that from July 2016,
there was a sudden application increase? ??

I don't know. It's brutal though. I pray I hear from them any day now. We're August. We should be up next.

 

[umuchima]

Are they done with July app?

 

[AnneMariee]

I don't know. It's brutal though. I pray I hear from them any day now. We're August. We should be up next.

nice, almost at the 12months mark. keep fingers crossed.
have u been able to log in online

 

[becos]

Are they done with July app?

Yea they have contacted everyone. Just ninche and Charlie04 are waiting to hear back as far as I know. Then tender has heard and then we're next in line chronologically.

 

[becos]

nice, almost at the 12months mark. keep fingers crossed.
have u been able to log in online

Unfortunately no. Our app still won't link. So annoying. Keeping fingers, toes and everything crossed.

 

[freakyFries]

Hello everyone.

Please I need some urgent info before I officially start panicking :'(

How long does it take the visa office to stamp passport after PPR request (EE - FSW)? It's been over 15days (excluding weekends and public holidays )since my passports arrived their office.

I have an official trip that requires the passports as well and it's been two months since my office required me to apply for the other business visa. So I'm in a dilemma. I was contemplating travelling to Ghana to find out what is causing the delay; just in case there is an issue that they have not gotten back to me on. Lost docs, incomplete info (GOD FORBID!!). Just trying to be proactive and do everything that's within my power.

***My passports have already been acknowledged received at Accra (by Solomon Akoto). I sent them via DHL.

 

[becos]

Hello everyone.

Please I need some urgent info before I officially start panicking :'(

How long does it take the visa office to stamp passport after PPR request (EE - FSW)? It's been over 15days (excluding weekends and public holidays )since my passports arrived their office.

I have an official trip that requires the passports as well and it's been two months since my office required me to apply for the other business visa. So I'm in a dilemma. I was contemplating travelling to Ghana to find out what is causing the delay; just in case there is an issue that they have not gotten back to me on. Lost docs, incomplete info (GOD FORBID!!). Just trying to be proactive and do everything that's within my power.

***My passports have already been acknowledged received at Accra (by Solomon Akoto). I sent them via DHL.

Hi there. It can take different lengths of times, I'm not sure that it is consistent. I would try calling AVO and emailing them to let them know your predicament. That might help speed things up. I know others have been in a similar situation when their work permit somewhere was going to expire, etc, and contacting AVO to give them a heads up that they needed their passport back helped.