scottishmaple said:
they lose track of it once it leave the UK, you are better sending it with a courier company.
If you enter a Royal Mail tracking number on the Canada Post website, you can track it once the package enters Canada (not before).
Also, utterly HORRIFIED to read of what has happened to Caddboy. Wishing you the speediest processing once you've resubmitted.
I am reminded of a previous post I made...
Deficient said:
I'm one of the few who are >130 days. In many cases there's a reason for it.
In my case I have pending medical stuff being sorted out, otherwise my application looks like it would have been approved in late July (according to my GCMS notes). So I guess once they had finalised and processed/sent the COPR you'd be talking about maybe 60 days for me. That is really fast, but unfortunately the medical stuff held everything back.
Looking at some of the others...
Fhaider appears to be a Pakistani national and the background checks for non-British nationals applying through London typically take far longer. Fhaider was also called to an interview.
s2gordon is pregnant and is therefore not able to complete the x ray for the medical, so presumably will delayed until she can do the x ray.
supergirl116 (britishexpats user) didn't pay the right of permanent residence fee upfront.
JennyFox (britishexpats user) - I can't see any special factors affecting her.
liuminparis was asked for an extra document by London.
CaddBoy - again, can't see any special factors affecting him.
I think that covers everybody whose London timescales are exceeding 4 months now [edit to say - oops, what I mean is everybody who applied in 2012, I didn't check to see if there were any 2011 stragglers...]. There are a couple they're dragging their heels on (JennyFox, CaddBoy) but they seem to be unfortunate exceptions...
Of course we now know Caddboy's application is lost entirely, and JennyFox has since posted on the other site mentioning further documents were requested and, horrifyingly, these also seem to have been lost.
So all of these slow applications have extenuating circumstances involved, which at least tells us that CIC isn't generally going horribly slowly (good news) but as we've found out, paperwork seems to be slipping through their fingers from time to time (awful).
I find it comforting to know that even though there are all these white lines on the London spreadsheet for the people around me, they aren't sitting there with no explanation as to what is going on with their applications. It doesn't change anything for me but it's good to know people aren't in the dark and obviously it makes things clearer for everyone else about what they can expect, etc.
Can you tell I'm trying to look on the bright side here?? :-\
good luck with moving, I can imagine it's getting more real now that you have completed the paperwork etc!
