I really hate to be bringing this news to those waiting but this matters to you folks - the work stoppage has escalated:
. Read the full text of the new release here:
http://www.pafso.com/news_releases.php?newsID=153
News
20 June 2013 - Canada's Foreign Service Officers announce additional pickets in Ottawa and escalated service withdrawals
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Better to keep focus on the end of the journey, and to where your application is now relative to where you were when you started this process. It is another bump on the road, another hurdle, but it will come to pass too.
I do hope that now that with this ever widening impact, there will be intervention coming soon to end this impasse.
/all the best....