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Toronto ASAP

Star Member
Jun 10, 2013
138
1
Category........
Visa Office......
Vienna
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
31-01-2013
Doc's Request.
21 Jan 2014, new PC and Interview invitation
AOR Received.
Stage 1 - 15 Feb 2013, SA 22 Feb 2013
File Transfer...
Stage 2 AOR - 01 March 2013
Med's Done....
11 Jan 2013, 2nd 07 March 2014
Interview........
05 March 2014
Passport Req..
29 April 2014
VISA ISSUED...
06 May 2014
messenger said:
Ok Ok! What can I say!
(It rhymes well doesn't it?)

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OMG what a day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So happy for you and your family Tom! Guys with all this activity lately I wonder what are the chances that they process all of us at the same time, I mean we have different timelines, it's like they woke up after a loooooooooong sleep in the year 2013!

Anyways good morning Vienna! Good luck to all of us!
 

Toronto ASAP

Star Member
Jun 10, 2013
138
1
Category........
Visa Office......
Vienna
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
31-01-2013
Doc's Request.
21 Jan 2014, new PC and Interview invitation
AOR Received.
Stage 1 - 15 Feb 2013, SA 22 Feb 2013
File Transfer...
Stage 2 AOR - 01 March 2013
Med's Done....
11 Jan 2013, 2nd 07 March 2014
Interview........
05 March 2014
Passport Req..
29 April 2014
VISA ISSUED...
06 May 2014
Irsa said:
I am so Happy for you that got some new news from Vienna.

Toronto ASAP:

Can I ask you, how long it took to dedicate your interview day, after they received the updated documents? did you go for interview yet?

for filling out the Schedule B, if our info like previous job details has slightly differences do you think could make a problem for us?
Irsa, they only asked a new police certificate from me at the same time they scheduled the interview for March 05, I should bring it with me then.
About the jobs at Schedule B I really don't know but I'm guessing that what's most important for them are the dates and name of employers and the rest are simply details.

Does anyone know why some people receive visas right after the interview and some wait a couple of months after? Do they normally finish background checks before the interview?

@ Canucksfan I can see from your timeline you had an interview on 19 Nov 2013, what did they tell you than, why are you still waiting? (sorry if you already said it) And please when you have the chance tell me more about your experience bcs I'll be in the same boat soon.
 

Ljiljana

Star Member
Jan 20, 2014
107
0
Category........
Visa Office......
Vienna
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
April 12, 2013
File Transfer...
May 10, 2013
Med's Done....
March 7, 2013
Interview........
Waived
Passport Req..
Exempt
VISA ISSUED...
March 6, 2014
LANDED..........
March 21, 2014
What a day! I am looking forward to more good news like this - it gives me hope :) Thanks guys for sharing your info!!! 8)
 

BC2013

Hero Member
Feb 21, 2012
467
26
LANDED..........
7-16-2014
messenger said:
Ok Ok! What can I say!
(It rhymes well doesn't it?)


I guess maybe it's time to play some lotto because its the jackpot day today!


We too just received an email from Vienna with an attachment requesting extra docs for the baby's birth certificate ( Additional family info) a police certificate from Greece, where my wife now rightfully resides ( if we only had been able a few months ago we would have transferred our file to Rome and be gone by now!
And of course they want from me the sponsor a proof of intention to return to Canada. (Yeah it is called Austerity crisis)
I sent them a work offer last year. Now they want another one. Sheiiiit no problem....I will get one!
And then like everyone else they want all these back within 60 days.
I am in Hungary now and should be flying to Greece on Saturday. As of Monday morning we will start collecting these docs and send them off to them!

Good luck to all and i i hope and wish that everyone here gets the good news.

Tom
Great news, Tom!
 

Avadava

Hero Member
Oct 11, 2013
818
79
Vancouver
Category........
FAM
Visa Office......
Vienna
App. Filed.......
December 3, 2013
AOR Received.
Stage 1 AOR + SA January 8, 2014
File Transfer...
January 12, 2014
Med's Request
Further Medical Tests Requested: October 24, 2013
Med's Done....
October 15, 2013
Interview........
Waived
Passport Req..
October 20, 2014
VISA ISSUED...
October 27, 2014
LANDED..........
January 17, 2015
Congrats to all of you who got news from Vienna, really exciting.

According to the CIC website, they should be updating their processing times soon (hopefully by the end of this week). Last update was Oct. 30. Let's all hope and pray for faster times. It should go back to 10 months :)
 

KKMoe

Star Member
Oct 16, 2012
92
0
Category........
Visa Office......
Vienna
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
22-03-2013
Doc's Request.
01-05-2013
AOR Received.
18-04-2013
File Transfer...
19-04-2013
Med's Done....
10-01-2013
messenger said:
Ok Ok! What can I say!
(It rhymes well doesn't it?)


I guess maybe it's time to play some lotto because its the jackpot day today!


We too just received an email from Vienna with an attachment requesting extra docs for the baby's birth certificate ( Additional family info) a police certificate from Greece, where my wife now rightfully resides ( if we only had been able a few months ago we would have transferred our file to Rome and be gone by now!
And of course they want from me the sponsor a proof of intention to return to Canada. (Yeah it is called Austerity crisis)
I sent them a work offer last year. Now they want another one. Sheiiiit no problem....I will get one!
And then like everyone else they want all these back within 60 days.
I am in Hungary now and should be flying to Greece on Saturday. As of Monday morning we will start collecting these docs and send them off to them!

Good luck to all and i i hope and wish that everyone here gets the good news.

Tom
Congrats Tom and say hello to everybody in Hungary for me!

I am really hoping that they would ask me to go for an interview. I like it better than the idea of getting a new police certificate. It takes forever to get it and costs a fortune to have it translated. But hey, I wish I was as close to the end as you guys are! I wouldn't complain either way ;)
 

Irsa

Star Member
Dec 2, 2013
60
0
does anyone had the experience asking for Schedual B, police certificate and then have interview? Please tell me how long it had taken for you to put you on interview after they received the documents?

do you think how long the processing time takes? is it means they did Criminally and security checks?

Pleaaaaaaase let me know your experience.
 

chala

Hero Member
Mar 17, 2013
275
3
Category........
Visa Office......
Ottawa - LA
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
02-04-2013
AOR Received.
15-04-2013
File Transfer...
25-04-2013
Med's Request
upfront
Med's Done....
09-01-2013 ext till 2015
Interview........
Aug 5-2014 passed
Passport Req..
21-10-2013
VISA ISSUED...
25-11-2014
LANDED..........
Dec 8, 2014
messenger said:
[size=14pt]Ok Ok! What can I say
Tom
That's great news Tom and I am so very happy to see that things are happening for the Vienna group. Finally it seems like this week Vienna has turned a corner. Let's hope that this will continue. Best wishes as your application moves into its latter stages of processing.
 

nada3

Hero Member
Jul 8, 2013
332
7
Toronto
Category........
Visa Office......
Vienna
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
28-09-2012
Doc's Request.
25-03-2013 & 15-01-2014
AOR Received.
14-11-2012
File Transfer...
14-11-2012
Med's Request
15-01-2014
Med's Done....
1st 12-09-2012; 2nd 22-01-2014
Passport Req..
27-03-2014
VISA ISSUED...
03-04-2014
LANDED..........
25-04-2014
messenger said:
Ok Ok! What can I say!
(It rhymes well doesn't it?)


I guess maybe it's time to play some lotto because its the jackpot day today!


We too just received an email from Vienna with an attachment requesting extra docs for the baby's birth certificate ( Additional family info) a police certificate from Greece, where my wife now rightfully resides ( if we only had been able a few months ago we would have transferred our file to Rome and be gone by now!
And of course they want from me the sponsor a proof of intention to return to Canada. (Yeah it is called Austerity crisis)
I sent them a work offer last year. Now they want another one. Sheiiiit no problem....I will get one!
And then like everyone else they want all these back within 60 days.
I am in Hungary now and should be flying to Greece on Saturday. As of Monday morning we will start collecting these docs and send them off to them!

Good luck to all and i i hope and wish that everyone here gets the good news.

Tom
Congrats Tom, great news. They are really on fire...maybe they want to reduce the waiting time a few months :)
One by one, and we will all get the COPR's soon. It's soooo great to see so much enthusiasm in the Vienna thread (finally).
Best of luck everyone :)
 

nada3

Hero Member
Jul 8, 2013
332
7
Toronto
Category........
Visa Office......
Vienna
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
28-09-2012
Doc's Request.
25-03-2013 & 15-01-2014
AOR Received.
14-11-2012
File Transfer...
14-11-2012
Med's Request
15-01-2014
Med's Done....
1st 12-09-2012; 2nd 22-01-2014
Passport Req..
27-03-2014
VISA ISSUED...
03-04-2014
LANDED..........
25-04-2014
BumpAhead said:
It must be the bed purchase hehe i shell to get a new one and try my luck :)))
Sorry im just so happy for all of you who got some kind of response from Vienna, gave me hope, maybe we will get something too.
BumpAhead,
you are next :)
 

BumpAhead

Hero Member
Jan 20, 2014
262
2
Category........
Visa Office......
Vienna
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
22-01-2013
Doc's Request.
12-02-2014 and 04-03-2014
AOR Received.
28-02-2013
Med's Request
Second 17-03-2014
Med's Done....
22-01-2013
Interview........
Nope
Passport Req..
17-04-2014
VISA ISSUED...
25-04-2014
LANDED..........
15-05-2014 finally over :)

Avissa

Hero Member
Jun 10, 2013
311
3
Category........
Visa Office......
Vienna
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
21/08/2013
Med's Done....
29/07/2013
Dear Tom:

Congratz on the good news. I really hope that your wife and your little angel ret their visas before Feb is over.

Dear Irsa:

Not everyone get asked for an interview. Interviews are arranged for applicants than have a a little thing amongst their documents that did not fully satisfy the visa officer. for instance, if you say that you have travelled to places and there are no tickets and pictures to support this. So basically if you have every claim that you've made backed up by supporting documents then they do not ask for an interview. However, Schedule A is a different story. They ask for that quite often. Since I have 2 applications for Canada running in parallel (both here in Europe) I get asked for schedule A almost every few months )it's just an update for themselves and it's a wonderful sign that your visa officer is not slacking. I always send my documents with registered mail from Germany. It arrives within 3-5 days and you have a tracking number that is useful if after a few weeks they claim that they haven't received the documents, then you can reference the info from the tracking number (date of arrival, sent date, and such) and that makes them have to look for your documents that are already there.
 

messenger

Champion Member
Nov 16, 2011
1,636
35
123
Thessaloniki, Greece
Category........
Visa Office......
Vienna
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
26/2/2013
Doc's Request.
28/1/2014
AOR Received.
Stage 1 22/3/2013 & Stage 2 Aug 2013
File Transfer...
27-3-2013
Med's Done....
31-1-2013
Interview........
Waived
Passport Req..
7-5-2014
VISA ISSUED...
13-5-2014
LANDED..........
17-7-2014
KKMoe said:
Congrats Tom and say hello to everybody in Hungary for me!

I am really hoping that they would ask me to go for an interview. I like it better than the idea of getting a new police certificate. It takes forever to get it and costs a fortune to have it translated. But hey, I wish I was as close to the end as you guys are! I wouldn't complain either way ;)
Hi my friend, I am in Sopron and am flying back to Greece on Saturday. Where are you at?

:) Be careful what you wish for. You might end up with interview and a request to bring a Police Certificate. :)
Which country is this that charges so much for a PC? Greece (my country) you can go to neighborhood citizens service office (KEP) and request one. They will supply it to you in less than 5 working days free of charge. This KEP's are government run offices and a Greek citizen may request any legal or government document.
Funny thing is, in my country everything crumbles due to the crisis, but thank God we still have good public services..and free....

Tom
 

NicAnn

Hero Member
Oct 9, 2012
525
7
Visa Office......
CPP-Ottawa
App. Filed.......
March 24 2013
AOR Received.
April 17 2013
File Transfer...
April 22 2013
Med's Request
extended 1 yr
Med's Done....
Dec 15 2012
Interview........
waived
Passport Req..
Oct 10, 2013
VISA ISSUED...
COPR Jan 21, 2014
LANDED..........
Feb 2nd, 2014 EH! :-D
Good to hear of some movement in Vienna! Keep hanging in there! Congrats Tom and Milance!
 

Irsa

Star Member
Dec 2, 2013
60
0
Avissa said:
Dear Tom:

Congratz on the good news. I really hope that your wife and your little angel ret their visas before Feb is over.

Dear Irsa:

Not everyone get asked for an interview. Interviews are arranged for applicants than have a a little thing amongst their documents that did not fully satisfy the visa officer. for instance, if you say that you have travelled to places and there are no tickets and pictures to support this. So basically if you have every claim that you've made backed up by supporting documents then they do not ask for an interview. However, Schedule A is a different story. They ask for that quite often. Since I have 2 applications for Canada running in parallel (both here in Europe) I get asked for schedule A almost every few months )it's just an update for themselves and it's a wonderful sign that your visa officer is not slacking. I always send my documents with registered mail from Germany. It arrives within 3-5 days and you have a tracking number that is useful if after a few weeks they claim that they haven't received the documents, then you can reference the info from the tracking number (date of arrival, sent date, and such) and that makes them have to look for your documents that are already there.

Tnx dear Avissa