I haven't been on in a while but a big congratulations to all of you who have received good news from Vienna. That must be a great feeling!
To the newest members in waiting, I would just like to encourage you to hang in there. Vienna really seems to be picking up the pace. Also, from my recent experience, I would also encourage you to check your email junk mail as often as you check your inbox.
Here's what has happened to us and I hope that this doesn't happen to anyone else. I am sponsoring my husband from the Czech Republic. We received a doc. request, in one single email, on January 9th, 2014 asking for the permanent residence fee, an updated schedule A, and an updated police certificate. All documents were sent to Vienna by the end of January and the fee was paid the day after the request. There were no further messages from Vienna. Our 14 months passed on May 1st. We then started emailing Vienna. They responded to my husbands email this past Friday saying that they were waiting on the medical that they had requested. My husband nor myself never received a medical request! I will add that we took it upon ourselves to do a new medical in November 2013 since ours had expired a few months prior. Good idea, bad idea...I'm not sure.
I decided to check MY junk mail yesterday afternoon after we found this out and sure enough, there was a message from April 9th, 2014 addressed to my husband telling him that they have been waiting for the new medical and wondering if he had done it? My husband never received the email! Even though he is the applicant, they sent me the email. Why? His email is obviously on file as he has received all other messages.
Bottom line...so much time has been wasted. Vienna communicates using 3 different email addresses. I am grateful that we are back on track but we are in disbelief over this process. The email in my junk mail had a different address then all the previous emails. I just think that if this could happen to us, it can happen to others. Take the time and check! We learned the hard way.
Oh, and Vienna still wants a ANOTHER new medical. This makes 3. We hope this is it.