nume said:
Hello,
After 7 long years :
, finally we received letter for payment of RFPR and was asked to send passports in order visa to be issued ;D.
Please, can someone answer how long it take for Vienna office to stamp (affix visa) in the passport, and how are the passports returned (what means registered mail)?
Thanks
Congrats! This would indicate that the VO is currently working on older files.
From what I could gather, visa stamping will be done quickly. They even offer a same-day stamping, if you bring in the passport(s) before 9am (I guess), they promise to have it/them stamped by 3pm or so.
If you send the passport by mail or courier, the stamping and returning process takes longer (2-3 weeks I assume). They return passports by "registered mail", which is basically a normal letter:they use the regular postal service in Austria (which connects with your country's postal service), the letter is just "registered", so the postal service is suposed to take extra care (well, theoretically) and the sender might (or might not) get a tracking code.
In conclusion, If I was you and have been waiting for years, I would most probably travel to Vienna myself (rather safe then sorry).
Why don't you repost this in the Vienna thread:
http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/applicants-vo-vienna-please-join-t79097.195.html