techLover said:What is the first activity after e-APR-AOR? In how many days it take place?
johnsyk said:As per current timeline in the tracker, don't expect medical to pass before day 52 if you are FSW!
Tatya_Vinchu said:Oh is it? That sucks! I knew this ITA blast is going to negatively affect processing times.
argieargie said:I'd rather they invite fewer people and process applications faster than invite huge amount of people having everyone waiting for months and months.
xpressentry said:If they havent hired additional staff, they will not stcik to their timelines.
johnsyk said:I disagree. They have always been processing 250,000+ applicants. Earlier it was paper.Now it is EE. The numbers haven't changed much. We think its a lot because all of it is coming through EE compared to earlier where we had no idea about the massive number of paper applicants.
Even though it is taking 50 days to clear medicals, the current trend is that they are still giving COPR before their stated 6 months timeline. Most seem to be getting between 4 and 5 months. So I think they will still stick to their 6 months promise. It looks that way for now.
techLover said:I am afraid, it would be difficult to keep 6 months promise for some busiest VO like LVO because of very huge number of ITA per month.....
DEEPCUR said:Check the EE report for 2016. They have mentioned that draws were smaller because they need to process paper based applications. So even in last year, they were doing like 3k+ applications per draw on an average. And it is pretty obvious that digital applications would be much easier to process than paper based. There will be many automated tools available for adjudication.
By the by, how does one find out the visa office for their application?
From what I have read so far, yes.Wolverine17 said:Does it mean that untill having the medicals passed status no other work is done in the application?