X'mas holiday in CIC-M

[Vish]

Does anyone know how long CIC-M will be closed for X'mas holidays? I am planning to send my application around 20th of Dec. Thanks for your help,

Best regards,
Vishal

 

[PMM]

Hi

Does anyone know how long CIC-M will be closed for X'mas holidays? I am planning to send my application around 20th of Dec. Thanks for your help,

Best regards,
Vishal

24/12/10-27/12/10 but there will be a lot of staff taking holidays in the week before and the week after.

 

[britincanada]

Why December 20th? I wouldnt expect much to be done over the holiday period! I would however pay your fees a few weeks before you mail your application..seems to help speed up the process a bit

 

[matthewc]

Holidays don't appear to affect the CPC-M processing time for spousal sponsorships much. It fluctuates but except for earlier this year (when I seem to recall reading they reassigned a bunch of staff to deal with the Haiti aftermath) it stays around a month. If you put in your application mid December, it will hit the front of the line mid January anyway, long after the holidays.

See the third graph here:

http://carroll.org.uk/cic/

http://carroll.org.uk/cic/class/3