Help: What should I expect after my credit card being charged?

[liherb]

I've sent my application package to CIO with my credit card information, and I checked yesterday that a $550 fee has been just charged. However, I haven't heard anything from CIO yet. What should I expect next? Does this fee charge mean anything (positive or negative or purely neutral)? How long should I be waiting?
Any reply would be welcomed. Many thanks.

[Thalia]

The CC charge gives no per or ner. It just means that they put your application in process, you are one of the 1000 applications they are going to process under your NOC. If you look at the spreadsheet https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?authkey=CLDXsFA&hl=ar&key=tlbJsa0NlV-nFVmQca8Apzg&rm=full&authkey=CLDXsFA#gid=0  you will see when you will be waiting for a PER. e.g. the most recent average for PER since they encashed your fees, is 27-35 days. So if you got charged yesterday then you will wait for your PER around the end of May. 

good luck 

[liherb]

The CC charge gives no per or ner. It just means that they put your application in process, you are one of the 1000 applications they are going to process under your NOC. If you look at the spreadsheet https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?authkey=CLDXsFA&hl=ar&key=tlbJsa0NlV-nFVmQca8Apzg&rm=full&authkey=CLDXsFA#gid=0  you will see when you will be waiting for a PER. e.g. the most recent average for PER since they encashed your fees, is 27-35 days. So if you got charged yesterday then you will wait for your PER around the end of May.  

good luck  

Thanks Thalia. Is there going to be an AOR before PER after my credit card has been encashed? Or I won't hear anything from CIO until PER? Thanks.

[Thalia]

Well if I also understood correctly so far (I'm also new around this whole process) AOR you will receive from your VO after they will receive your app from Sydney. CIC won't give you one.
So the first thing you are waiting for is your PER through e-mail by CIC in about a month. No other contact till then.

[liherb]

Well if I also understood correctly so far (I'm also new around this whole process) AOR you will receive from your VO after they will receive your app from Sydney. CIC won't give you one.
So the first thing you are waiting for is your PER through e-mail by CIC in about a month. No other contact till then.

Thanks very much. One more question, is it very normal for a NER? Or it is relatively rare and not extremely strict?

[makica]

... e.g. the most recent average for PER since they encashed your fees, is 27-35 days...

I think it depends on the office to another office. For instance, in VO Vienna, it seems to me that are not so quick as those of New Delhi. Look at the int_tracker and you will see how quickly they working. I hope that I, and everyone else, get PER faster, as now seems to have a little speed up the process.

[Thalia]

Wish it was very rare, but no it can happen. This has to do with your application. They will calculate your eligibility points, work experience etc. If they find them all fine then you will get your PER. If you see on the spreadsheet under "Returned applications" you will see some of the most common reasons to get a rejection.