Moscow Application Processing Office

[ubernemo]

To those who received POVL letter from Moscow recently:  do they still ask to send additional photos with passport and letter/form to get your PR visa?

Russia USED to require additional photos (2) but does not anymore I think.  Just checking.
Kiev does not require additional photos.

Thanks

[ubernemo]

My wife (the applicant)'s street address disappeared from her e-CAS page.  Nothing changed from mine when I log under my UCI#.

Check yours and report here please.

Based on info from different forums this means one of three things that can happen within a week: request to redo medicals OR request to get new police records OR (hopefully) POVL is sent = PPR = Passport request = visa is coming  

Anyone has any info about this?

Update: today her street address reappeared in e-CAS.

[ubernemo]

Here are some of the BEST times we could compile from the most recent Spousal PR applications who received the POVL from the Moscow visa office. Some of you may recognize themselves as this data was collected from many forums.

Some notes about the first column:

87 days was for someone going to Quebec and possibly having submitted all application in French.  Apparently it might help because few officers can process it so it gets more attention from them.

62 days might be from a *powerful MP* 's intervention. Not sure.

75 days was discussed recently here.  Mr Oliphant's intervention at the PARL CIMM session (March 10 2011) might have helped this case indirectly.

Numbers on the same line are for the same applicant.

# days from AOR to POVL 153+ 87 105 97 62 132 121 147 147 131 103 75

# days from Mississauga to POVL 237+ 161 192 181 194 ? 210 245 256 217 187 180

As official times are calculated from the moment the docs are received in Moscow I added this data (2nd column) to previous table

# days from Mississauga to POVL 237+ 161 192 181 194 ? 210 245 256 217 187 180 245

# days docs in Moscow to POVL 198+ 117 143 121 111 156 169 207 202 175 175 146 203

# days from AOR to POVL 153+ 87 105 97 62 132 121 147 147 131 103 75 187

BTW: is there anyone still reading this thread ?    Please feel free to chime in.

[atethepaint]

As official times are calculated from the moment the docs are received in Moscow I added this data (2nd column) to previous table

# days from Mississauga to POVL 237+ 161 192 181 194 ? 210 245 256 217 187 180 245

# days docs in Moscow to POVL 198+ 117 143 121 111 156 169 207 202 175 175 146 203

# days from AOR to POVL 153+ 87 105 97 62 132 121 147 147 131 103 75 187

BTW: is there anyone still reading this thread ?    Please feel free to chime in.

Haha, I check this thread out at least once or twice a week!

This table is great. It means that my wife may get her visa by December! Thanks for whoever made it!

[ubernemo]

This table is great. It means that my wife may get her visa by December! Thanks for whoever made it!

You're welcome! 

[Wa1ting]

My wife (the applicant)'s street address disappeared from her e-CAS page.  Nothing changed from mine when I log under my UCI#.

Check yours and report here please.

Based on info from different forums this means one of three things that can happen within a week: request to redo medicals OR request to get new police records OR (hopefully) POVL is sent = PPR = Passport request = visa is coming  

Anyone has any info about this?

Nothing changed on ours - maybe just a database glitch?

[ubernemo]

Nothing changed on ours - maybe just a database glitch?

That's what I first thought but researching forums showed me a probable correlation between address disappearance and one of 3 actions above. I think this is due to the fact that the database record is locked during modifications by visa officers.  It shouldn't be blocked for read access, but maybe the system is designed to make sure that half-modified data cannot be accessed/read during modifications.
If this is only quirky statistics I hope we will part of them 

[Wa1ting]

Address disappeared today, gone for last several hours...

[Anna_sol]

do you have a spreadsheet for this thread?

[ubernemo]

Someone going to Quebec (like us) just set a new processing record for Moscow office:

PRV Application sent to Mississauga: Apr 26 2011
Documents in Moscow: Jun 04 2011
AOR: Jun 24 2011

# days from Mississauga to POVL: 115  
# days docs in Moscow to POVL: 76  
# days from AOR to POVL: 56  

What is going on at the Moscow office ? ? ?

[Anna_sol]

those numbers look like magic numbers to me 
that cant be true. Moscow goes with snails steps as usual

[ubernemo]

those numbers look like magic numbers to me 
that cant be true. Moscow goes with snails steps as usual

I think that these numbers are indeed erroneous in some way.
OTOH the shortest AOR-POVL time so far was 62 days.

[ubernemo]

Address disappeared today, gone for last several hours...

You got POVL?  Congrats!!

That proves my theory: address disappearing = POVL on the way.
So far it worked for 3 of the 4 cases where address disappeared in the last week or so. WE are the 4th case

[fazimy]

Hello fellows, I am sponsoring my wife from Quebec and she lives in Tajikistan(former USSR). It has been almost 4 months since AOR. I was there with my wife for the summer holidays and we also sent some additional proof of relationship. She has not received anything. E-cas only says 'Application received'. I am worried 

[Donhollio]

Received application on January 25 2011

Processing application on June 24, 2011.
 
Medical results have been received.

Paid the residency fee June 28 2011

 I don't want to make anyone feel bad, but I know a guy who took 15 months to get his wife here from Russia.  I'm hoping none of use will be that long. A few people told me once they ask for the fee the wait is very short. Six weeks in my world isn't very short. have others here paid the fee only to wait a long time?