forcabarca86 said:
Hey everybody.
My how things have progressed!
Congratulations to all those who have recently received MRs, PERs, AORs etc.
My heartfelt sympathies to those who have received returned packages due to a variety of reasons. I know how much time and effort goes into preparing an application. Don't lose hope! Try again next year!
And finally, a note of support for people who - like me - continue to bare the agonizing bureaucracy of their visa offices. Trust me, their is no canonized rule book which can allow anyone to predict or understand how visa offices function. It isn't a first in, first out system. It doesn't seem to be determined by which visa office you are at (although manila is exceptionally fast). I guess now its down to individual details and which case represents a priority in the views of an officer.
Till the MR stage, I had been something of a trail blazer amongst the applicants on this forum. Never first (for PER,Payment encashment, RBVO / In process status etc. ) but always amongst the first few. Now things seem to have stalled. I guess being a 25 year old male is less advantageous than being part of a married couple with kids. It certainly gives your points tally a boost. What's the popular view here? Do you think the speed at which our applications are processed is correlated to how our applications compare to others? Does the number of points one score effect the speed at which an application progresses?
Views, opinions and especially concrete information from official sources would be much appreciated!
Good luck everyone!
I am surprised to learn there has not been any update in your application status.
You are right about one thing, there are really no discernible patterns here. It's definitely not a FIFO kind of thing. And if its any consolation, even within Visa Offices, timelines vary considerably from applicant to applicant. I don't think it has anything to do with eligibility points. I think after the PER, it's pretty much a level playing field with each eligible application getting as much importance as the next one. After the PER, I think the work becomes more ministerial than substantive.
Being single-without-kids should not be a cause for delay. If anything, you being single means there are a lot less background checks and paperwork to do.
I am in the middle of a consultancy assignment to help address an organization's declining productive utilization. So right now I cannot help but think the speed of processing in the Visa Offices really just comes down to the individual productivity of case-workers. Maybe some of them spend a lot of time on Facebook while in the office. Or maybe some have been multi-tasked to obscurity. Most of the time, it's a function of proper management. Maybe they should hire me so I can tell them what to do. haha That's my pitch for employment.
On average, Manila seems to be doing faster. But it's not raining visas yet, so we still do not have a view of the end-to-end stats.
Buena suerte.
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