your experience with passport/medical request?

[limanoid]

What's everybody's experience with the timeline between receiving a medical request and receiving the visa?

They just sent an email requesting my husband to send in a new medical, his passport, and the police certificates as they all expired over a month ago. Does it take a long time to process the new medical? Does it go to the processing centre (in Peru it is Port-of-Spain.. I think)  I'm totally refusing to get excited about these requests so that I don't get disappointed by the wait!

[CharlieD10]

I don't mean to seem pessimistic, but POS is really plumbing new depths of inefficiency with the medicals at the moment.  Expect to wait anywhere from another 4-12 weeks after the remedical for anything to happen. 

Currently I know of an applicant from Jamaica awaiting medical information since a re-do in May 2011, another Jamaican applicant just received the request this week to drop off his passport after submitting a re-medical in May 2011, and a St. Vincent applicant being processed through POS whose re-medical request was sent to his lawyer in Canada via snail mail at the height of the mail strike!  Since submitting his re-medical 5 weeks ago, he is still waiting for the request to submit his passport.

In view of all that, I wonder how in heck then POS managed to shave 3 months off their processing time to get down to 14 months from 17 months earlier in the year!  Not surpisingly, Kingston experienced a corresponding 3 month increase in their processing time to move up to 17 months.  So, apparently, POS is now achieving increased efficiency at the expense of the offices that depend on it as regional medical office.  Marvelous. /sarcasm.

[limanoid]

reallllly? oooohhh gaawwd... 

Thanks for the heads up for port-of-spain, no matter how horrible it might be!

[yaz]

Hi Limanoid, I am in the same boat like you but in my case i did not submitted the medical in the sponsor package I did not about it
I was confused, i was so lucky because they did not reject my application because of this, however on july 28 they sent me my medical request Finally everything is done, My ecas is updated already with medical results have been received  from SEPT 9 now  I have to wait for the next step I hope It is my PPR. but how long .. I am tired to wait..

[limanoid]

oops, I never replied Yaz: Any wait less than a year isn't long at all.

Charlie: POS received the redone medicals on Oct 3 and then this Oct 9, Ecas updated to "medicals received". So I'm not sure if that means the medicals were received and processed? If it's both, then maybe those timelines you mentioned aren't relevant on the speed of the medical office but the speed of the respective visa offices?