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[Adrian]

It's amazing, the new legislation or policy regarding immigration having been introduced at the end of November 2008 aims at streamlining or should I rather say more prioritizing certain applications within 6 - 12 months. Those of course not fitting the new criteria to be returned to sender as it may be.

Well hey here's a wake up call, and as is everything else in the world once there is an element of human involvement that system then becomes completely subject to an individuals capability or motivation in performing a certain task.

I appreciated the fact that the process would be a long one, and the family made peace with this even before us having lodged our application during April 2008 to the South African High Commission, but in the same breath it is absolutely frustrating having already waited nearly four months, and yet still no communication has yet been received with regard to a decision. Status as per the CIC merely indicated as "in process".

I've consulted my legal guru/ representative, but have been told that it won't even help doing any sort of enquiry, and even if we were to do so, then ten too one no reply would be forth coming!!!

Has anyone else experienced this, or might you have any comment?

 

[Leon]

Yes, you are unlucky that you applied after the rule changes took effect but before they were announced so you already waited 8 months because of that. At the end on November when the new rules were announced, CIC had to attack the mountain of applications that had been sitting around. If you don't qualify under the new rules, your application should be returned sometime soon.

 

[rupeshhari]

Hey Adrian,

your timing will only start after Dec 2008, so in effect your process has only been there for 3.5 months. Is one of your jobs in the ministerial list.

Also while they are trying to get everyone's down to 6 - 12 months, this is more for people who applied after Dec 2008 and I really do think this will only come true for those who live in places like US, Bogota, etc but not necessarily for those living Delhi, Beijing, etc.

 

[Adrian]

Hi Rupeshari, as to your question regarding the ministerial list......thats what has got me so frustrated. My job class is on the list, however as far as I see I don't fully comply to the criteria, i.e.: must have worked in this capacity for longer than 12 months prior to having lodged application.
Unfortunately I only had 8 months, so chances are basically zero. My legal guru's opinion is however that we wait for an official reply from the High Commission, yeah I know I'm being full of grief and he's right I should just be patient, I'm just getting frustrated with the wait.

As to yourself, are you eventually in Canada or are you still in the States?

PS: Applied on the old simplified system and still don't know if these docs are still fine, or am I to have submitted new documentation after the amendments?

 

[rupeshhari]

I am still in the states. Still have studies to finish and my PR process is far from over anyway.

I think the old forms are fine but since you applied in April 2008 when you had 8 months of experience in that job, who knows they might consider the fact that you would have 1 year of experience by the time Sydney looks at it. I read somewhere that they are supposed to take into account the time between application and review but whether they do it, is another question.

Why don't you send schedule 3 forms again to Pretoria HC so they can see that you have more than 12months now. What does your rep say?