Hi sis,
Please allow me to explain my thoughts if it was not clear in my previous post. I was not talking about 'annoying CIC with follow-ups'. You have every right to send an inquiry. My point was
WHEN you should request an inquiry.
If anyone sees him/herself out of the trend (processing speed is slower vs. peers who submitted in the same day/week) then s/he should send an inquiry. But if his/her time didn't come yet (according to spreadsheet), I believe there is no need to send an inquiry. For example, I know some people sending CSE after one week of application was delivered to CIC. Or one week after receiving AOR from SGVO. I believe this is considered as 'too-early-follow-up'.
Again, this is totally my personal opinion and nobody has to agree with me.
Yes, it is their job to reply to inquiry emails, but I truly believe that if people utilized CSE and inquiry emails more effectively, it will be a better utilization of their time, they will reply emails faster instead of 30/45 days to reply an email.
For example, my visa officer is the same person who is processing applications, and replying to emails. So I am sure that replying to excessive follow-ups emails will delay her work. During my 6-months processing time, I sent one inquiry email only when I saw that applications received after mine are being processed, I got a reply next day from my assigned visa officer. It was a personalized reply with some timeline estimates (not a generic email saying that your application is in the queue). BTW my visa office is London.
I urge people to do a 5-mins homework by looking into the FSW spreadsheet, understand which dates are currently being processed, if you see your time is due, then of course send an inquiry.
Wish you and everyone here fast processing and inshaAllah we will all meet as a community in Canada soon
