er.satnamsinghbhullar said:
Many thanks Lazybone...
I have seen that FSW outland applicants have longer processing time as compared to PNP. I have LMIA.. Will it b a plus point or nothing like that
firstly processing times have nothing to do with the category you applied under...but it has everything to do with the VO...
incase of fsw outlanders....before london VO and accra VO had a high processing speed...even today incase of some applicants...now, most fsw outlanders from march-april-may are from india...NDVO was slower earlier in the year but recently picked up..which is good news...on balance, sgvo is the slowest....
other than the PNP and LMIA helping you out with points, when you apply under a PNP, most of the verification is already done at PNP level which results in faster processing at VO level which is not the case with LMIA...
coming to processing times-in order to assess/predict processing times, there are a lot of factors...
Factors that affect application processing times
applicant factors-personal details, travel history(pccs, no of countries travelled), military service
application factors- workload redistribution,not paying rprf upfront, VOs, passport renewal, etc
these factors make every application unique..by and large...go by the 5-6 month timeline cic has given you and you should be fine....
hope this helps!