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canada visitor tourist visa from germany & austria update september

mjaffer53

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My friend applied online through the IRCC Portal from Hungary for tourist visa (will be processed in austria office). They submitted thier application on Aug 17 and Biometrics was submitted on Aug 25. Application is stuck in "background check" ever since.

What's your application story? I think the Ukraine crisis is really holding back visitor visas for other nationalities in that area.
 

jOnh13

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My friend applied online through the IRCC Portal from Hungary for tourist visa (will be processed in austria office). They submitted thier application on Aug 17 and Biometrics was submitted on Aug 25. Application is stuck in "background check" ever since.

What's your application story? I think the Ukraine crisis is really holding back visitor visas for other nationalities in that area.
same i applied from germany backround check status
 

mjaffer53

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canuck78

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My friend applied online through the IRCC Portal from Hungary for tourist visa (will be processed in austria office). They submitted thier application on Aug 17 and Biometrics was submitted on Aug 25. Application is stuck in "background check" ever since.

What's your application story? I think the Ukraine crisis is really holding back visitor visas for other nationalities in that area.
The majority of European countries don’t require TRVs but yes CUAET applications are overwhelming the European processing centres.
 
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mjaffer53

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Feb 18, 2014
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March 2015
VISA ISSUED...
April 2015
LANDED..........
April 2015
Applications aren’t usually processed in Austria. Warsaw is the major processing centre.
So my friend who applied from the IRCC online portal from Hungary is not a European citizen and needs a TRV to visit Canada. She has a full time job in Hungary with a valid work permit and bank accounts to back it all up. Hence i assumed it wouldn't be a major hassle getting this TRV. She has been waiting since Aug 17 and its been on "background check" ever since. These CUAET applications have really backed everything up, its just super frustrating for us.

Also i assumed the processing center would be in Austria since its the closest to Hungary. Did not know it would be Warsaw. Good to know, thank you.
 

Ololosh

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So my friend who applied from the IRCC online portal from Hungary is not a European citizen and needs a TRV to visit Canada. She has a full time job in Hungary with a valid work permit and bank accounts to back it all up. Hence i assumed it wouldn't be a major hassle getting this TRV. She has been waiting since Aug 17 and its been on "background check" ever since. These CUAET applications have really backed everything up, its just super frustrating for us.

Also i assumed the processing center would be in Austria since its the closest to Hungary. Did not know it would be Warsaw. Good to know, thank you.
There are people stuck at Warsaw VO since Feb/March waiting their TRV. London VO is supposed to be swamped, too.
 

mjaffer53

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Feb 18, 2014
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AOR Received.
Feb 2014
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Jan 2015
Passport Req..
March 2015
VISA ISSUED...
April 2015
LANDED..........
April 2015
There are people stuck at Warsaw VO since Feb/March waiting their TRV. London VO is supposed to be swamped, too.
This crazy backlog is really demotivating.
 

mjaffer53

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Feb 18, 2014
161
12
Category........
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
Jan 2014
AOR Received.
Feb 2014
Med's Request
Jan 2015
Med's Done....
Jan 2015
Passport Req..
March 2015
VISA ISSUED...
April 2015
LANDED..........
April 2015
any update family
None unfortunately, applied for gcms notes a few days ago but i doubt they will respond because the processing time has almost tripled since we put in the application so they will just disregard since its still technically within "processing time".