Is it just Buffalo or all VOs have slowed down???

[vermas]

Dear friends,

Not much/significant movement or progress is being reported here since January 2011. What could be the reason? Is it due to Govt's control on annual intake, change in regulations/priorities, slower economic recovery and resultant shortage of employment opportunities? Buffalo VO is always considered the slowest. Even New Delhi, once considered the fastest is also reportedly slow now. Has any one got a clue to the current functioning of CIC?

 

[anumatri]

all VO very slow now ,due to election

 

[canadaforall]

Most visa offices are very slow. Especially those in Africa.

 

[avi_15]

ndvo is very active.. see the post june applicants progress.. bufallo seems to be the slowest

Dear friends,

Not much/significant movement or progress is being reported here since January 2011. What could be the reason? Is it due to Govt's control on annual intake, change in regulations/priorities, slower economic recovery and resultant shortage of employment opportunities? Buffalo VO is always considered the slowest. Even New Delhi, once considered the fastest is also reportedly slow now. Has any one got a clue to the current functioning of CIC?

 

[canada_dream100]

ndvo is very active.. see the post june applicants progress.. bufallo seems to be the slowest

I can see post June 26 people with medical & RPRF on this link....
Pre June are waiting for medical, what is funda behind post June speed?

 

[elmo_25]

Manila VO is still working hard.

 

[JudaN]

NY VO is also slow...........................No updates since Jan.

 

[shar533]

Buffalo VO must be on strike. Absolutely no shake up, no progress, no replies.

 

[Cappuccino]

I can see post June 26 people with medical & RPRF on this link....
Pre June are waiting for medical, what is funda behind post June speed?

Post-June-26 speed is only really at New Delhi and Manila offices.

At other offices such as London, there is hardly any movement on the post-June-26 front. I am a member of a British forum and recently quite a lot of pre-June-26 have been issued with medical requests and passport requests, and by contrast only 2 post-June-26 applicants have had medicals so far. Seems London are not even bothering with 2nd AORs for post-June-26.

So certainly at London, post-June-26 are not getting any priority. But as I say at New Delhi and Manila things are travelling like lightning - we could be seeing the first maple leaves in passports there in a matter of a few weeks.

I have no idea why the seeming discrepancy in priorities or speeds between the different visa offices. I suspect that different visa offices are at different stages with full GCMS implementation and so this is a key factor in why some are visibly slower at the moment.

Wayne.

 

[SFD]

Dear friends,

Not much/significant movement or progress is being reported here since January 2011. What could be the reason? Is it due to Govt's control on annual intake, change in regulations/priorities, slower economic recovery and resultant shortage of employment opportunities? Buffalo VO is always considered the slowest. Even New Delhi, once considered the fastest is also reportedly slow now. Has any one got a clue to the current functioning of CIC?

Vernas

Santo Domingo IO is very slow as well. With pre and post June 26...

Hope some of us get MR or PPR this week.

SFD

 

[canada_dream100]

Post-June-26 speed is only really at New Delhi and Manila offices.

At other offices such as London, there is hardly any movement on the post-June-26 front. I am a member of a British forum and recently quite a lot of pre-June-26 have been issued with medical requests and passport requests, and by contrast only 2 post-June-26 applicants have had medicals so far. Seems London are not even bothering with 2nd AORs for post-June-26.

So certainly at London, post-June-26 are not getting any priority. But as I say at New Delhi and Manila things are travelling like lightning - we could be seeing the first maple leaves in passports there in a matter of a few weeks.

I have no idea why the seeming discrepancy in priorities or speeds between the different visa offices. I suspect that different visa offices are at different stages with full GCMS implementation and so this is a key factor in why some are visibly slower at the moment.

Wayne.

Thanks for detailed reply... hope for the best...

 

[m2canada]

manila VO has slowed down specifically on pre 6/26. before it only takes them more or less a month to release visas after ppr but now it takes them ages....

 

[vermas]

Important to note from the following link that CIC is planning to take 74,000 - 80,400 FSW applicants (including PAs and dependants) in the year 2011, which could be the reason for slowdown as they have to regulate the number of new entrants.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/publications/annual-report2010/section1.asp#part1_1