London Visa Office

[nkalra]

I think 13 Dec 2013 was due to some additional docs that I sent in Early Oct ... Once u send some docs they put 2 months to recheck if they received those docs

My file was received in LVO in Aug and a Visa officer was assigned to my file in Sep.

the same was the case with Jigzzy. His file was also assigned to a visa officer in Aug I think

Hummm thanks JBZZS. So that means we can expect some thing in 1st quarter of 2014.
Time to hibernate.....

 

[Maria_Sal]

even my gcms notes was not having any due date of december/jan ..

i will be receiving next gcms next month so maybe the new one has got some additional due dates as I sent PCCs in end of October..

Some few thoughts to share with you all which were passed by my borther...

LVO issuing PPR these days to end of 2011 and beginning of 2012 applicants.

As you also know, very few applications got transferred to London in the first 6 months of 2012 since on 28th June 2012, FSW program completely closed down for 11 months till it restarted again this year when u guyz applied. Also, all applications prior to 2008 were cancelled and almost all 2008-2011 applicants have now been issued PR visas (at least most of them).

CIC is aiming to finish all backlog by end of 2014 so that in 2015 when they start new EOI program, they don't have too many old fsw applications to process - that's why they introduced occupational restrictions and quotas of 20,000 in 2010 (MI-1), reduced it to 10,000 in 2011 (MI-2) and further reduced it to 5,000 in 2013 (MI-8)


just like NDVO and other visa offices, London visa office will also process old and new applications concurrently, otherwise that 7th Aug. 2014 date will not have been present in ur GCMS notes, its just that they are slower than NDVO, maybe coz of less staff and extended background/security checks for screening Muslim world applicants.


so, as per GCMS notes, definitely PPR with visa has to be come before August, but how long MR will take from now, thats just going to be a wild guess, I think late Feb to early March most likely.


some ppl are also saying London visa office has almost finished its allotted quota of MR for this year, that's why they plan to issue MR to 2013 applicants next year.......you have to remember all this wait time is coz of monthly quota, background check is just an excuse trust me.

they have pre-determined monthly quotas for CIC visa offices all around the world - even for NDVO they definitely have monthyl quota, which they are exhausting these days, they have certain fixed quota to issue PPR to 2013 applicants and certain fixed quota to issue PPR to pre-2012 applicants.

 

[Soundless]

even my gcms notes was not having any due date of december/jan ..

i will be receiving next gcms next month so maybe the new one has got some additional due dates as I sent PCCs in end of October..

Some few thoughts to share with you all which were passed by my borther...

LVO issuing PPR these days to end of 2011 and beginning of 2012 applicants.

As you also know, very few applications got transferred to London in the first 6 months of 2012 since on 28th June 2012, FSW program completely closed down for 11 months till it restarted again this year when u guyz applied. Also, all applications prior to 2008 were cancelled and almost all 2008-2011 applicants have now been issued PR visas (at least most of them).

CIC is aiming to finish all backlog by end of 2014 so that in 2015 when they start new EOI program, they don't have too many old fsw applications to process - that's why they introduced occupational restrictions and quotas of 20,000 in 2010 (MI-1), reduced it to 10,000 in 2011 (MI-2) and further reduced it to 5,000 in 2013 (MI-8)


just like NDVO and other visa offices, London visa office will also process old and new applications concurrently, otherwise that 7th Aug. 2014 date will not have been present in ur GCMS notes, its just that they are slower than NDVO, maybe coz of less staff and extended background/security checks for screening Muslim world applicants.


so, as per GCMS notes, definitely PPR with visa has to be come before August, but how long MR will take from now, thats just going to be a wild guess, I think late Feb to early March most likely.


some ppl are also saying London visa office has almost finished its allotted quota of MR for this year, that's why they plan to issue MR to 2013 applicants next year.......you have to remember all this wait time is coz of monthly quota, background check is just an excuse trust me.

they have pre-determined monthly quotas for CIC visa offices all around the world - even for NDVO they definitely have monthyl quota, which they are exhausting these days, they have certain fixed quota to issue PPR to 2013 applicants and certain fixed quota to issue PPR to pre-2012 applicants.

+1 for such detailed analysis.

We are waiting your GCMS notes to see if anything happened between the period I requested my GCMS notes on Dec. 5th and yours maybe Jan 5th

 

[imranrao]

even my gcms notes was not having any due date of december/jan ..

i will be receiving next gcms next month so maybe the new one has got some additional due dates as I sent PCCs in end of October..

Some few thoughts to share with you all which were passed by my borther...

LVO issuing PPR these days to end of 2011 and beginning of 2012 applicants.

As you also know, very few applications got transferred to London in the first 6 months of 2012 since on 28th June 2012, FSW program completely closed down for 11 months till it restarted again this year when u guyz applied. Also, all applications prior to 2008 were cancelled and almost all 2008-2011 applicants have now been issued PR visas (at least most of them).

CIC is aiming to finish all backlog by end of 2014 so that in 2015 when they start new EOI program, they don't have too many old fsw applications to process - that's why they introduced occupational restrictions and quotas of 20,000 in 2010 (MI-1), reduced it to 10,000 in 2011 (MI-2) and further reduced it to 5,000 in 2013 (MI-8)


just like NDVO and other visa offices, London visa office will also process old and new applications concurrently, otherwise that 7th Aug. 2014 date will not have been present in ur GCMS notes, its just that they are slower than NDVO, maybe coz of less staff and extended background/security checks for screening Muslim world applicants.


so, as per GCMS notes, definitely PPR with visa has to be come before August, but how long MR will take from now, thats just going to be a wild guess, I think late Feb to early March most likely.


some ppl are also saying London visa office has almost finished its allotted quota of MR for this year, that's why they plan to issue MR to 2013 applicants next year.......you have to remember all this wait time is coz of monthly quota, background check is just an excuse trust me.

they have pre-determined monthly quotas for CIC visa offices all around the world - even for NDVO they definitely have monthyl quota, which they are exhausting these days, they have certain fixed quota to issue PPR to 2013 applicants and certain fixed quota to issue PPR to pre-2012 applicants.

Really good analysis dear please can you tell us about our medical status because we are MI3 April 2012 applicants. I hope they will work about our applications as well.
Imran Rao

 

[Maria_Sal]

I/We really hope to hear the good news with the beginning of the year 2014..
inshaAllah 2014 will bring lots of celebrations...like how NDVO is celebrating nowadays and CPP-O already did...n other visa offices ofcourse...

2015 we all will be in canada inshaAllah

 

[hila01]

even my gcms notes was not having any due date of december/jan ..

i will be receiving next gcms next month so maybe the new one has got some additional due dates as I sent PCCs in end of October..

Some few thoughts to share with you all which were passed by my borther...

LVO issuing PPR these days to end of 2011 and beginning of 2012 applicants.

As you also know, very few applications got transferred to London in the first 6 months of 2012 since on 28th June 2012, FSW program completely closed down for 11 months till it restarted again this year when u guyz applied. Also, all applications prior to 2008 were cancelled and almost all 2008-2011 applicants have now been issued PR visas (at least most of them).

CIC is aiming to finish all backlog by end of 2014 so that in 2015 when they start new EOI program, they don't have too many old fsw applications to process - that's why they introduced occupational restrictions and quotas of 20,000 in 2010 (MI-1), reduced it to 10,000 in 2011 (MI-2) and further reduced it to 5,000 in 2013 (MI-8)


just like NDVO and other visa offices, London visa office will also process old and new applications concurrently, otherwise that 7th Aug. 2014 date will not have been present in ur GCMS notes, its just that they are slower than NDVO, maybe coz of less staff and extended background/security checks for screening Muslim world applicants.


so, as per GCMS notes, definitely PPR with visa has to be come before August, but how long MR will take from now, thats just going to be a wild guess, I think late Feb to early March most likely.


some ppl are also saying London visa office has almost finished its allotted quota of MR for this year, that's why they plan to issue MR to 2013 applicants next year.......you have to remember all this wait time is coz of monthly quota, background check is just an excuse trust me.

they have pre-determined monthly quotas for CIC visa offices all around the world - even for NDVO they definitely have monthyl quota, which they are exhausting these days, they have certain fixed quota to issue PPR to 2013 applicants and certain fixed quota to issue PPR to pre-2012 applicants.

Thanks Maria for all the analysis. I have always been and will remain optimistic about LVO processing our applications within 1 year. +1 for u.

 

[luqi]

even my gcms notes was not having any due date of december/jan ..

i will be receiving next gcms next month so maybe the new one has got some additional due dates as I sent PCCs in end of October..

Some few thoughts to share with you all which were passed by my borther...

LVO issuing PPR these days to end of 2011 and beginning of 2012 applicants.

As you also know, very few applications got transferred to London in the first 6 months of 2012 since on 28th June 2012, FSW program completely closed down for 11 months till it restarted again this year when u guyz applied. Also, all applications prior to 2008 were cancelled and almost all 2008-2011 applicants have now been issued PR visas (at least most of them).

CIC is aiming to finish all backlog by end of 2014 so that in 2015 when they start new EOI program, they don't have too many old fsw applications to process - that's why they introduced occupational restrictions and quotas of 20,000 in 2010 (MI-1), reduced it to 10,000 in 2011 (MI-2) and further reduced it to 5,000 in 2013 (MI-8)


just like NDVO and other visa offices, London visa office will also process old and new applications concurrently, otherwise that 7th Aug. 2014 date will not have been present in ur GCMS notes, its just that they are slower than NDVO, maybe coz of less staff and extended background/security checks for screening Muslim world applicants.


so, as per GCMS notes, definitely PPR with visa has to be come before August, but how long MR will take from now, thats just going to be a wild guess, I think late Feb to early March most likely.


some ppl are also saying London visa office has almost finished its allotted quota of MR for this year, that's why they plan to issue MR to 2013 applicants next year.......you have to remember all this wait time is coz of monthly quota, background check is just an excuse trust me.

they have pre-determined monthly quotas for CIC visa offices all around the world - even for NDVO they definitely have monthyl quota, which they are exhausting these days, they have certain fixed quota to issue PPR to 2013 applicants and certain fixed quota to issue PPR to pre-2012 applicants.

it really motivates us. +1 maria

 

[luqi]

I/We really hope to hear the good news with the beginning of the year 2014..
inshaAllah 2014 will bring lots of celebrations...like how NDVO is celebrating nowadays and CPP-O already did...n other visa offices ofcourse...

2015 we all will be in canada inshaAllah

Inshallah

 

[Abu Hassaan]

I totally agree with the analysis Maria. +1 for you buddy.

even my gcms notes was not having any due date of december/jan ..

i will be receiving next gcms next month so maybe the new one has got some additional due dates as I sent PCCs in end of October..

Some few thoughts to share with you all which were passed by my borther...

LVO issuing PPR these days to end of 2011 and beginning of 2012 applicants.

As you also know, very few applications got transferred to London in the first 6 months of 2012 since on 28th June 2012, FSW program completely closed down for 11 months till it restarted again this year when u guyz applied. Also, all applications prior to 2008 were cancelled and almost all 2008-2011 applicants have now been issued PR visas (at least most of them).

CIC is aiming to finish all backlog by end of 2014 so that in 2015 when they start new EOI program, they don't have too many old fsw applications to process - that's why they introduced occupational restrictions and quotas of 20,000 in 2010 (MI-1), reduced it to 10,000 in 2011 (MI-2) and further reduced it to 5,000 in 2013 (MI-8)


just like NDVO and other visa offices, London visa office will also process old and new applications concurrently, otherwise that 7th Aug. 2014 date will not have been present in ur GCMS notes, its just that they are slower than NDVO, maybe coz of less staff and extended background/security checks for screening Muslim world applicants.


so, as per GCMS notes, definitely PPR with visa has to be come before August, but how long MR will take from now, thats just going to be a wild guess, I think late Feb to early March most likely.


some ppl are also saying London visa office has almost finished its allotted quota of MR for this year, that's why they plan to issue MR to 2013 applicants next year.......you have to remember all this wait time is coz of monthly quota, background check is just an excuse trust me.

they have pre-determined monthly quotas for CIC visa offices all around the world - even for NDVO they definitely have monthyl quota, which they are exhausting these days, they have certain fixed quota to issue PPR to 2013 applicants and certain fixed quota to issue PPR to pre-2012 applicants.

 

[tashford]

Great work lets all just hope you are correct.

We'll see next year I guess..

Lets just keep posting our GCMS results and analyse them to see if there are ay changes.

 

[irfanyusuf]

Good analysis Maria. In addition to the reasons you wrote about slowness of LVO, I would say that LVO is probably the biggest VO handling applications from over 15 countries i-e Bahrain, Channel Islands, Denmark, England, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Finland, Gibraltar, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Kuwait, Northern Ireland, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Svalbard, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, UK, Wales, Yemen. Isn't it strange .................. So in addition to large number of applications they process, it is the diversified and much varying process for background checks for each country that may delay the process further.

GCMS notes shared by you people point that LVO hasn't yet started the security checks or any other evaluation .......... This shows that LVO (if not on strike) is still busy with clearing the backlog. But when I contacted two 2011 applicants from Pakistan (now in Canada), to my surprise both of them got their MR within 9 months of the initial application submission to CIO and got the visas in around 3-4 months of Medicals. This dilutes the thought LVO being busy with backlogs.

I second that we all must write to minister and the LVO itself for the delay in processing, with regular but polite follow-up as well. It will be good if we also request the mistier for introducing 2-3 VOs on urgent basis to handle the cases from the above countries which will eventually speed up the progress.

even my gcms notes was not having any due date of december/jan ..

i will be receiving next gcms next month so maybe the new one has got some additional due dates as I sent PCCs in end of October..

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[Soundless]

Good analysis Maria. In addition to the reasons you wrote about slowness of LVO, I would say that LVO is probably the biggest VO handling applications from over 15 countries i-e Bahrain, Channel Islands, Denmark, England, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Finland, Gibraltar, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Kuwait, Northern Ireland, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Svalbard, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, UK, Wales, Yemen. Isn't it strange .................. So in addition to large number of applications they process, it is the diversified and much varying process for background checks for each country that may delay the process further.

GCMS notes shared by you people point that LVO hasn't yet started the security checks or any other evaluation .......... This shows that LVO (if not on strike) is still busy with clearing the backlog. But when I contacted two 2011 applicants from Pakistan (now in Canada), to my surprise both of them got their MR within 9 months of the initial application submission to CIO and got the visas in around 3-4 months of Medicals. This dilutes the thought LVO being busy with backlogs.

I second that we all must write to minister and the LVO itself for the delay in processing, with regular but polite follow-up as well. It will be good if we also request the mistier for introducing 2-3 VOs on urgent basis to handle the cases from the above countries which will eventually speed up the progress.

Does VO updates GCMS system instantly when they start background check? I don't think so, I am not expert though
Our background check maybe is running now (or maybe not) and my GCMS which is the latest one has no reference to activity.
What I want to say that GCMS notes - maybe - does not confirm that background check is not running

 

[AK2147]

even my gcms notes was not having any due date of december/jan ..

i will be receiving next gcms next month so maybe the new one has got some additional due dates as I sent PCCs in end of October..

Some few thoughts to share with you all which were passed by my borther...

LVO issuing PPR these days to end of 2011 and beginning of 2012 applicants.

As you also know, very few applications got transferred to London in the first 6 months of 2012 since on 28th June 2012, FSW program completely closed down for 11 months till it restarted again this year when u guyz applied. Also, all applications prior to 2008 were cancelled and almost all 2008-2011 applicants have now been issued PR visas (at least most of them).

CIC is aiming to finish all backlog by end of 2014 so that in 2015 when they start new EOI program, they don't have too many old fsw applications to process - that's why they introduced occupational restrictions and quotas of 20,000 in 2010 (MI-1), reduced it to 10,000 in 2011 (MI-2) and further reduced it to 5,000 in 2013 (MI-8)


just like NDVO and other visa offices, London visa office will also process old and new applications concurrently, otherwise that 7th Aug. 2014 date will not have been present in ur GCMS notes, its just that they are slower than NDVO, maybe coz of less staff and extended background/security checks for screening Muslim world applicants.


so, as per GCMS notes, definitely PPR with visa has to be come before August, but how long MR will take from now, thats just going to be a wild guess, I think late Feb to early March most likely.


some ppl are also saying London visa office has almost finished its allotted quota of MR for this year, that's why they plan to issue MR to 2013 applicants next year.......you have to remember all this wait time is coz of monthly quota, background check is just an excuse trust me.

they have pre-determined monthly quotas for CIC visa offices all around the world - even for NDVO they definitely have monthyl quota, which they are exhausting these days, they have certain fixed quota to issue PPR to 2013 applicants and certain fixed quota to issue PPR to pre-2012 applicants.

Good one....

 

[tashford]

Good analysis Maria. In addition to the reasons you wrote about slowness of LVO, I would say that LVO is probably the biggest VO handling applications from over 15 countries i-e Bahrain, Channel Islands, Denmark, England, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Finland, Gibraltar, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Kuwait, Northern Ireland, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Svalbard, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, UK, Wales, Yemen. Isn't it strange .................. So in addition to large number of applications they process, it is the diversified and much varying process for background checks for each country that may delay the process further.

GCMS notes shared by you people point that LVO hasn't yet started the security checks or any other evaluation .......... This shows that LVO (if not on strike) is still busy with clearing the backlog. But when I contacted two 2011 applicants from Pakistan (now in Canada), to my surprise both of them got their MR within 9 months of the initial application submission to CIO and got the visas in around 3-4 months of Medicals. This dilutes the thought LVO being busy with backlogs.

I second that we all must write to minister and the LVO itself for the delay in processing, with regular but polite follow-up as well. It will be good if we also request the mistier for introducing 2-3 VOs on urgent basis to handle the cases from the above countries which will eventually speed up the progress.

I obviously really agree with this statement, we really need to contact the minster and urge him todo what irfanyusuf has suggested.

 

[tashford]

how people have emailed the minister so far regarding this situation?