Mate, how do we justify that processing is slow when it’s within the 12 month window?
We can't.
But relative to other offices, it's slow.
Don't they share load with less busier offices?
why would they do that; they know they have 12 months to process every case. Majority of the people have been told it’s within the processing time and people don’t want to accept that answer. There are enough reasons to be happy, we have a choice to drop this issue but no; unnecessary stress.
If other provinces and cities are getting less applicants, certainly they have lesser work load.
There are people like you, me, Mumbai and many more who have paid taxes and done enough to send that file in for processing and there are those who have had gaps in employment, travelled a lot, after 15 years of living here determined citizenship is a great idea and they have sent the files in too.. and now none of those are in order and needs further investigation.. in depth analysis.. an officer will take his time and SOME of us have to wait a little longer not FOREVER.
My observation- The moment someone gets a test invite or oath invite, most people get upset and go in that dark isolated corner and start to feel sorry for themselves.
This could also be true that they are doing work permits for refugees and asylum seekers to get them to work while their cases are looked at.
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