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are you saying visas upto end Nov have been processed and are awaiting authorisation?
The VFS people should just be truthful on their website instead of telling us these Visas take 6-8 weeks when in all likelihood its 6-8 months. If one know the truth and commits to apply at least you wont experience all this frustration after just 8 weeks of waiting!
I totally agree with you Grace...people lets not raise hopes for the desperate fellow citizens who are waiting in vain..please give the truth, nothing but the truth
Guys its good to have internal sources but for the sake of being authentic and consistency lets not post rumors that are misleading in the name of internal sources, We all agree this time things are way behind, but if you check this forum dating long back you will agree that these guys are always 5-6 months and 7 months for relative visas sometimes, there is no way they are done with November, they should be doing November now if it was like other previous years but this time they are still in August thus what is worrying.
You really seem to be informative, thanks for that...bt how accurate is yo source? you giving us hope....means beginning of April they might start on 2018 CSV
Myhumble advice is rather not withdraw that passport if you applied in August since they are saying they will start processing other visas by Mid March. I have heard that for some people it took more than a month for them to retrieve their passports. And remember once you retrieve your passport your application is cancelled!
Embassy has no intension to release other visa categories before Easter, their preferred scenario is to start dealing with other types in April. There "MIGHT" be something from the 15th of March for the August Applicants.
All other visas upto end of November have been processed and are waiting authorisation pending their release.
Currently assessing December visas is concurrently begin done with Study Permits, with a target to finish processing them by end of March.
All 2018 visa are untouched and there is no appetite to do so before the 2017 backlog is cleared. Checking the stats very few CSV applications are actually beign made in 2018! Maybe ZSP extension had an effect.
Why are delays more pronounced particularly for the 2017/2018 applications? Remember around 2016 there were amplified allegations of corruption by the embassy in so much that the issue was covered the local Herald Newpaper..... fast forward.... Fire fighting meeting were held and hard hitting decisions taken. Only a couple of senior staff are now allowed to authorise permit and they cant be relieved by junior staff members. Relief Staff were fingered as source of corruption. Processing targets ie Permits issued per week were scrapped. Quality, consistent decisions were adopted as the new working order. Unintended Consequence of this is that it created a bottleneck right at the end of the Process, with more and more applications beign made, the system is bound to buckle under pressure.
Applied Relative Visa end November 2017. Any news guys.
Myhumble advice is rather not withdraw that passport if you applied in August since they are saying they will start processing other visas by Mid March. I have heard that for some people it took more than a month for them to retrieve their passports. And remember once you retrieve your passport your application is cancelled!
I agree with Nandi 100% coz even my contact at Vfs byo confirmed that in the 2 batches of study permits they got recently there were also few relative visa and 2-3 CSVs...and they expect other types to flow in greater no#s in mid-march goin forward..so jus hang in there
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