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Canadian Embassy Manila Processing Time Delay?

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Recently, a number of our clients has been wondering why they do not receive notice from the Canadian Visa Office-Manila even after the 45 days processing time indicated on their acknowledgment letter. This of course makes most of them worried about their application.

Are you in similar situation?

You shouldn't worry if there's a delay, it has nothing to do with your documents. Give it 2 weeks alloweance before you make a follow up. There seems to be delay in processing due to volume of applications the visa office is reviewing.

The new acknowledgement letter we received recently indicates a different processing time.


Processing Time:


Applications
for permanent residence in Canada in the category in which you have applied are finalized in an average of 6 to 12 months in our office. If you have not received any instructions from this office within 90 days from the date of this letter, please contact us directly and inform us of this.


That used to be 45 days.

The same thing is true with those who have submitted their original passports, waiting for their visa. It used to be returned with 2-3 weeks. But now, it takes longer.

“We will make our best efforts to have your passport(s) returned to you with your visa(s) within 90 days from their receipt at the Embassy. You should not make any plans to travel to Canada until you are in possession of your passports and the required visas.”


Processing period remains to be 6-12 months from the time the Visa Office received your application with supporting documents, after assessment from Centralized Intake Office.

So there. That explains why there is a delay. Avoid unncessary stress. It's not you, it's the embassy. ;-)

5 comments:

Anonymous,  February 5, 2011 at 5:43 AM  

what do you think is the reason why there is a delay in the return of the passports with visa? from experience of some people i know, they got their passports within a month, now it's more than 2 months and we still haven't received ours.

noellen November 19, 2011 at 2:09 PM  

My wife's application has been sitting in Canadian Embassy in Manila for almost a year now with her passport and they dont even answer inquiries that we made through letters, emails, phone calls. They are leaving us hanging, wondering, guessing and worried. Is this normal?

Anonymous,  March 20, 2012 at 7:12 PM  

There must be a law against their holding your passport that long...My wife took her passport and application in to the makati office but was turned away at the front desk..They wouldn't even take the file upstairs..She had morning sickness and just went off in the streets degected..we were worried of the very thing that has happened to you..that they keep or lose the passport...My latest course of action is to write to the Prime Minister..The whole thing is just a disgrace as far as I'm concerned..They can get with it or we'll just sell our business and retire.. Ron

Anonymous,  April 14, 2012 at 4:38 AM  

We have just sent our passports for issuance of our visas. In our letter, the emb said they'd try to process our visas within 20-30 working days because our app for permanent residency expires in less than 2 mos. Now this blog is stressing on us. Processing time too slow. Our app might just expire and renewing it would mean another 6 years of waiting. Fast pacing, please.

Anonymous,  July 4, 2012 at 8:49 AM  

I passed my application for temporary resident visa last June 11,2012.and,it's July 4,2012 already..Isaw in the website that it will take 14 days max. Of processing but,until now,i got no answer from them..i'm so worried!fast-pacing,please..i cannot sleep at night seriously about this,please help!!:(

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