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Subject: Re: Current Processing Trend at CHC Islamabad Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 15:48:55 +0000


Hi Isito,



Thanks for sharing your experience here. I know these people never ever
can imagine the hardships faced by the prospective immigrants.



Anyway, it's our fate to be on long waiting.



Damodar





Originally posted by Isito

> Guys,

>

> I understand you so well. I think everybody would have bad feelings

> about visa officers playing with people's lives. I realize that many

> people apply to get a visa, but I simply cannot believe the time it

> takes to process one application.

>

> We don't have a consulate in my home country and the residents of my

> country apply to Turkey. When I was getting my student visa I had to

> travel to Turkey to attent 2 minute interview. I mean it! my interview

> took exactly 2 minutes.

>

> I know that many visitors in Canada have problems getting US visa. So,

> when they request an interview in Buffalo the only thing you can do

> (in most cases) is to transfer your files to somewhere you can travel,

> i.e. almost start over. I tried to get US visa in Toronto but I could

> not. Now I have to wait to get an interview notification and ask LA

> office to transfer the files to Istanbul and it will probably take

> more than 2 years to transfer and one more year to finalize

> everything. It frustrates me so much. You should not spend 5 years of

> your life waiting, sending new documents and planning everything in

> your life considering the immigration application. This is too much.

>

> And you know what frustrates me even more? How do they decide which

> applicant needs an interview? They said I needed an interview because

> they had doubts regarding my education. I had undergraduate and

> graduate degrees from the best university in my country and I was MBA

> student at York university - one of the best universities in Canada (I

> am graduating in 4 weeks). Why did they have doubts, what was

> suspisious about my education? I know a person, a former resident of

> my country, who has never attended any class in any university, sent a

> fake diploma (you can get one for very little money in ex-USSR

> countries) and got a visa within 10 months without any interview. O

> yes, his education was not suspisious, mine was. I mean, how do

> officers make decisions? Does their mood have anything to do with it?

WHY ARE THEY PLAYING WITH PEOPLE'S LIVES?


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