A big help Sender: brian0

This is asking the proverbial question "how long is a piece of string"! Frankly it's impossible to say how long each of these things will take. Firstly, every case is different - different visa types, different countries, different occupations, etc. Second, DIMIA is a huge unknown to all us looking in from outside. We don't know what will happen down the road. Just look at the July 2004 thing and the latest "re- organisation" that's happening.

All that aside though, you can make some rough guesses about what MIGHT happen. CO allocated could take anywhere from 12 weeks to 20 weeks (give or take 10 weeks!). Time from CO allocated to grant is even more variable depending on whether you "front loaded" anything like meds-pcc, and whether you get asked for further information about your app. It also very much depends on how keen you are about getting info back to DIMIA. You typically get something like 70 days to return info, but things like PCCs from some countried can take months to get back, so this step can really stretch out. On the whole, buttuming you did not front- load, your probably looking at 4-8 weeks from the time you return all the info to DIMIA.

I hope that helps, but really it's not a straight-forward question to try to answer. Just take a look at people's timeline in the sigs for an idea of the variability in the whole process!

Cheers, Brian

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