Question:
Sometimes I need to talk to a visa officer or anybody from the
immigration department in the Canadian Embassy in Israel, and whenever I
need to speak to someone there I get a message that say if you know the
name of your party please press on the firts letter of his first nae,;;;
My question:
How is it possible to speak to somebody in the canadian Embassy
immigration section about your immigration application
Answer:
If everybody who "sometimes needs to speak to visa officer" would have their
calls answered then nobody will be left to process applications. Please
restrain your urge to talk to visa officers and let them do what they should
do - process applications without unnecessary interruptions.
Visa posts will not even reply to faxed or mailed status requests received
within their published processing times, so don't even bother with phone
calls...
Another horrible answer from Miller.I am from Israel and I can tell you that
in oppose to Buffalo,You CAN contact them in Israel.
Just go to the consular section on the phone menu, or go directly to 3 Nirim
Street in Tel-Aviv, where they are located.
Israel is not the big.It is more difficult for me from Toronto to go to
Buffalo and tell them to get their act together.
Just because you *can* contact the consular office in Tel Aviv does NOT
mean that a) they will give you answers to questions, or b) will do
anything to speed up your case. Andrew Miller's response was correct.
In this time when there are more applications than the officers can deal
with in a timely manner, the more time you distract the officers from
processing applications, the more you delay the applications in
progress.
I really do have to shake my head at the intelligence of some of the
people trying to come to Canada.
I already dealt with the embassy in T.A
Thery are much more helpful than Buffalo.They are mostly Canadian-jews who
speak Hebrew and are looking to help.
What is the deal with not intefering with the process?
Our lives depend on it.My life are on hold because of this stuff.I have a
Canadian girlfriend,lived here for 5 years, and the process is way to slow.
You pay 1525$ and you get shitty service.Pick up some kiddos on Queesn
street in dt T.O train them, and send them to Buffalo to process the
applications.
Immigration to Canada is a business, so treat it like a business all the
way.
All visa posts are adequately staffed to process number of applications needed
to meet Canadian annual immigration targets and even more. Adding more staff
won't change annual targets. Number of currently pending applications exceeding
several times our annual targets is the main reason for long processing times.
Calling visa posts, sending status requests, etc. distracts officers, takes
their time away from processing thus delays process for everyone even further -
is that simple fact too complicated to comprehend?
What is wrong with wanting to talk to a visa officer. We live in a
free country and visa officers are supposed to public servants.
Unfortunately these days visa officers have forgotten who thier
clients are. If you really want to talk to a visa officer look up
Canadian Representatives Aboard and find the name of the Cousellor
Immirgation or the Consul Immigration and us the directory srvice of
the embassy. I do not think this forum should be used to defend the
services provided by the visa offices and discouraging peole from
seeking service. Of course if they did provide good and open service
I would be out of business and so would many others.
I think that what is needed is the ability to talk to informed
information officers ... not the visa officers. The problem is 75% of
the people who want to talk to the visa officers are solely wanting to
find out "when", which is a question that most of the time, even the
visa officers could not answer.
If there were a surfeit of staff in the consulates and in CIC performing
these duties then it wouldn't be a big deal ... but at the moment, as
Andrew Miller keeps saying ... when you take a visa officer away from
adjudicating applications, you delay the applications ... especially at
the busiest offices.
As you say, if CIC and the consulates provided good information
officers, then a lot of your work would disappear!
Thats entirely true, every embassy has a phone number, for example last time
i called the CIC Call centre in Canada from the UK i mentioned to them it
was frustrating that there was no such call centre outside Canada and i had
to make an international call to ask them a question so they said oh you can
call CHC London here is their phone number. So i called CHC London and
indeed you can call them, but you can then proceed to be told to go away and
stop bothering them and use Fax or mail to correspond to the immigration
department.
