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I am fed-up of the delayed communication from CKGS. I never received an email from CKGS. Calling several times and pleading for the application number - they finally gave me the application number over the phone, still no email.
Sent by USPS on 10-22, received 10-24 and submitted to embassy the same day. No further updates yet.
Tried checking with different application numbers to see the status. There were about 500 applications before me who finally had the PIO delivered. Their application was sent 10-16 and recieved 11-07. This shows that are receiving about hundreds of applications every day.
My travel planned the Thanksgiving week and I am not worried after my research! I will update my status and will stop inputting random application numbers in the form.
Most of us here are in IT. The entire PIO process is a major mess. In this day and age, automation of most of that crazy mess would eliminate a lot of erroneous applications (failure rate on my test sample was 2~3 every 10 applications - missing documents, notary issues, passport pages not sent, visa status not sent,...).
Don't get me started on the instructions! Send 2 copies? 4 photos - including those pasted on the application? Notary - multiple kinds of notary in CA, which is acceptable? Passport scans? Driver's? Lot of this is personal info and not sure what they do with all the excess paper. Do they even dispose it off properly?
It should be like US VISA application. Initiate online forms, fill them, print, ship/submit and receive. It will cut down on a lot of delays. Everything is digitally connected - do they not know the father's name/mother's name just by passport numbers? Don't they have access to their own databases? Why the unnecessary paperwork is beyond me.
I know it can be a complicated process but I think we can easily architect a much more efficient solution than this bunch of insert__your__word CKGS!
Sent by USPS on 10-22, received 10-24 and submitted to embassy the same day. No further updates yet.
Tried checking with different application numbers to see the status. There were about 500 applications before me who finally had the PIO delivered. Their application was sent 10-16 and recieved 11-07. This shows that are receiving about hundreds of applications every day.
My travel planned the Thanksgiving week and I am not worried after my research! I will update my status and will stop inputting random application numbers in the form.
Most of us here are in IT. The entire PIO process is a major mess. In this day and age, automation of most of that crazy mess would eliminate a lot of erroneous applications (failure rate on my test sample was 2~3 every 10 applications - missing documents, notary issues, passport pages not sent, visa status not sent,...).
Don't get me started on the instructions! Send 2 copies? 4 photos - including those pasted on the application? Notary - multiple kinds of notary in CA, which is acceptable? Passport scans? Driver's? Lot of this is personal info and not sure what they do with all the excess paper. Do they even dispose it off properly?
It should be like US VISA application. Initiate online forms, fill them, print, ship/submit and receive. It will cut down on a lot of delays. Everything is digitally connected - do they not know the father's name/mother's name just by passport numbers? Don't they have access to their own databases? Why the unnecessary paperwork is beyond me.
I know it can be a complicated process but I think we can easily architect a much more efficient solution than this bunch of insert__your__word CKGS!
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