anjum786mohammed wrote:got a question 4 all
i just been reading the posts of last year for this month july, and have noticed that there was a big delay in processing visa's, anyone know why, why were applications made from may 2010 till September 2010 taking so much time to receive their visa's?????????????????????
most people were getting a reply bk in 15 weeks
Blame the huge backlog of applications during that time. Plus the English test requirement made more applications come through so that people who would have difficulty passing the requirement rushed their applications just to ensure they get there before the requirement was enforced.
After about Oct 25, applications started to speed up because Islamabad was given some of the workload so some applications were decided in Islamabad or something like that - this went on for about 2 months or so until the backlog was all cleared out.
Rest assured what happened last year was for a reason (English test requirement) so don't anticipate for this year to be the same

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ali sher, ask ur friend to wait until 15 July or whatever the date is for the test centres list to be updated. If he takes the test before that date there is a small risk of him having to re-do it in case that centre doesn't make it to the list of approved centres. So if he can wait till AFTER 15 July then at least he'll be sure that the centre he will take it in is an approved centre and that his test certificate will be valid for the forseeable future.