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I'm very sorry for all the 2014 people with high CNs. OC seems to be the big loser this year. It's an absolute wash.Official VB is out. 1450 confirmed. Poo.
I'm very sorry for all the 2014 people with high CNs. OC seems to be the big loser this year. It's an absolute wash.Official VB is out. 1450 confirmed. Poo.
What is 'CEAC' and who made this spreadsheet and where did they get the information?
It's very surprising to me how few visas were issued in Sydney the entire 2013 year.
So what is the general consensus, there's no way that Sydney is going to go hammer and tongs processing dozens/hundreds of interviews in September? and that high case numbers should just accept their unfortunate left behind fate?
Can someone tell me again please, what is the process with the interview offer / notification? The lucky last people, the september interviews, what will they get? an email sent to them offering the interview? when abouts will such an email be sent to them? Late July early August?
It's very hard to piece together the knowledge a lot of you seeming experts have, I know that until a region goes current, it's all in case number order, but when it does go current, do they then switch to offering interviews in the order the paperwork was mailed to Kentucky instead? Because maybe that's the only thing I have going for me, my paperwork was in by like May 5 or something because I was lucky enough to discover this forum of serious players.
Meh. Such a strange little 13-15 months of slight hope that this would get very serious, probably not gonna get serious is it.
My number is low 2000s.
And I'm a probable goner according to the sentiment here in this forum. So it seems to me that only people who get less than 1400 in OC should even get the slightest bit excited every May. Am I right?
Congratulations on a slightly hopeful sounding CN hopefulinnz. I wouldn't be over the moon unless I had crawf style numbers, I think he was like 400 and something.
I call Britsimon's attention to his own post of 3 months ago..... where he appears to have commented about this spreadsheet data being incomplete?
http://forums.immigration.com/threads/ceac-data-up-to-02-mar-2014.320218/page-3#post-2336447
Thank you Brit Simon, and how do we know when this script was last run, can we be sure that it captured every interviewed sydney case from all of september 2013?
And so these case numbers in the spreadsheet, they reflect the exact same case numbers these people would have seen on their May barcode further processing selection letters, minus all the zeroes?
And when in the spreadsheet, it skips ahead 10, or 4, or 5, are we to assume that those 10, or 4, or 5 people just abandoned their applications?
Do we really know what the 'status date' field means?
So the spreadsheet doesn't say exactly when these people had their interview only they know this? not the script?
"AS I mentioned above the CEAC system is ONLY updated when the case goes current (and is updated), so no it will not have all the cases in September."
I don't understand that at all. I understand that the CEAC system won't show a given case until that case is current, I don't understand how it then follows that we are not seeing every case that went current up to the end of September last year in DV2013 spreadsheet. And you say 'is updated'. What does this mean? That there were people interviewed in Sydney in very late September, where the state department doesn't bother updating the CEAC system, doesn't bother updating it? I'm sorry, I don't understand the actual reason why or if there are cases interviewed in September last year that are not reflected in the data in the spreadsheet.
"We also have suspicions that the highest cases were not updated because certain regions highest case numbers sound too low."
What a delectable suspicion. I like that suspicion. I choose to share your suspicion. Because I am a wishful person. Lol. Let's hope your suspicion is correct. It could be, who knows, certainly not me, that being a bureaucracy and all, and being filled with warnings about how if you're not interviewed by September 30 you're totally done, maybe they just drop certain work like a hot potato come October 1. Maybe they do stop updating various things on computers and so on, and focus on the next year's one. I don't know.
Now can someone do me the immense favour of not making me look through 66 pages for the info that Crawf or someone had about the activity level, the days allocated per week or month or whatever it was, someone said they knew how often Sydney works on DV interviews, how many days are allocated for these things. I seem to recall it was something utterly depressing like a couple of days a month.
yes BritSimon, thanks, I was talking about September 2013, because I'm all about September 2014, my last white fading hope. I'm deeply interested in how busy the Sydney consulate was in September last year, and whether the highest case number interviewed and issued in September 2013 was genuinely the one listed in the spreadsheet, the depressing number 1600 and something. I'm all about hope for the people in the low 2000s. Thank you this has been an informative day of posts.