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VISA OFFICE
ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
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(CIC region: Africa / Middle East)
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last internal audit in June 2005
ranks # 10 out of 44 visa posts
The office in Abidjan does not seem to process a huge volume of applications and is currently the fastest visa office in the Africa / Middle East region, averaging processing times for spousal immigration of 3 to 8 month.
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VISA OFFICE
ABU DHABI, U.A.E.
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(CIC region: Africa / Middle East)
staff: 3 Canadian based / 7 local staff
last internal audit in February 2000
ranks # 41 out of 44 visa posts
The office in Abu Dhabi is responsible for almost all countries on the Arabian peninsula. The mission has expanded rapidly in the last few years and does not seems to be able to keep up with the pace, giving it a ranking in the bottom third of all missions.
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VISA OFFICE
ACCRA, GHANA
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(CIC region: Africa / Middle East)
staff: 4 Canadian based / 14 local staff
last internal audit in May 2006
ranks # 43 out of 44 visa post
The mission in Accra is responsible for 12 countries. Amongst others, for Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria and officers have to travel a lot. Even though the mission seems to have enough immigration staff, it is notoriously slow in every aspect and mail correspondence, sent via regular mail, add easily a few month to the already extremely long process. It is ranked second last and only Nairobi is slower in processing applications.
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VISA OFFICE
ANKARA, TURKEY
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(CIC region: Europe)
staff: 2 Canadian based / 7 local staff
last internal audit in January 2006
ranks # 8 out of 44 visa posts
The office in Ankara only processes applications from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and Turkmenistan. Even though it has quite a small CIC staff it manages to be the third fastest visa office in Europe.
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VISA OFFICE
BEIJING, CHINA
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(CIC region: Asia / Pacific)
staff: 16 Canadian based / 77 local staff
last internal audit in October 2008
ranks # 2 out of 44 visa posts
The visa office in Beijing is CIC's largest mission outside of Canada. It is well staffed and is currently (last data from 2009) with Taipee the fastest office when it comes to processing times, averaging 3 to 5 month for spousal applications.
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VISA OFFICE
BERLIN, GERMANY
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(CIC region: Europe)
staff: 3 Canadian based / 15 local staff
last internal audit in February 2005
ranks # 32 out of 44 visa posts
The CIC mission in Germany is understaffed, even though the mission only handles applications from The Netherlands and Germany. It is together with Kiev the slowest office in Europe and even though it has quite strongly improved over it's 2008 ranking, it still ranks in the bottom third of all CIC offices worldwide .
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VISA OFFICE
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA
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(CIC region: Europe)
staff: 3 Canadian based / 15 local staff
last internal audit in March 2009
ranks # 40 out of 44 visa posts
The mission in Bogota is a medium sized mission and serves only Colombia and Ecuador. Bogota is a relatively slow mission for processing, which might have to do with security issues in Colombia itself as well as with more extensive background checks for applicants. The CIC mission in Bogota ranks in the bottom third of all missions and is the slowest one in South-America.
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