Hi everyone.
My wife got a sponsorship from a company for her employment visa so we applied for the
employment and dependent visa at the same time. Today is our 7th week and was
wondering if applying both visas at the same time would delay the process. Her company is a well-known and a big company that everyone knows and her salary is above 20K. I know there were christmas and new year holidays. Does it normally take longer during end-of-the-year period? By the way we are a Japanese couple and had been married for over 1 year. All we had to do was to send necessary documents to her HR department and the rest was done by her company. About 2 weeks ago, we got an email from her company saying that the immigration had some enquiries(probably some missing documents?) regarding the visa and they haved replied back to the immigration.
Sorry for a long introduction. So my questions are
1. Does it take longer to process a visa during December and January because of Christmas and New Year Holiday?
2. Would applying for dependent and employment visa at the same time delay the visa process?
Thanks in advance!