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Yay! Just to give an idea to others in the same boat, I applied at the end of January and my Permenancia Definitiva was approved on April 13, except for some reason they only updated the website now (so I'm assuming I'll be getting something in the mail soon as well).

So all in all took approx. 4 months and some change.

Just thought I'd share for the time-frame it took for me!

Thx all!

Actually it took less than 4 months because it was approved on April 13, but for some reason they are only letting me know about this now. So I guess technically, it only took 2 months and some change.....

Nice.

They have always been pretty slow with moving the official decree to the regional offices. Typically 30+ days to get a formal notice of any sort out of immigration, after it hits the computer system. The way immigration has turned in to a bunch of moron recently, does not help. They are rejecting applications for whatever micky mouse reason they can come up with, but then you have to wait 30 days to be notified, and the notice will often not say why it was rejected (often simply they did not read the application, and needed to clear their desk for the day).

So, 4 months is getting to be a lucky number these days. Permanent residency is still like 4 months, but the initial temporary residency seems to be where the problems are at.

We submitted ours in February 2012, apparently they have received the documents and have entered them into the system...
Optimistically hoping we receive them before we go on holiday end-July. Not holding out much actual hope though :lol