9 weeks and counting...
Arvind 74,
I'm really sorry to hear that you've had to live with the frustration of not knowing and being in an emirates equivalent of limbo since may! I thought my 9 weeks wait was bad! My only suggestion would be to try calling the London office instead of the Dubai one and ask to speak to someone who can help. Sadly, I'm not in a position to be pushy and ask for the progress of my application to be checked while I'm on the phone because 9 weeks isn't really out of the ordinary. But you, however, are. Call them on 02078080004 (you might need to pop the British country code in too) and ask to speak to Tanya.
Because of the location of my OD the numbers weren't huge and were only in the 90's. This was eventually brought down to 14 (12 girls and 2 boys) for the FI, which allowed me to keep in touch with pretty much all of them. Therefore I am aware that all of them, bar one, have received their GC. The other, is waiting patiently (or not so patiently as the case may be) to find out if she's been successful or not and we email each other every day with progress reports. Haha
Upon contacting the London office, she was told that the recommended 6 week time frame that we are required to wait only begins from the day that the Dubai office receive ALL your documents, so the fact that we had to resubmit pictures on the 5th week means that's the wait started from that point, meaning we both have another two weeks to wait...
But like I said, try the London office and if all else fails, just be persistent to the point of obnoxiousness with the calls and emails to CCR in Dubai! Please do let us all know how you get on.
Wishing you all the luck in the world,
Gary