I submitted the application on 27th Nov and no response after that: Ghost email, AOR.. nothing.
Lately, the processing time was set to 34 months (almost 3 years), 2.4m backlogs and now for many, the status getting updated to "SUBMITTED" (7) from status 10.
To my mind, it seems like they are putting ice on the PGP applications (maybe for the next year or so). PCC and Medical are only valid for a year.. best to ask applicants to submit these after a year when they actually have time to process our applications.
If you are in a rush, they are encouraging us to apply for super visa.. what better/painless option than to help the economy recover after covid and the current inflation.
30k applicants x $200 (super visa fees) = $6M (lump sum) + insurance.
Again, this is just a guess, and hope it's not true.