Hey guys, just to confirm that aside from Newfoundland which is being priority processed, there really is no rhyme or reason on processing speeds. Today gave me a real life example of that. I was at a burrito shop overhearing a bunch of guys talking about SINP and I spoke to them about their immigration journey. One was a manager at Domino's, another at KFC & another who applied for the TR to PR pathway.
One SINP nominee was approved in 7 months, another in 14 months while the TR to PR guy hasn't even received an AOR - while his other TR to PR friends got approvals in 6 months. All fast food NOCs, all single in terms of marital status, all different processing speeds. IRCC is such a disgrace - this model of CIO allocating files to different offices just isn't working. Files should be allocated to immigration officers, regardless of where they are, in a queue, and each officer should manage only a max number of files (so 3000 processing officers / 450,000 immigrants per year = 150 files per officer/year).
All of them also leave to intend to leave Saskatchewan the moment they get PR (all their friends who left initially came from Ontario and have gone back after PR). So whatever Saskatchewan is doing seems to be pretty ineffective at retaining people in the province as well but that's just a side comment.
