this happened to a few people here as well.So this person applied in March 2021 and is basically approved! How have they jumped the queue?!
RPRF was requested along with Bio and AOR in March and May, but nothing happened after that. One thing in Common is that the requests I heard of were all from Sydney, not the local office. The processing starts only after file transferred to local office.
Yes, According to PDI, RPRF, if not already paid, should be requested after application was approved. However, during this post pandemic time, and also considering that quite a lot of staffs were newly hired and lack of experience, anything can happen. Personally, I do believe this is a minor procedural misunderstanding within the CIO (central intake office) in Sydney, although I really hope for the approval of the lucky applications.
Who knows! maybe IRCC is in urgent need of more money!
Let's hope for the best! and there indeed has been lucky ones in the past.