We're inland, paper-based applicants.
Our timeline looks like that:
7/09 - documents sent to CIC
14/09 - documents received by CIC without police checks
06/10 - police checks received by CIC (no request, just sent them separately from the main application)
17/10 - AOR (with 14/09 date)
It's super fast as for AOR am I right? I was really surprised that I received it after one month instead of 2-3.
Since I linked application it shows "action is required" but it doesn't have any messages on it. Is that normal?