Looks like nothing is started except criminality but Paper File it says location Test Ready Tagged.. anyone know what all this means
It means the SAME thing NOT having obtained a copy of GCMS notes means: you need to WAIT, and in the meantime watch for IRCC communications or notices, and respond accordingly. Same as every other applicant.
These GCMS notes are rife with default codes which illuminate nothing. If and when there is an action noted that could indicate the applicant needs or should or even could do something, the applicant is going to get communication or notice of that soon enough anyway, and there is NOTHING, nothing at all the applicant can do BEFORE getting the communication or notice. In other words, the applicant who does not obtain a copy of GCMS notes will learn everything the applicant needs to know to make any decision the SAME as the applicant who obtains GCMS. For emphasis: there is NOTHING gained by obtaining a generic copy of applicant's GCMS notes.
Reminder 1: the GCMS notes obtained by a generic ATIP request are largely if not entirely uninformative. The only impact the request has is to add an additional entry documenting the applicant's request into the IRCC's GCMS records for the citizenship application. The only thing this accomplishes, and only if a processing agent notices this, is to alert a processing agent the applicant has an unusual concern about his or her case. Most of the time that probably triggers no more than a shrug, if even that, but who knows if or when this might tip the scales and invite the processing agent to question why is it that this applicant is worried enough to make this request. The question, then, is whether this could lead the processing agent to divert the application from a routine processing track in order to probe that question.
Reminder 2: IRCC is a bureaucracy, a big bureaucracy, about as big as bureaucracies go in Canada. A bureaucracy is what a bureaucracy does. What bureaucracies DO
NOT DO, not well, is efficiently handle matters involving non-routine diversions. While there are varying, differing philosophies about how to best approach a bureaucratic process, for a process like citizenship application processing, which is generally a routine procedure for tens of thousands of cases a year, most of the evidence strongly suggests that the easiest and fastest path through is the path of least resistance, the path with fewer bumps or side questions, the path without diversions. Thus there is a lot to be said for an approach that is largely
hands-off, an approach that gets everything right up front so there is no need to make supplemental changes later, an approach that minimizes the chance of non-routine questions or concerns, an approach that aims to minimize action on the application, an approach which attempts to avoid doing anything which suggest the application is unusual or different from other routine applications or which might otherwise bump the application off the mainstream routine track.
Summary: It is not necessarily a mistake to tamper with the routine bureaucratic process. But for the vast majority of citizenship applicants, there is no reason to take even small risks of bumping a processing agent even a little. Why do anything which has any risk at all, even if a small risk, if it has no more than an infinitesimal chance of helping?
Edit to add: Citizenship application processing, like many highly routine bureaucratic processes, is
NOT a
squeaky-wheel-gets-the-oil scenario. Actually, the opposite. The squeaky wheel may attract additional, unwanted scrutiny.
