I am in the same boat as you, my application was delivered on October 16th, 2017. No test invite yet. As of now, I have already contacted my MP more than four times, contacted the ministry, used the webform, but with no luck. Here is the reality of the situation as I learned it from someone I knew who worked there and quit recently:
In some cases where your application is considered non-routine (primarily when they ask for fingerprints or extra background checks), you start following a different route in the processing. Sometimes the response for a background check is delayed at a third party, which they have no control of. At other times they simply place a note on your file saying they will come back to it in few months to check what the status is, and in other less likely situations it's the agent's fault (laziness, lack of organization, etc). Bottom line is there is no way for you to know what the heck is happening to your application because of lack of transparency. What drives me nuts sometimes is that many people I personally know, with much more complicated backgrounds, received their citizenship in less than 5 months. So is there a criteria for this delay with others like us? I really don't know.
Frustrating, annoying, makes you impatient, but at the end of the day all we can do is wait and keep contacting the MP and the IRCC support.
Best of luck for all of us still waiting.
In some cases where your application is considered non-routine (primarily when they ask for fingerprints or extra background checks), you start following a different route in the processing. Sometimes the response for a background check is delayed at a third party, which they have no control of. At other times they simply place a note on your file saying they will come back to it in few months to check what the status is, and in other less likely situations it's the agent's fault (laziness, lack of organization, etc). Bottom line is there is no way for you to know what the heck is happening to your application because of lack of transparency. What drives me nuts sometimes is that many people I personally know, with much more complicated backgrounds, received their citizenship in less than 5 months. So is there a criteria for this delay with others like us? I really don't know.
Frustrating, annoying, makes you impatient, but at the end of the day all we can do is wait and keep contacting the MP and the IRCC support.
Best of luck for all of us still waiting.
