One thing that I'd recommend is not spending too much time parsing the words that the agent says. I'm told (by friends who have received PR in the past) that since we're within the 6 month period and our profiles officially indicate that eligibility has not been determined yet, the agents sometimes are expected to not divulge more and stick to what a candidate is supposed to know when processing time is below 6 months. There may be some agents that are there who may tell you a little more in some cases, but in most cases, agents are supposed to stick to this message.Yes, it will cross the 180 days mark. They cant finish processing everything in 27 days since as per other applicants, security screening alone takes a lot of time.
I'd say that there is a possibility that our applications could have passed eligibility and could be stalled by an internal bottleneck of some form within CIC. It's best to wait until Feb 6th before getting serious about getting more info from CIC. I'm sure that they will be able to do something about clearing this backlog.