I feel you, it's very depressing. I'm also passed 13 months and no news whatsoever.
I ordered my GCMS notes last month and got them day before yesterday and forwarded it to my Lawyers yesterday. The feedback I got was that my file basically has been sitting idle since the last 9 months after I got a request for RCMP fingerprints last July 2018. Waiting to be reviewed by someone.
Legally IRCC cannot keep an applicant waiting with undue delay. IRCC is doing so. There is no security screening started on my profile. Neither has there been any more ADR required. It had actually just been sitting without any delays and this information is coming from a Lawyer seeing the GCMS notes and not me personally.
I am beyond livid!!! 13 months of our lives gone just like that. It is true that due to this reason I have all the right as a CEC applicant to file a case against IRCC to the tribunal branch court. But my lawyer also warned me that it might just open a flood gate for all waiting applicants legally against IRCC.
The Federal elections are coming soon. I wonder if the Liberal parties can handle another negative news like this after the SNC Lavalin case that is going on against them if now a news that them, the Liberal Party who is all for immigration, is actually keeping applicants waiting for so many months and not meeting the laws set by the government where a visa officer can not unduly delay an application by making them sit.
I have a good mind to go to CBC with this information!
I am 100% sure that all the applicants waiting so far are in the exact same boat as mine(Unless they actually are in security screening).