Good decision. this is to be considered as a long term investment. do it and forget it! If you keep focussing around it it just messes your mind. I gave up a long time back. When there is an update they will email you.
@SithLord Based on reading GCMS notes regarding the case following is my assumption of the process. It might be entirely wrong. First an analyst picks the application. does first initial review if all the documents are provided. The analyst will provide his/her thoughts on completion of documentation and if it matches what points have been claimed. Recommended Pass= Analyst thinks everything is in order. RR=He thinks that documents are there but requesting officer to review the document and make a final decision. This might mean that they need to verify the document. This is basically triaging the application for completeness. Normally if the application fails at this stage, the IRCC returns the entire fees for the PR application. If it goes beyond this point and a decision is not made if favor, they return only "PR Card Fees" (if already paid).
After this, the case is dumped back into system and system assigns it to a Case Centre/Pool. Now here I think where things get messed up. There seems to be no order or sequence of processing in which cases will be picked up and by which officer. It is just assigned to a Pool. Or if there is a sequence it is clearly not visible. There can be a possibility that GCMS system assigns weights/priority to the application based on the application type and NOC code and officers are required to clear higher priority first.
Wishing everyone all the best and hope the cases progress soon.
