Yeah, apparently LAVO is the slowest office in the US and Canada... My husband and I are considered a "complicated" case because this is his second marriage (though his first one was 15 years ago and didn't even last a year), plus he has 4 criminal charges from 2004 and earlier (2 of marijuana possession and 2 of domestic assault because aforementioned ex-wife was quite vengeful), so knowing our circumstances, our lawyers told us we should expect to be transferred to LAVO (he is a US citizen living in Michigan) and that our application will probably take more than 12 months to process.
We submitted a combined spousal sponsorship and rehabilitation application. In our original application package, we included PCC from Michigan and Tennessee (where my husband has lived for more than 6 months in the past), plus the FBI clearance (required by both the spousal sponsorship and the rehabilitation application, so we submitted 2 originals), plus an Australia Federal Police clearance (since my husband spent 8 months there in 2006), so they didn't request any additional documents from us.
I guess I should be putting my timeline in my signature lol... Here's our timeline so far:
24 May, 2019 - App received
13 Jul, 2019 - AOR1
13 Jul, 2019 - ECAS IP
16 July, 2019 - MR
16 July, 2019 - Biometrics Fee Payment requested (we didn't pay prior to the initial application submission)
17 July, 2019 - SA
23 July, 2019 - Medical Exam
24 July, 2019 - App transferred to Mississauga VO
1 Aug, 2019 - Medical passed
2 Aug, 2019 - Biometrics Fee Receipt submitted
8 Aug, 2019 - App transferred to LAVO
13 Aug, 2019 - Biometrics requested
27 Aug, 2019 - Biometrics submitted
27 Aug, 2019 - Biometrics passed
No updates since the biometrics were passed. We haven't requested our GCMS notes yet since we're pretty sure it was transferred due to the criminal charges (though it may also be because it is not my husband's first marriage). We'll give them some time before we start hounding them for status updates...
I feel you about the wait... I just want this to be over already, but we've got a long wait ahead of us apparently...
Are there any possible complications you can think of with your application??