Misplaced is my word for lack of a better explanation, nobody has actually told me that's the case, nobody from CIC would ever admit something like that. You could call it a whole bunch of circumstantial evidence. Look at the excel tracking sheets, apps from July 24-Aug 14, nobody got AOR's until about a week ago, meanwhile the apps after mid Aug thru to 1st week of Sept were getting them as if our apps were never there in the queue. Also my wife is on a FB page for apps from the Philippines, most of them are not on this forum and it is the same story with them.
As I said above they are now near the end of July in issuing AOR's so if they were misplaced then they now have been located and are being processed, so keep an eye on the tracking sheet and you can see when they are getting near your app. I don't believe it is a co-incidence that 3 weeks worth of apps, all in a row could have all been held up for any other reason.
Nothing we can do about it, things are now moving so sit tight and wait, hopefully all cleared up soon.
Cheers