Not only spouse added cases bro, there were thousands of regular applicants been transferred to local offices only because the central office wants to split some works to local offices. Those applicants didn't do anything, but have to wait over one year more than the applicant didn't transfer. They are really not lucky...
Not accurate Bison. Most regular applications were cleared in 10-12 months top whose cases were going parrallel with us. I had like 20 firneds applied during those time, 15 got it in like less than a year..rest under 15 months. I and on more guy still here. Those who did not added spouse and transferred to LVO were either clear rather quickly or they were one of so called *COMPLEX APPLICATION* meaning either divorce case, dependent turned 18, child custody, documents were not submitted on time or review was required because the officer at CIO was not convinced so instead of straight forward rejecting them they gave them a chance and transferred to their respective province LVO.
But question is not about this, the question is these 15 months and more delay should have been up on the cic website so applicant can make inform decisions. Just before me 2 of my firnds added their spouse and their delay was around 2- 3 months, so I took this option in that spirit.
Tell what applicant would prefer?
A] delay a marriage few months
Benifits:
1] PA become PR
2] Spouse can easily get TRV as his PA has PR and be united
3] even in this case I might have not crosed 15 months or more
or B] Married
1] both are in limbo, certainly separated from each other as a honeymoon package ?
2] PA spending thousands on work permit renews and BOWP and travelling back and forth to see his lady or her Man
3]Spose TRV rejection chances are high
3] will definitely take 15 months more
It's a personal choice but would have made things alot clearer if this delay was anticipated already.