Hello, my wife has applied to me for outland spousal sponsorship in July and recently we called CIC and they gave us a temporary application number and they said that they are checking my file and if all the documents required are attached they will give us a permanent file number, my question is what this temporary application number can help me with and what does AOR stands for, does this file number means I can start calculating my 12 months temporary application number temporary application number processing tim, how long does it usually take to give us a permanent file number? thank you in advance.