I check my data. Refer to the following link. No big difference of processing time from AOR to PAL among provinces. I guess Federal assesses eligibilty with their own data which provices already provided, no need to contact the province additionally. Let's see. Did you contact cic to know your eligibility pass. You might get passed eligibility without PAL.
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