Hello
Happy to find this forum and the spreadsheet, hoping someone might be able to offer some info.
Applied for sponsorship/permanent residency/open work permit for my chilean husband Sept 2020.
Received prospective application number Sept 28th and haven't heard anything since.
Because we heard about the extreme backlog with outland applicants (even though we are inland) we started to get worried, thinking that maybe our application wouldn't even be looked at till next year. So in April he applied for IEC - Working holiday permit. He got a response within a week and his application is now in process. He got a biometrics request for this and has completed those.
I'm just worried that somehow this will affect/delay the sponsorship/permanent residency/open work permit process? Anyone out there that can quell some of my (probably unnecessary) worry (because there are no real humans that I can reach at IRCC). The biggest issue may have simply been spending unnecessary cash on another application.