The tracker for the sponsor isn’t very helpful at this point. The principal applicant can access letters from IRCC in his Secure Account and see more info in the tracker. As I understand it, the sponsor can’t link an application to their Secure Account — that’s mainly for the principal...
At long last, just received the biometrics request. Tracker isn’t updated to reflect this request, and doesn’t show any ghost updates either so there’s a lag there. Happy to see some movement, however, after 3 months.
At least it’s not personal, hopefully!
Timeframe was 8 months when I applied on the 31st, and 11 months the following day when they updated it. Something happened — they’ve allocated resources to other applications or something. It will happen eventually!
We applied on the 31st (inland) and apart from the AOR sent to sponsor, total silence and no further requests. The last ghost update in the tracker was almost a month ago. We went ahead and completed a medical exam for an OWP app.