yeah, the screenshots of what i have seen make it seem pretty useless.
It is just counting days to the 6 month mark. Not very helpful.
The message seems to be "don't call us before 6 months are up"
this is the email I got
Your application now has a progress bar. The progress bar shows the time elapsed since we received your application. It gives you an estimated completion date based on our latest processing times.
Take a look and tell us what you think.
my wife who is my dependent got an email about having a progress bar on her profile. Weird.
I can't log in for some reason at the moment.
I haven't gotten any email though
apparently CIC is going to let individuals know when they can see the bar in their profile. Doesn't seem like anybody on this forum has seen anything yet.
Here you go, the lucky guy's post.
https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/october-2018-aor-join-here.587953/page-40#post-7391405
I was wrong, it wasn't 40 days, it was 33 days for this guy :p