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I would replace the term "great improvement" with feeble band-aid. It's like putting a band-aid on a big steaming heap of dung. I wonder how many months of backlog the creation of this program invented.

That's how they reduce backlog, they can't do it by actually processing applications, so they do it by requesting documents they already have. Once you re-submit anything you are outside of normal processing and can no longer check the status of your application. You're almost better off if...

Of course I am.

Again, I don't know why some people are just able to use the photos from their application. It seems like ours were just completely ignored. I landed October 9th 2015, and the appointment letter stated clearly to bring new photos that were exactly the same size as the original ones we sent in...

It usually takes between 40 and 400 days.

It changed January 3rd 2016, which is after December 2015, therefore you're screwed just like the rest of us.

Everyone who had to send new photos is screwed. Doesn't matter how many you send. They go to some backwoods office in the middle of nowhere, never to be looked at again. Any re-sends are outside of normal processing, so there is no longer any timeline they need to pretend to be mindful of. I'm...

Theoretically, 3 to 4 days longer than it takes for email... In practice, months or years longer. Sometimes CIC forgets to mail things, forgets to create documents, mails your stuff to the wrong applicant, etc. You know, that kinds of things you could expect of a bag of lobotomized doorknobs...

CIC needs to go into the garbage. We need a new ministry, start from scratch.

Our DM came via normal mail. It's a fantastic mystery how it ever arrived at all.

Called again today. They don't know anything. This time the agent tried to contact the useless bag of compost in Nova Scotia that does the PR cards, but they are all useless turds and couldn't tell her anything. Couldn't even tell her if the new pictures were received (which is interesting...

This is a bit infuriating. According to the call center the reason they couldn't accept the old format for applications received well in advance of the new guideline (I'm talking 3 months in advance) is because the machine that did the old cards broke. So either that was just smoke, or they...

Sorry Flo, no one landing in 2015 will be getting PR cards if they didn't already get them in 2015. That's the CIC backlog reduction strategy.

How did you have the old format? It's been in effect since January 3rd.

Your file probably did get forgotten, placed on some desk somewhere, or someone fat sat on it, or put a box of donuts on it. Either way, there's nothing you can do. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink, especially if instead of a horse it's just a cart full of manure...

They don't process applications in order, it's luck of the draw. Sorry you're stuck in this vortex.

Yeah that's pretty common. They're generally idiots. You should have brought in a bill from the future.

They are stupid. That's why there's separate sheets. The same reason they have like 15 scattered OWP fees you have to pay instead of one "OWP fee". Stupid stupid stupid people.

To my eyes these guidelines appear to be identical. Here is the passport guideline: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/passport/apply/photos.asp Passport: Taken in person by a commercial photographer. 50 mm wide X 70 mm high (2 inches wide X 2- 3/4 inches long) and sized so the height of the face...

Two passport size pictures. Good luck ever getting that card, you're in my boat now. It's it hilarious that it took them 5 months to figure out your pictures needed to be resubmitted? Just imagine how many more months it's going to take them to finally get you your card.