Rimi, Chris:
I just went throughout the 2014 spreadsheet and of the applications listed there, 910 were sent to NDVO. In comparison, London got 276 and Ottawa 156. No wonder then that NDVO has slowed down considerably and London and otttawa are looking faster. Those guys just got bombarded real bad.
I don't see any new passport requests being sent out of NDVO at all since, I believe, July. So, it's not as if they've moved on to newer apps and ours are stuck in limbo. I think it will be they way it was back in June. After a couple of months of no action, suddenly they sent out everyone's 'started processing' and 'med req' from my jan application to rimis March one and April ones too at around the same time!