all of that because of damascus office shutdown . beirut ,amman offices are small and not ready for immigration process. it is not related to the number of applicant or backlog but to number of officers and capabilities of processing files . Cairo office for example has the biggest number with less time i think even part of applications processed in montreal . turkey office is responsible of iranian + turkish . amman offfice ( iraq ,syria,jordan,west bank ) + hundreds of family sponsers specilally from candian iraqis all done in amman office. otherwise quebec applicants ay amman office are only 392 persons (applicant + their families) as i remeber . the queta for last year for amman offfcie is 375 visas but they only processed around 27