My thoughts on these criteria that CIC are apparently screening is that of the 4 th security would I think is the only one should take time as they would conduct background check on the countries that the applicant have lived in the past 10 years.
Criminality If my understanding is right, is that they will just run the name on their system and if there are any " hits " on their system in Canada.If there is they will ask for a RCMP clearance. As In my case, they ask for PCC which did not include Canada where we have been staying here for 2 years. They replied and informed me that there is no need.
Eligibility as we already have a nomination and information from our employers, it shouldn't take that much time.
Medical they would be getting there result from the accredited clinics so they would just follow if the applicant is fit.
As we have been to 3 countries in 10 years , this might be the reason until now we are not even on IP yet after more than 9 months
You probably right.
I have worked in Qatar and Dubai, That is probably why it takes months(Feb 2014) when CIC created security checks on my file the same they created file for criminality