I am a Canadian too but our application is being processed in London office because my spouse in from Pakistan.
I see the frustration at LVO and NDVO pages and it's truly heart breaking. It has been more than a year since I got married, and we haven't cohabited properly, max a month on my holidays. We wanted to have a child but it didn't happen because of short time we met. This process is ridiculous.
I totally agree that spouses should be given TRV like other countries, so that they can be with their partners, and meanwhile the processing carries on.
I doubt the actual process takes 1 year. The main area here is deciding if the marriage is genuine because until sponsorship approval it hardly takes two months on average. For PA processing a lot of people send emails and their cases are yet to be reviewed and when it does it may be takes them 1 week to decide whether to approve or issue PFL/interview. And we wait 6-7 months for this one week.
And if it's about background checks then I call bullshit on this. Like you mentioned how can Mississauga office process BGC is one week while NDVO and LVO take 10 years? Are they entering potentially dangerous people that can harm our country? Or what about visitors that can come here within 2 months, how do you check if they won't be a threat in a couple of weeks but for Principal Applicant it takes months?
This all process is a mess. We have wasted 1 year of our lives for nothing.
Fair enough, don't give PR straight away but at least issue a TRV.
Check and verify everything but the process should be just and with fairly similar timeframe for all categories.
But they won't understand until a year of their lives also gets wasted.
