Hahaha! Fresh applicants are always so anxious to see their status changed to "In Process"! It goes without saying that closing the oldest files is what should be done in priority. Last year has been very hectic in Ankara (and all over CIC); therefore, you should feel blessed you won't have to wait as long as many of the older applicants had to wait. What killed me was seeing new files being processed (and sometimes closed) while no one in Ankara had even opened our file yet! It took them almost five months to give our file a first look, then one month to contact my husband for an interview, then one more month before the interview. More than six months after Ankara received our file, it was finally in process! Did I also mention it took Mississauga three months to complete step 1 for files received last spring? It's been more than 11 months and I'm still waiting... You guys are lucky and don't realize it