No AOR for May / June/ post 26 June
Every one is checking this forum on daily basis, few members on hourly basis – lot of guess work & motivation to each other. we have no updates on CIC website since 23 Aug 2010, increases the curiosity what is happening.
Looks like the things really went out of control, with the application handling capacity (tolerance limit) of CIC, in the time frame of Q2 2010 (April June). CIC has received unexpected number of applications and not able to cop up. This may be one of the reasons on 25 June 2010 CIC came up with a new rule, even did not wait for June month to be over. As per old statistics CIC each month gets 50,000+ applications (given on CIC website http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/data-release/2010-Q1/index.asp ) but this time it might have broken the past records with some multiple.
As CIC has May & June 2010 AOR pending they may only issue AOR for post 26/6 after that. The reasons I think are:
1. CIC might have formed a new team to check if the documents are (CIO + VO specific) attached at the time of receiving the courier.
Once they clear the application (receiving point) it may go to the standard (old) process of charging the credit cards / DD. Once CC/BD team clears the application again goes through the standard process of checking the CIO specific forms and getting first approval AOR. The forms are same as pre 26/6 so the above process would be same. No major differences are mentioned in OP6 also, till first AOR.
2. Once the first AOR is issued the new process would be taking over at CIO (detailed evaluation & eligibility checking 67 marks process).
So as the process of first AOR looks similar the post 26/6 people may have to wait till pre June 2010 is clear with AOR.