I am very curious to see how CIC are going to do background checks for companies across the world, such as employment verification. For some countries the business will not be open during CIC opening hours, so how do they phone the company to verify your employment?
Anyway, it seems the first thing anyone is likely to hear is a rejection after eligibility review. Since they have apparently done all these reviews for July, August and September applicants I find it hard to believe that not a single one of those 100+ applicants on the forum has been rejected (although would be delighted if that were the case). This lends me to believe they are still "holding off" with sending rejection letters. Looking at the new system I can see no reason for them to delay sending letter after eligibility review stage.
One thought is that rejection after eligibility review will almost certainly be in writing rather than by email, since it will contain the full returned application, and we have seen such returned applications take a long time - from a couple of weeks, to months - to get back to the recipient.
So it's conceivable they may have already sent rejected applications back. If so I would expect to see reports over the next few weeks, certainly by Christmas.
But if we're optimistic we could of course consider the possibility that every single one of us passed our eligibility review
Wayne.