I completely disagree. CIO very clearly says that the FINAL eligibility review has been done. Otherwise it would be called the Penultimate Eligibilty Review!
The ECAS status "Visa office eligibility review complete" almost certainly relates to the old system and it's possible/probable that the ECAS system itself has not been modified to house the new system. Therefore if ECAS is changed to say "Visa office eligibility review complete" for anyone it is probably just the background checks.
And given that recently everyone's ECAS now says once again that medicals have been received, it's fair to say that we cannot trust ECAS as far as we can throw it.
Please remember CIO and CHC offices are still ALL CIC (Citizenship and Immigration Canada). I strongly believe that if they found someone eligible at a stage where they could otherwise receive a refund, sent it to their satellite office and then decided the person was not eligible, with no information altered between the two, but pocketed all of the processing fee anyway, then one would have a very strong case for procedural unfairness against CIC. I do not believe they would get away with it, in short.
Once your final eligibility review at CIO is passed IMO visa office CANNOT fail your application for reasons of NOC duties not matching or not having 67 points etc. Only if they did an employment verification check and the results were unconvincing, or something along similar lines, could they fail your application prior to medical requests IMO.
So any "eligibility review" done at visa office is very poorly worded, since really they refer to background checks.
IMO if kpkinnera did indeed receive a NER from visa office then he should query this immediately. It may simply be a mistake (we know CIC make enough of them). If they say it is not a mistake, are they going to issue a refund? If not then IMO they are guilty of extortion.
Finding someone eligible at CIO, and then NOT eligible with exactly the same information at VO = a rather immoral way of CIC to pocket all the application fees.
Wayne.