The worst part is, there is no way of contacting the office itself (i have previously written a letter that they have confirmed recipient of and have done nothing about) to tell them that everything is complete for them to progress the application.
It is almost certainly in a queue. Not so much on someone's desk, more like a digital inbox of some sort. Physical file nearby, sure, but the queue is likely digital.
But no bad news is VERY GOOD NEWS. ROUTINE is as good as fresh, hot Poutine, and better for the heart. Routine should be stress-free. Just the WAITING GAME, time to remain in a PATIENCE POSTURE.
So, the "worst part" is actually
NO PROBLEMO. That is good news eh.
But of course, right, for sure, there is no way to inform the responsible processing agent to accelerate the next step of your application ahead of the others in queue. Which is how it should be. Not a problem, but rather how it works and how it should work. (
Squeaky wheels being just an unpleasant noise.)
Next step may be next week. Or next month. Or late in the year. Or early next year. As these thing go, as long as it still goes via the routine track that is GOOD NEWS (especially compared to timelines under the previous government) . . . notwithstanding an epidemic of unrealistic expectations otherwise flooding the forum.
Reminders:
-- IRCC is a bureaucracy, one of Canada's biggest bureaucracies; even the most efficient bureaucracies tend to be less than efficient
-- Canada approaches the grant of Citizenship with deliberate consideration and thus takes its time; some of the time may even be an intentional built-in waiting period, of a sort, to see what, if anything, shakes out of the trees
-- IRCC is currently dealing with a huge surge in applications compared to the number filed in the previous two years, AND
-- at the same time is dealing with extensive changes to forms and requirements (albeit the latter factor should be approaching full adaptation soon, notwithstanding the fact that a big bureaucracy like IRCC is inherently slow to adapt)
Can you advise me the process to order GCSM notes and which information we can get in this notes.
Odds are very high you will NOT receive any information of use by ordering GCMS notes through the ATIP process. The generic form for ATIP is particularly USELESS.
With very, very rare exceptions, obtaining the GCMS notes will NOT illuminate any way to accelerate the process at all.
There are circumstances when obtaining GCMS notes is warranted. So it is not as if it is accurate to say that they are absolutely, always useless. But anyone with a routine application, or with only a minor deviation from routine (finger print request for example), does NOT need to obtain the GCMS notes, and is almost certain to not benefit from obtaining GCMS notes.
What they really need to do is what all the other Routinely processed applicants do: WAIT. That's it. That's the game. That's how it works. Unless the applicant qualifies for urgent processing, there is nothing much at all an applicant can do to make it go any faster.
Honk if you hate to wait, sure. Or if you want to mimic the Canadian Goose. Or New York cab and uber drivers. You will still have to wait though.
