Edmontonbound said:
@ RWilco...I'm afraid I don't agree with your view point. If it was true, then applicants applied to Ottawa would be receiving PPRs. But that's not the case. I think we can't ever be sure. There is something that is impeding the process not just for the 2011 applicants, but over all for everyone who applied in North America region. While I fully understand your plight and frustration, I don't agree with you that CPP-O is deliberately ignoring 2011 applicants because they don't have an incentive as long as the processing time goes.
Further, despite the fact that all the predictions here by many so called experts, the expertise remains awfully inadequate. After all these are all predictions and thus remain mere speculation. Nothing less nothing more!
@EdmontonBound -- I agree that we can't really be sure exactly what is going on, since the information we are working with is so limited and in many cases unofficial, due to CIC's veil of secrecy and inconsistent communications. One of the best things about this forum is that due to the generosity of the members, we see CIC correspondence that we otherwise would have no exposure to, and a little more insight into what is happening with our PNP applications in general. I've certainly found it very helpful.
For a summary of case histories, however, Trackitt is the most complete data source I'm aware of, and although not perfect (there's some obvious bad data), I see no reason to doubt what it shows overall.
http://www.trackitt.com/canada-immigration-trackers/provincial-nominees
Looking through the PNP trackitt tables, there's some interesting things to notice. If you sort by the "application sent to visa office" date column (click on the column header), you start to see a measurable amount of green (approved) when you reach dates of Jan 2012 and earlier, which means a lot of applications that were submitted in Sept/Oct/Nov 2011 (plus some later) have already been approved, while many of us that applied several months earlier have yet to be even be assigned to an officer. If you click on the 'Passport Requested' column header, you can also get a sense of how many PPRs have been going out over the last few months as well. This seems to indicate a drop off in PPRs over the last couple months, although this could also be an effect of people not updating their trackitt status very quickly.
So while CPP-O may not be deliberately ignoring 2010/2011 applicants, they certainly don't appear to be considering application date for processing priority either. So the question remains... what method, if any, does CIC use to prioritize processing applications?
