Yeah, the immigration process is a total shit show.
I wouldn't recommend anyone to immigrate to Canada anymore, unless they are from a third world country and unhappy there.
Canada is shaping up to become a third world country and what IRCC is pulling can only be described as unethical. Over the years, they have purposely reduced the existing information transparency for visa applicants:
- First, they had done away with the e-CAS system
- Then, starting with 2021, they had removed the progress bar in MyCIC
Their process specs aren't all bad per se, but their implementation is lackluster. The only reason there's a need to order GCMS notes is their reduced level of transparency regarding visa application status. They don't give a shit about real existential problems that immigrants have as a result of their inefficient and ineffective process implementation.
Literally hundreds of thousand visa applicants have to suffer for it per year.
Worldwide, Canada has done some pretty good marketing to present herself as a bountiful country to immigrate to. In reality, it's us immigrants who bring in a lot of money into Canada to be fleeced by learning institutions, immigration consultants and lawyers and lots of other service providers such as auto insurance who charge us 2x - 3x the fees they charge Canadians and PRs.
Going back is no veritable option, since we've already invested so much. We'd be going back piss poor. And the country we emigrated from sucks even more.
Unless you have the press intervening on your behalf (for example:
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/frustration-over-delays-in-pr-card-and-citizenship-applications-1.5417804), you're out of luck and completely at the mercy of IRCC bureaucrats.