stonelzl said:
My story may helps.
I submitted my application in Aug 2014. I called help desk in Sep and asked about my case as I will be outside of Canada for a month. I was told it is too early to call and they are just opening the file from June. So I suspect my file will be opened in Nov/Dec. I did not get any notification until Jan 2015 and nothing shows up in CIC web site for my case status. I called help desk and agent told me that they have opened all files from Aug in Nov 2014. He is pretty sure that my file is lost and suggested me to re-submit. I re-prepared my application in 2 days and online paid extra application fee. On the day I plan to mail my application out, I got email from CIC confirming that they have received my application. What I can say? So, base on my experience, my suggestion is to wait for another month and keep calling help desk every week. Good luck!
Thank you for sharing your experience, I appreciate it!
It is very true they may end up finding my application, however the problem is the new law will begin pretty soon.
I don't have the luxury to wait for another month. One of the call agents told it is alright to submit 2nd application, even after
that the 1st one is being found. So I will probably wait two more weeks before sending out another application.
I am actually laughing myself since seems I always got bad luck with CIC, my PR application got rejected by mistake and after arguing with the officers they re-opened my case. Now I am applying citizenship and this happened, lol