no news. IRCC is not transparent on how much their work load and processing capacity is. they just take on work. Same situation is happening in every other commonwealth country like New Zealand and Australia, but people reached out to media and made the immigration ministers give concrete numbers. I am right now reaching out to reporters at local and national news demanding response or updates from IRCC. reach your local congressmen too. this is the only way. make noise and demand answers. based on what I've heard from New Zealand, which processes 30,000 cases a year with 70 employees, they now face 160,000 cases. which will at least take 3 years to process. Canada has way more applicants and will take longer to process.