i agree on that thought as well, however, as i have lived in Canada for a year, it seems that immigration is the only thing in that country that runs so bad and slow and faulty. U will see, when u land there, u will issue a SIN, Bank account, Health card and have dinner in less than a couple of hours!. On a side note, i see OINP nominating one or two applicants from Oct, Nov applicants every now and then, so i am beginning to lose faith in the batch nominations theory, i mean they are not at a complete No nominations policy right now, yet again maybe those are the applicants left over the desks from the old individual processing way, rather than the mass processing pattern. On a call with the operator guy from oinp, regarding a change of passport copy that i had sent earlier, he told me i can see it in the system on the screen, its clear that things are going digital over there.