SINP opened up another intake...
Am not sure what to make of it. Probably as mentioned above the pending applications are the ones that require someone higher up in the chain to approve/reject because the applicant falls short on a few items. That could explain the delays in decision due to the bottleneck.
The updated statistics on their website for the period Oct-Dec 16 says an average processing time of 3.4 months for EE, which is higher than OID which is at 2.5 months. SINPs goal is to keep it within 4 months. I guess we still have a month or hopefully lesser to go to wait for the outcome.
Keeping Positive though