none of the lawyers have an inside information. and why would CIC give them memos with such an info.
When you go to a lawyer (who is an immigration consultant in 90% of the cases - not a lawyer) and you pay thousands of dollars... they should tell you that submitting the application through them will not give you any advantages or speed up the proccess.
Like the guy that posted yesterday that CIC called his company and after talking to the manager, they wanted to talk to him, it seems a scam. seems very suspicious that it happened that CIC announced that they do not make phone calls asking more info or details.
When we submit the application, there is one of the parts where it says interview - needed or not or whatever. I don't think CIC will call and chitchat with the applicant. They say we're going to be contacted through our account if they need more information from us.
So it seems to me that there are a lot of ppl spreading weird info and messing up with our already enough messed up heads.
I'm not saying the guy didn't get the phone call, but I find it hard to believe that it was the actual CIC officer.
So what I'll believe and look for is ppl's timelines, and updates made on it.
The she/he said, they said, I've heard, they think is just a waste of time.