Thank you for the update. But I have personally heard from few people that their process was completed within 6-8 Months, End to End. And I read online that it takes 2-3 Months after Medical...So I am not sure... Lets hope for the best.
Americans applying outland can have their PR process completed in about six months. In some other cases, some really straight forward cases can also be fast, but that's quite rare.
Up until recently medicals happened at the six point mark, halfway through the process. Getting the medical request generally meant you still had about six months to go, provided everything else went well. Now they've changed it and people do medicals a couple of months into the process. This doesn't change the actual overall average processing times, which are still at 12 months.
If you applied in August, count on August and hope for possibly June/July (if the recent speedier processing times hold). Don't expect anything sooner than that as it will just make you stress for no reason.