Masonb6888 said:
What I've both heard and seen is that OUTLAND applicants don't usually get AOR2 notification generally at all. specially if they're from the Ottawa office..
Looking back into the Jan one and talking to some people from Nov who have already received their DM. They said a ton of people never got AOR2 or third line ECAS. I was told that if you application in MyCIC says "application in progress" anywhere take that as a tentative AOR2.
I did email Ottawa office just to confirm that my application had made it there and everything seemed to be in order since it had been some time since MyCIC was updated. I tried to make the email very innocent since I don't want to bother anything. haven't heard back yet.
An email may get things moving. For our application, we are waiting to hear from VO in Mexico. They are notoriously slow. The next thing for us should be getting the PCC request to submit fingerprints to the RCMP. Even if we get an AOR2 email, I think the PCC will signal that there is movement at the VO with our app. In our MyCIC account, background check, eligibility and final decision were all indicated as in progress after we got AOR1/request to submit Schedule A and have not changed since then. Also nothing has changed on eCAS either, except that it says Decision made on Sponsor side, since we submitted schedule A and it does not say in progress under the 3rd line on PA side.
To me, any change in the status in MyCIC account or eCAS at this point means that the file is active again.