CIO has already charged the applicants of 4th December,2014. It seems that CIO is working at highest possible speed.
I think that delay in first draw of express entry can be associated with exhausting of applications of FSWP2014. It was supposed to be the last week of January and up till now there is no date declared by the CIC for the first draw of Express Entry.
Because if first draw of Express Entry is conducted then upon first draw, the candidates who would have received LOI, would be required to submit the documentary evidence of everything that they have described in their EE profile. Now there is still a question mark that how these documents will be submitted to CIO, either by scanning and uploading to Express Entry Webpage of CIC OR they would ask to send these documents by courier in the same manner as we do it now to the address which they will specify. OR another option would be that upon getting of LOI you will be required to submit all of your documents to the visa office assigned to you. And CIC have already increased the number of visa offices worldwide.
This will provide an advantage to the December applicants initial stages of case processing, because their cases will be processed a bit faster till AOR stage.
Regards,George,
Doha,Qatar