Hi Kiran k can you please explain what happens in IP2
If your file is at Ottawa most candidates have applications already approved in IP2, but generally it means that application has passed primarily checks and Visa Officer checks the file once again to be in order and finalises and passes all checks and PPR is issued. Some people receive verification call to employers sometimes at this stage also, this is when Visa Officer decides to a random quality check or has some doubt in file, this is very rare though and mostly all Visa officers pass the file as recommended by a case analyst.
Check the post below-
Stages of Application- AOR>Medical Pass>IP1>NA2>IP2>PPR
IP1 happens when your BGC goes to "in progress" for the first time from the default "not applicable" immediately after you pass medicals, sometimes it happens few days before medicals also. Give or take a few days. This stage lasts from few hours to 15 days on average before it again changes to "not applicable" (normally referred to as NA2 on the forum). As this change can be very quick and can only be ssen if you check CIC account twice or thrice a day regularly, many candidates miss it. Wordings of IP1 can be anything from "your application is in progress.........." or "next step to......" etc. Wordings keep on changing. IP1 is indicative of R10 check and it being changed to NA2 indicates that R10 check (check for completeness of documents i.e whether you have submitted all docs required by CIC properly or not, this is only a quantitative check and not qualitative) was successful and passed. IP1 can last from few hours to few days.
Next stage is NA2, here background remains "not applicable". This stage lasts for 14-40 days and even more varying from case to case.
At this stage criminality, eligibility and security are done mostly. After this stage again the background changes to "in progress" for the second time, this is IP2 stage, wording could be "we are processing......" etc. At this stage your application is checked for all checks one last time by the Visa Officer and finalised. This stage may last from 2-15 days ideally. After this PPR is issued.
