The following is entirely my conjuncture, or perhaps more aptly put, my hunch based on following posts throughout this thread and a bit of
digging on my part. There's obviously no way to confirm, nor do I seek any validation. Purely posting to share a thought and to kill time (yawn).
I think a distinction needs to be made between (i) having Sydney (RC-8090) as primary office, and local office (Scarborough/Vancouver/Edmonton/etc) as secondary office, and (ii) having local office as primary office, and RC-8090 for secondary.
I suspect that, for the majority of applicants whose
primary office is RC-8090, they have been, for whatever reason, thrown into Project Endeavour and are now "Endeavour" clients handled by Sydney CPC. I do not know what the heck Project Endeavour is exactly. I only know that (a) there is such a thing as "Endeavour" clients (per reference made by IRCC's internal document disclosed via ATIP request); and (b) the vast majority of the applications handled by Sydney CPC fall under Project Endeavour (40787/44637=91% as of May 2022). See screenshots from ATIP documents obtained from IRCC in the thread linked above for evidence for
(a) and
(b). As most of the folks here in this thread are familiar by now, if your primary office is RC-8090, you are most likely looking at some 9 months of waiting (no movement whatsoever in GCMS) before something happens with LPP (completion; interview request; etc). I am inclined to think that that is how long the queue in Project Endeavour is currently taking. Once Sydney is done with whatever it is that they do in Project Endeavour (which quite evidently includes LPP), they transfer the file back to local/secondary office, which then schedules oath.
Under this conjuncture, those whose primary office is the
local office, albeit with RC-8090 as secondary and assigned to do LPP, are considered "its own clients" of the local office (part of DN), as opposed to CPC Sydney's "Endeavour clients". And because these people are
not Endeavour clients, you see their LPP get completed much faster (way shorter than 9+ months post-test/BG), despite LPP being assigned to RC-8090, than Endeavour clients whose
primary office is RC-8090.
If you are lost by the above, or need a TL;DR, here's a summary:
- RC-8090 as primary office = Endeavour client of CPC Sydney = 9+ months long wait = unlucky
- RC-8090 as secondary office = non-Endeavour client of local office / Domestic Network = maybe slight delay in LPP but nothing like Project Endeavour = lucky
Now with that out of the way, what I'm really curious about (not that I'd ever get to know for sure, but like I said, just killing time here) is
what determines
who gets selected into Project Endeavour. Many years ago a set of citizenship application triage criteria used by IRCC surfaced on the Internet. You can still find them if you do some Googling. But those are obviousy obsolete now, and honestly don't offer much insight at all into Endeavour clients (I say this because I actually looked through the goddamn thing when I was scratching my head about Project Endeavour). I suspect that a certain percentage of people might get randomly selected, if one were to assume that Project Endeavour subjects an application to greater scrutiny and hence might be part of IRCC's Quality Assurance program. For the rest, there must be some sort of triage crtieria, as presented in our applications, that trigger our application to be sorted into Project Endeavour. For example, I did a soft landing and didn't move to Canada for good until a year after becoming PR. My 5-year eligibility period covers that one year of being PR but not living in Canada. Could a scenario like that be one of the criteria for looking at the application more closely under Project Endeavour? (I'll never know
) If your primary office is RC-8090, is there anything in your application that you could think of that
might trigger a triage into Project Endeavour?
One final conjecture, regarding the progression in GMCS "location" under "Paper File". This is a hard one because not everyone requests their notes at every juncture of the processing of their application; and even if the files do capture changes from one juncture to another, there's no guarantee the meaningful changes in "location" was not redacted by ATIP staff (who may not apply redaction criteria uniformly). But anyways, I suspect that the progression of an Endeavour's client is more or less as follows ("location"):
e-Grants PE (or just "e-Grants" if "PE" is redacted)
e-Grants review ready by PM-01 or PM-03
e-Grants DF (decision finalized?)
Again, I present nothing as solid facts other than the screenshots from ATIP documents, so please take everything abovementioned with a pinch of salt and apply ample of critical thinking of your own. At the end of day, none of this really matters because there is pretty much nothing one can do but to wait (or file mandus, I suppose).