I am a July 31st applicant - and still nothing!
Although, I was able to get through to IRCC this morning and spoke to a very nice girl.
She basically said, yes she sees our application was received, and is still in the first step of approval, therefore no file number yet
She did mention that there was no notes about our app missing anything, and no notes about it needing to be returned
She also mentioned, that IF an application needed to be returned, it would have happened already
She then told me that if I havent heard anything by the first week of December (
!!!), to call back and inquire again
Trying VERY hard to be patient, and respectful of the waiting times.. i just hope that this delay in the first step, will not delay the rest of the process