Come on now you guys all this crap talking.... For the period of say about April - say June when it took CIC has short as less than a week to open application when others had to wait 3 months. I don't remember this massive non-belief or this about copying & pasting e-cas just to prove. Its hard for 98% of us with the wait and not being able to support ourselves & all that's why we should be more focused on being happy when a fellow one of us makes it out quickly. I don't know as much about the process as most of you do, but I think less technical & political things can contribute to lengthy processing too eg. In a room there is tons of applications to be processed but if I am to be honest with my self I wouldn't readily choose one of the 7lbs (tons of papers).
Maybe too with the July applicants is../ they just implemented this new bar-code systems, so they tested them right away (beta testing, to see if the system could work)
As for calling CIC, I really don't think that will help any, I can testify that I know 2 people that has permanent residence in far less than the timeline predicted by CIC call center or website. I think of course call agents know of fast approving situations but maybe are bound by job to only state info on website, beside its being recorded and monitored so they don't want to loose their job. Correction I know 3 PR holders in less the timeline stated, here is a little proof it happens but a call agent will never admit it, PR in less than 1 month.
http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20110701/SECHELT0101/307019972/-1/sechelt/sechelt-doctor-gets-back-to-work