Monkeyfish said:
What are GCMS notes and how are they useful? Thanks!
GCMS = "Global Case Management System"
It's the CIC software system for tracking and managing immigration paperwork. It replaced two older systems (FOSS and CAIPS) that were used for inland and outland applications.
The notes provide you with a representation of the state of your application as recorded in the computer system. It's a low information density report (e.g., 30 pages of mostly useless detail) and the formatting is primitive (it appears to be a series of SQL select statements spewed into a PDF format. The entries are in reverse chronological order and divided by various categories.)
When you get them, best to go to the end of the report and start reading the notes (from end forwards). That's usually where the bulk of the information content is located.