So....talked to a lady named Heidi at IRCC.....she told me that they are currently processing December 16th applicants. Explained to her that I know of some friends that sent in towards the end of December and that they have their AOR. Also explained that I just was curious if I had been assigned a temporary application number yet. She was hesitant to answer my question but after telling her I've been going through this process for 2 years and having the application already sent back to me once, I just wanted to verify that they had received it since I sent it by mail.
She FINALLY looked it up through my UCI number and was able to see that it has NOT been put into the system yet but it has been received and I did not have a temporary application number. I did ask her if I would have already received this back if there was an error and she didn't really give me an answer so once again, Im still sitting in limbo.
My application, just to advise those who haven't been reading back on the forums, is a bit complicated because I have a crazy ex who is refusing to let me get one of my daughter's birth certificate and won't allow her to get the medical exam even though I have explained to him that its just to process MY application and it doesn't affect her at all because she is a non-accompanying dependent.....I did send a letter of explanation with my application citing this and that in a few months I can at least go and get her birth certificate myself and send in later. I did not submit for the OWP because I just really felt it would convolude the process and only renewed my visitor record separately (approved thankfully pretty quickly) and felt that I could submit online or possibly flagpole it. I'm at the point that if I ever get the AOR, I'm just going to apply for the OWP online because I'm literally so stressed with this whole process that I want to scream.....
Thank you everyone for your support. This forum has been absolutely awesome but I really just feel like my application is SO complicated that I'm going to end up getting it back again and have to restart everything all over again.....