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This is my interpretation or understanding of the process. It may be wrong.
  • The Sydney office sends you AOR email on a first come first serve basis. Also, it depends on when Canada post delivered / who received / how the applications are stacked / how they are taken out and who filed it. So, there might be a plus or minus 1 week variation in FIFO.
  • After sending you AOR, Sydney office sends your application to your nearest visa office. I believe, they are sending physical paper application. So, now it depends on when Sydney office mailed the application (I believe they do in batches), how far is your visa office from Sydney, when they receive it, who receives it, who handles your application, etc. So, to se "in process" it takes again a week or two or even three based on the factors I just mentioned.
  • Afterwards it's wholly based on your visa office (Ottawa in my case). A lot of factors again - work force, work load, efficiency of the officers application complexity, vacations, etc.

Do you know hoy many Visa offices they have? I'm from Saskatoon, is there a local office for SK?
 
@pilliow can you please update my record as below?
ECAS in process March 26.
 
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pls. update my AOR date to February 26. Thank you.
 
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Hello, please update my status changed to "In Process" on March 19. Thank you
 
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I was checking my application status just now and it is in process =)
"We started processing your application on March 21, 2019."
 
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received AOR march 29. thanks.
Do you happen to know when the application was received? If not, please let us know once your ecas is active. Cheers.