I think , that’s where the whole issue was...Sydney ,NS office stopped working.. your file has to be physically mailed to your local office.. then your application status becomes ‘In Process’... they issued AOR in your case, but lock down happened before sending your file to local office.... so your file status stuck at ‘ app received’... now that they are back, they will send out the applications to corresponding local offices and then ideally, electronic processing activities shall start... big relief now that we know that sydney office is back to work.... though NS and other Maritime provinces didn’t had many cases, these fed workers didn’t start working before... now, atleast they are back to office...