1. Just got $170 refund from IRCC (info: Citizenship & IMM ON-L). I guess this is a Biometric service fee (85 x 2) for me and my wife - they use my previous biometric when i applied Study visa in 2016 and my profile on gckey has a biometric number. So I can assume that this is biometric excemption due to covid, can't I ?
2. Also have a ghost update last night, as I research on google, "Background Check changes to “Your application is in progress. We will send you a message when we start your background check". How long will the background check process be? Hopefully this is a good sign.
Good luck everyone.