Most people used to get their PR applications approved in 6-9 months historically, so SLAs weren't that lose. In 2022-23, processing indicates SLAs are doing fine.Historically, their SLA targets have been about as accurate as a random number generator would be.
The 5 months is for apps that started 5 months ago, and 5 months ago that was at like 20 months so that figure also means practically nothing, given that it could be back up to 20 months or down to 1 month for applications sent today...
Not that I'm certain they've slowed down, of course, as I only have anecdotal evidence in the form of the different places where people post their timelines. But AFAIK that anecdotal evidence is as good as any other evidence we have.
I'm curious as to where you got the 110 days though? Doesn't seem to match most recent applicants' (public) timelines?
About average processing time, it is something that a judge would use commonly to squash/not squash Writ of Mandamus. Which makes me believe that they'd not play lose with processes and average processing times at the same time.
>But AFAIK that anecdotal evidence is as good as any other evidence we have.
Could be confirmation bias too. Everyone's choice on their source of truth here since we have no source of truth.
About BGC, the only ever public doc is old, but that's all what we (even immigration lawyers) use: https://www.getgcms.com/blog/what-is-security-screening-comprehensive-guide/