Folk
I feel sorry for those who were expecting July1, 2015 as last date, very sad :'(, frankly if this rule came into force somewhere around September or October, 2015 would have been a better idea, as lot of guys would have saved from waiting one or two more year.
Accordingly to my estimate from this Forum around 90% of the people can be saved from frustration of waiting for around one or two more years. It is not the case of all the applicant that they want to run away from Canada, hardly 5% wants to do that but waiting under the sword of "intent to reside" for another year is frustrating (in my opinion).
My feeling goes with new applicants.