Guys, here's my timeline PLEASE READ THIS:
Applied: May 3rd, 2015
Blank Updates: 1 every month
Request for $100: August 18th
Approval: Nov 26th, 2015 (203 DAYS!! ALL TIME RECORD(?), I THINK)
Mail Delivery: Sent out on Nov 26th so hopefully soon
I am another one of you guys who has been through the same pain, but for a bit longer I suppose. It took ALMOST 7 MONTHS (1 week short) for my case to come into approval today on November 26th. I'm assuming it's an all time high in this category (nothing to be proud of though!). All I wanted to share with you guys is not to lose hope and to be patient. I know you've probably been told this many times, but I'm certain yours is just around the corner; it's just the matter of time and well for the most part, "LUCK" if you will...I guess if May applicants were lucky this wouldn't even happen to them. A few of my friends applied in late June and got theirs about a month ago and that's when I wanted to give up.
Regardless of all the troubles this unexpected has caused me, I'm still thankful that I received it. My case is rather very complicated due to the fact that I had to leave Canada before my approval because of family emergency. This made me lose my implied status which I was not worried about much since I didn't even have a TRV to get back to Canada, so all I could do was to wait the endless days and keep logging in to myCIC account every single day hoping that boring "Submitted" status would change to "Approved". And finally today, the wait is over. Now I gotta apply for a TRV from outside the country and then I will be able to go back! All this in addition to many job opportunities that I've missed so far... My intake from this rather bitter experience is that things do happen for a reason and for me, it provided more than enough time to spend with my family since I have been able to see them only for a week or so every year, for the past 6 years!!!
This forum kept me hopeful and sane and I knew one day it would be my turn. Special thanks to JUBEAR and all other for moral support and for keeping us from going insane; it was much needed.
Best of luck to all of you guys and I hope you all have a happy time and a great future in this beautiful country!
Cheers...