Before pandemic, AOR took only a few months (a couple of months in many cases). Just IRCC used COVID as an excuse to delay everything. Now we become cheerful when getting AOR after 8 months..Is it me or is the average AR to AOR time falling to approximately 8 months? Last year we saw so many people get AOR after 12, 15 and at worst 18 months. Hope these timelines keep falling the way they have.
I will be happy if the whole process can take less than 11 months, the service standard. But who knows. Hopefully they really speed up things.
Meanwhile, people who had F12 status 11/13 (before turning back to 7 for everyone) are still left behind without AOR for most cases. IRCC needs to fix their own technical issues and serves people in the first-come, first-served basis, not a random lottery.