Hello Paul
As everyone knows that there is 350 cap this year and when the cap will reach is totally depend upon number of application received everyday from around the globe.
Its very hard to know how many application received everyday at NSOI. We have spreadsheet which is quite useful to know NSOI is processing which date of application but still the data is very less to calculate how many applicants got AOR till today or cap is reached or not.
I tried to calculate the maximum numbers of application received everyday at NSOI by taking the reference of 2014 RLMD stream
As per that in 8 working days NSOI got 150 applications so according to that if NSOI received application in same frequency this time from people around the world then
350 cap will reach by January applicants. so according to this January applicants are safe.
Another fact is last year there was not much eligibility criteria to apply under RLMD stream so might be possible that more people send their application to NSOI, as there was no IELTS requirement and no 67 points criteria. so may be because of this 150 cap is reached just in 8 days.
And this year NSNP criteria is almost same like FSW so may be the cap of 350 will not be filled by only January applicants. February applications may be in the Race and may be March applications too.
There is another fact that people around the world are very much eager to move to Canada and 50% of them are always ready with their documents to apply on same day when any program opens So No one knows when 350 cap will reached.
In our spreadsheet there are 54 January applicants and everyone got AOR except 2. So if we imagine this is the actual data than 350 cap would not be filled till April applicants. And I wish this imagination may become true and all applicants in our SS got nomination.
AOR is just a completeness check of your application, that you fill your application in correct way and send all required documents, Next stage is assessment stage which will decide you will get nomination or not. So AOR can not decide you will get nominated or not. It tell us that we got a golden opportunity to show our eligibility, you can say its just entry ticket to participate in race, you will win or not it will be decided how did you perform i.e. how much perfect are your documents.
Wish you all the best. Please make entry in SS
below are the links in my signature.
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