My AOR is same like yours guys, 24 Nov. I’m FSWO. I received GCMS notes issued on 15 January (On 13 I gave my fingerprints). Officially first page of GCMS said that criminality was passed, but deep in the Notes I saw that actually they only went through 2 PPCs of our 3 and put 3d one in Review Required, and the Fingerprints were sent to other countries and they were supposed to receive the response from US and others and check it around 4 February. Like around 2 February there was a GU and it changed my Fake IP2 on Criminality in the IRCC website to IP1. Since then nothing changed. It just says that the Criminality wasn’t started and they’ll let me know when it will start (which won’t be the case).
My takeaway is this - order GCMS notes once per month to see what is the actual progress of the file. Considering delays and eveything it would be a miracle to find out your progress by end of May. But considering that medicals will expire in September, i’m expecting that there are 8 more months for them to go. My VO is Ottawa and as per Immitracker they didn’t issue PPRs since last Summer. Overall I think it’s a matter of luck and I wouldn’t suggest anyone to believe in EE like into something guaranteed.