I just called IRCC since it has now been 57 days since my LPP completed (on Jan 30) and no Oath invite yet. The agent I spoke to was very nice... she said that everything looks good on my application and no further information/documents are needed, I just need to wait for next steps... no surprise there, as many other people on here have gotten the same response!
She did tell me that Vancouver is my primary VO, Sydney is secondary VO, and Vancouver is events VO (again not surprising since I live in Vancouver, but good to get the confirmation).
One piece of info that did surprise me: she said that the estimated processing time for my application is based on the current estimate, not the estimate given when the application was submitted. When I submitted on November 1 the estimate was 6 months, but now it is 9 months, and she said that 9 months is the time window that I should be using to determine if the processing time has been exceeded... in other words, I could potentially be waiting until August. Arrgh.
That directly contradicts what I had thought previously! Not sure if it's really true... But if that information is correct, it means that things will be generally slowing down across all applications as we move forward and the estimated processing times start to increase. That might explain some of the delays that people are now seeing. (Of course, individual VO’s do differ dramatically in how fast/slow they are—Vancouver seems to be one of the slowest—hence some people getting their Oaths much more quickly.)
