I got the Golden email!
I first received a message on my CIC account around noon on how to find a job in my field, then around 5pm I got an email with the passport request <3 Hopefully things will continue to go on well from here until our landing, but it's a big relief to know we are almost there to getting our PR status
Thank you to everyone and to those waiting, yours will come soon! It seems they are going through October AORs
My timeline:
ITA: August 2, 2017
AoR: October 8, 2017
EE Stream: CEC Inland for Me and husbando
IP 1 or 2: around first week of December (couldn't see my application for more than a month due to tech error)
PPR Request: Jan 11, 2018