Hello everyone!
I have been following this thread for some time. I personally never received a PT from ON, but my employer applied for a pre-screening on January 4th and we haven't heard back just yet. I contacted the MP a few times in regards to the delay in processing time and they tried contacting OINP with no real results. My latest conversation with the MP they forwarded me a letter that the minister sent to them on August 23rd. (That's when they announced the online system for the Entrepreneur Stream. I'm sure everyone here knows about it.) This is a direct quote from the letter sent by the minister to the MP.
"We are committed to improving the OINP’s application and business systems. My ministry
has implemented an online system for registering an Expression of Interest and applying to
the Entrepreneur Stream if invited. Additional online application systems for various streams
are being developed over the coming months."
The remaining of the letter has useless information about that specific stream but the reason I am sharing this with you this morning is to speculate. I believe the delays that are occurring because they are trying to develop this new system, train the current and new staff on the entire revamped version of the system, and needless to say they are understaffed to begin with. It's great news that they are developing these new systems to help expedite the process, but it's really a terrible timing on their behalf. The logical thing would be stop accepting applications, process all applications that they had to begin with, then finally modify the system.
Also they said that they are developing additional online application systems over the coming months, so in OINP time that would be one to two years. ;D
I'm sorry to hear and read the terrible circumstances that numerous people on the forum are going through due to OINP, but we are all in this together! Let's keep a positive attitude and support each other.
Help is on the way!