My wife is applying outland from South Korea and her application went to Ottawa VO. She was previously in Canada on a student visa and it is still valid but we are living in Korea now. I got a request back in June asking for proof that I the sponsor intend to return to Canada which we did right away. At that time our background check on my CIC changed to this:
We are processing your background check. We will send you a message if we need more information.
So we are hoping the application will be processed soon. Her medical was just passed today. It was a long wait at the hospitals here so we had to send it a little late.