Don't worry about it too much. In the past, Sydney used to be only the primary intake office, and the actual processing would happen in the visa office (Ottawa or outland VO). So if one's application was in Sydney, it meant that the application was still in the initial stages, and once it transferred to VO, then that meant that the application was close to being finalized.Yahweh said:
In the past year or so, there have been quite a few applicants for whom almost the entire process has been done in Sydney. It's assumed that this is because CIC needed to rearrange resources to combat the application backlog. They seem more agile now with how files are handled and moved around, and it's not as much of a clear-cut linear process anymore. Because things don't quite seem to work the same way with CIC now compared to what it was before, it's increasingly difficult to draw comparisons with past applicants or procedures about how one's own case will be processed - it's annoying and confusing, obviously.
Also, nowadays the call centre agents don't seem to have very factual information in their hands. Someone in this forum said a few weeks ago (I wish I could remember who it was) that he/she spoke with three different agents within a week or so, and some of them said their file was in Ottawa, some said it was in Sydney.
So don't be too concerned about the location of your file.. you're already IP, which means things are moving, so I wouldn't expect it to take too much longer now.
