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All the October applicants waiting? Do you have dependents? And when was your medical pass date?

I have a dependent and I don’t know my medical exam pass date but my representative said I passed. I did medical exam on May 24, 2018. So many October applicants are waiting.
 
I am October 02-17 AOR applicant, AR is August 2017, still waiting for MR
 
Another news - The new processing time for the paper based application is changed 19 months to 20 months. I found this on cic website. I am 100% sure moving forward they probably gonna changed to 24 months. Seriously, Canada government need to hire more staff in order to clear the backlogs.
 
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I found this on another form.

For inland applicants (STEP-BY STEP AND EXPECTED PROCESSING TIMES):

If you said yes to all:
- your receipt letter (acknowledgement of receipt - AOR) will take about 2 months to come after the package arrived at the processing office (use the tracking code).

- Your medicals request (MR) will take about 9 months after the AOR.
- It takes about 1 month to update your profile after MR is received.
- *Background check* - After medicals are passed, it takes about 6 months to process your background.
- Final review - It may take about 1 month and passport request and return 1.5-2 months.

*This is the express entry processing time. EE takes ~6 months. The same time should be taken to process paper-based, but I believe they have more people working on EE.

Total average processing time:
2+9+1+6: 16 months
+ passport request and return take ~1.5 months = 17.5 months to get your PR.



The background check is the bulk of the processing time and it includes your whole life. However CIC is way more slow then this expected time.
 
I don't think CIC are finished with Oct applicants yet. Lots of Oct are still waiting

Oct 19, 2017, still waiting...
 
My friend got PPR yesterday!

MPNP inland, couple
AR 16 Oct
AOR 25 Dec
MR 11 Apr
Ghost up somewhere in March
PRR and DM 13 Apr

Good luck to those who are waiting!