Hmmmm, what an interesting comment you make aaamr...but then I guess it is always easier to be blasé in a response and have a more "laissez-faire attitude" (as you put it) when YOUR application is already "In Process!!! But what I actually find more interesting and somewhat contradictory is, if you truly are approaching this all with a "laissez-faire attitude" yourself, why would you be micro-observing the process and checking your application every day too, especially when you say "it'll get processed when it gets processed"??
And, while I totally understand the service standard for Citizenship grants is still 12 months, that doesn't mean to say we don't have the right to ask questions when we see that there clearly are inconsistencies in the system!
On a final note, congrats on receiving your "In Process" status.....and best wishes and good luck to everyone else!!
The appearance of 'inconsistency' is just the result of people's wishful thinking ...
Back in the summer after C-6 passed, many people with just a few months left before reaching 1460 days had expressed in this forum, that they hoped the new rule would start after Oct or Nov, so they could send in their applications and get "faster processing"
That was definitely a possible scenario, since CIC could either
1. focus on finishing all the 4/6 applications first and then take care of the flood of 3/5 applications - sure that will guarantee better FIFO, but that would also mean some level of inefficiency since the entire staff would have to switch to a different set of procedures around the same time and create a big disconnect ... or
2. allocate a large portion of staff and resources to prepare and eventually work on the 3/5 applications, which could potentially be huge and unpredictable numbers, and for at least a few years to come, while leaving a small portion of staff/resources to continue work on remaining 4/6 applications until the last one is done, knowing there will be no more of them coming in after 3/5 started
Which one of the two makes more sense and is more efficient? It is for CIC to determine, and by how the updates from members reporting AOR, it seems like CIC is taking approach 2, which explains why some 3/5 people received AOR after just 2 weeks and some 4/6 people are still waiting after a month and half, and how the speed had slowed down quite a bit for the last few months before Oct, because much fewer people were working on them while the majority were preparing for the new rules
Another observation is: the requirement under the new rule is simpler, the form has reduced from 8 pages to 6, and the number of checks have gone down a lot, for example, the section about whether you had any probation/association with crime or terrorism/ used to have more than a dozen of 'yes' and 'no' checks that you would need to mark one by one, in the new form it is just one check box for all, which also makes checking the form/documents much easier and faster.
CIC is never known for transparency, but many people just convinced themselves that by applying under the 4/6 they would get faster processing - a few months ago I had mentioned the example of parents sponsorship applicants from 2012 were still waiting while many from 2016 already landed, but nobody would consider the possibility of CIC doing something remotely similar again...
It is really just a gamble, like many 3/5 applicants just convinced themselves that the police certificate requirement would change from 4 years to 3 under the new rule, and decided not to get it... until the first day the new forms were published, and they had to start applying for the certificates and wait for a few more months to submit their citizenship application... It is your responsibility to make that decision, and with all those unknown factors, especially with previous experiences dealing with CIC, if you make that decision based on expectations you convinced yourself of, then you would have a bigger chance of getting disappointed by the outcome... If you just think of it like buying lottery, then you would be much less irritated when the results don't turn out to be what you preferred.
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